He was probably selling cursed frogurt.

Ice Cream Shop Owner Gets 15 Years for Funding Terror

Abad Elfgeeh, 51, was convicted last year of running an illegal money-transmitting business and structuring bank deposits to avoid reporting laws. Prosecutors alleged that at the behest of a radical Yemeni sheik, he sent money around the world from bank accounts linked to his tiny storefront in Brooklyn.

It also looks like the ice cream man will lose his “frozen assets.”

The judge ordered Elfgeeh to pay a $1.5 million fine. He also will be forced to forfeit more than $22 million, which would empty his frozen bank accounts.

Investigators were tipped off by the shop’s flavors, which included best-sellers like raspberry jihad, dhimmis & cream, and fatwa fudge.

Here in the United States it is perfectly acceptable for media to offend Christians on a regular basis with things like Kanye West dolled up as Christ, but other religions are definitely “hands off.” Surprisingly, European newspapers have run caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which have touched off demonstrations in the Middle East.

The caricatures, including one depicting the Muslim prophet wearing a turban fashioned into a bomb, were reprinted in papers in Norwegian, French, German and even Jordanian after first appearing in a Danish paper in September. The drawings were republished after Muslims decried the images as insulting to their prophet. Dutch-language newspapers in Belgium and two Italian right-wing papers reprinted the drawings Friday.

The response from Palestinian quarters has naturally not been peaceful.

"Whoever defames our prophet should be executed," said Ismail Hassan, 37, a tailor who marched through the pouring rain along with hundreds of others in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

"Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah chanted.

"If they want a war of religions, we are ready," Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.

"We are ready to redeem you with our souls and our blood our beloved prophet," they chanted. "Down, Down Denmark."

Hard to understand why Israel has such a hard time getting along with the Palestinians, isn’t it? Demonstrations also took place in Iraq, but they were far less vitriolic.

In Iraq, the country’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, decried the drawings but did not call for protests. Al-Sistani, who wields enormous influence over Iraq’s majority Shiites, made no call for protests and suggested that militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting Islam’s image. He referred to "misguided and oppressive" segments of the Muslim community and said their actions "projected a distorted and dark image of the faith of justice, love and brotherhood." "Enemies have exploited this … to spread their poison and revive their old hatreds with new methods and mechanisms," he said.

Who would have thought Europeans would ever be less politically correct than their American brethren on any issue?

Last week, we posted information on the death of Staff Sgt. Jerry Durban, Jr, who was from the Houston area, and was tragically killed in Iraq from an improvised explosive device went off near his patrol during combat operations.

Many of his family members, including his parents, still live in the area.

Glenn, a family friend posted in the original article the following funeral arrangements in the comments section.  Since that post has rolled off the front page, I thought it would be best to re-post on SSgt. Durban so that the information could be properly relayed:

Honored Military Funeral Services For: SSGT JERRY "MICHEAL" DURBIN, JR
who died a hero for our Country in Iraq on January 25th, 2006

WILL BE
HELD AS FOLLOWS:

Location:  Veterans Funeral Services
              10567 Veterans Memorial Dr.
              Houston, TX  77038
              281 272-9900

Visitation: Monday 2/6/2006 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Funeral Service: Tuesday 2/7/2006 at 1:00 pm

Many of you had posted comments that you wished you could send the family a card or letter.  I called the above number and confirmed with Veterans Funeral Services that cards or letters addressed to the family would be forwarded to them.

I also saw this comment left with the original post, from "Dolly".  It is so touching and so real, I think it bears repeating for everyone to see.

AS FAMILY TO OUR HERO MICHEAL DURBIN, I BELIEVE I SPEAK FOR ALL OF US TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS FOR  US. THESE COMMENTS ARE A GREAT COMFORT TO US JUST KNOWING THAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION REALIZES THE SACRIFICE MICHEAL AND MANY OTHERS HAVE MADE TO PROTECT EACH OF US.

BEFORE HE LEFT FOR THIS TOUR I ASKED HIM NOT TO GO HIS WORDS TO ME WERE "AUNT DOLLY, I HAVE TO THEY ARE DEPENDING ON ME AND I CAN’T LET THEM DOWN." HE IS A TRUE HERO SO PLEASE KEEP HIS COURAGE AND HONOR IN YOUR HEARTS,FOR BY THIS HE WILL TRULY LIVE ON.

WE LOVE YOU MICHEAL, OH SO MUCH!!
(THANK YOU GLEN)

I am assuming it is from "Aunt Dolly". Thank you Aunt Dolly for sharing with us the words of one of America’s finest.

SSgt. Durbin and all of his family, continue to be in our prayers in this trying time.

As listeners of KSEV’s morning show well know, host Edd Hendee is on his way back to Iraq in the company of nationally syndicated host Laura Ingraham.  Just a little over a year ago, Edd made his first trip to Iraq, where he witnessed the first elections and relayed all sorts of news and experiences back to us, including this journal entry about the death of Cpl Jonathan Bowling.

Edd’s post moved a lot of LST readers at the time, and it has reached much farther than its original audience.  The tribute to Cpl Bowling has been included in a list of the Best Posts of 2005.

Congrats to Edd, David and LST on this recognition!

Update: LST contributor Ree-C Murphey also made the best posts list with this Christmas moment.  Way to go, Ree-C!

The same mainstream-media madarins that refuse to show you this…

… are now afraid to show you this:

Michelle Malkin has a must-read round-up of the sickening cowardice being displayed by CNN, NBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and TIME magazine.

Shameful.

UPDATED– Thanks to a neighborhood outbreak of Chronarrhea this morning, I can confirm that the print edition of the Houston Chronicle– as well as the Chron.com story– fail to reprint the cartoons.

Now this is more like it:

A dramatic nearly hourlong police chase down Interstate 45 from Willis in Montgomery County to north Houston ended when the car crashed into a pickup. A Dallas man who was in the Neon died in the incident and two others in the car — a DeSoto woman and her 4-year-old daughter, whom police said the man had kidnapped — were injured. The woman and her daughter were taken to Memorial Northwest Hospital. They were released Thursday night.

[snip]

[The kidnapper] sustained gunshot wounds, but it was unclear whether he died from law enforcement officers’ gunfire, or from the impact of the crash…

It’s Friday!!

Have a great day!!!