Prosecutor will not seek death penalty in Jewish Federation shooting

SEATTLE (AP) - King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng said Wednesday he will not seek the death penalty against Naveed Haq, the man accused of shooting six women - one fatally - at a Seattle Jewish center in July, because of the gunman's long history of mental illness.

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Somehow, I don't think it's a good thing that people should be publicly excoriated solely for insulting someone because their Jewish. Judith Regan apparently had a documented anti-Semitic incident three years ago. I wonder who hates her so much that they would dig this up?

Previous Incident Reported Involving a Fired Publisher

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The 60 Minutes piece on the International Tracing Service's Holocaust Archives was outstanding and very emotional. It's amazing how every survivor seems to have story of an indignity or terror they suffered that, while not unique to them, has perhaps never been told. One man told of how trenches were dug behind the barracks at one concentration camp to use as latrines and bodies that were not quite dead were thrown in them, forcing the inmates to urinate on their dying friends and relatives.

And yet Muslims all over the word are being taught that these things never happened.

I saw pictures of masses of skeletons, even of kids. I heard horrifying accounts of some of the people who had survived the terror of Auschwitz and Sobibor. I told my half-sister all this and showed her the pictures in my history book. What she said was as awful as the information in my book.

With great conviction, my half-sister cried: "It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed."

Hopefully, things like this will help - Muslims, Jews Hold Peace Meeting In D.C.
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Few signs of Christmas cheer in the Jewish state

One tiny place in the whole f***ing Western World where a Jew doesn't have to hear "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" and we're supposed to feel sorry for the Christians who decide not to live with their billion colleagues in the dozens of countries where Christmas is a national holiday. Give me a break. How about a story about how wonderful it is for Jews to have a place not to deal with it.