Instapundit linked to this story about a Nashville cabbie named Ibrahim Sheikh Ahmed, who tried, for some unknown reason, to run over two American students with his cab after a religious argument.

Instapundit just wrote “And Tom Elia notes a surprising lacuna,” which apparently caused enough traffic to overwhelm Elia’s New Editor website. With the aid of RSS, I was able to dig it up, and here it is in its entirety. Disclaimer: Elia isn’t associated with us, or vice versa, I’m only reproducing this because it makes a valuable point and it has temporarily vanished from the web.

Title: Cabbie Runs Down Students in Tennessee, Part II

Last week, we linked to a story about a Nashville cab driver who attempted to run over two customers following a dispute about religion.

According to The Tennessean, the cabbie, Ibrahim Sheikh Ahmed, has a disciplinary hearing before the Metro Transportation Licensing Commission on Tuesday.

The story includes this tidbit: (emphasis added)

According to a police report, the three men had a conversation about religion while in the taxi that “became heated.” Shortly after the men paid Ahmed, he chased them in his van across the parking lot and over a curb, police said.

Metro police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said one of the students is Catholic and the other is Lutheran. Mumford said that Ahmed’s religion was not known.

Come on, are we really expected to believe that the religions of the two victims is known to The Tennessean, but that of the accused, Ibrahim Sheikh Ahmed, is not?

Good grief, how stupid.

Here are links to four relevant articles about Mexico, all four written in English.

The first is from the Cuban news agency, and is entitled “Mexican Congress: No More Servility to US” which reports criticism of Mexican President Calderon by Mexican opposition parties, who “denounced President Felipe Calderon’s foreign policy for strengthening U.S. security. ”

It’s typical for Mexican opposition politicians to accuse the president of being too subservient to the gringos, and of not defending illegal aliens strongly enough. But why is it bad for Mexico if the U.S. is more secure?

The second article
“Opposition Lawmakers Grill Foreign Relations Secretary” , reveals that some members of the Mexican Congress have discovered the SPP and don’t care for it either. According to Cuauhtemoc Sandoval, Mexican congressman from the left-wing PRD:

“We (Mexicans )are taking steps toward the integration of our economy, military, energy and security with the United States . And (the Mexican) Congress isn’t being invited to participate.”

That’s a pretty good summation of the situation from the point of view of either Mexico or the U.S . Interestingly, the opposition to the continental merger in the U.S. is usually from the right, in Mexico the opposition is on the left.

Then there’s a recent article in the Washington Times. The Times has discovered that immigration has bad effects in Mexico, which I have been saying for years . The Times article tells about women in Tecalpulco, Mexico, asking the U.S. to deport their husbands so they can return. [Mexican wives want U.S. to return husbands ,By Stephen Dinan, February 26, 2007 ]I have corresponded with the Tecalpulco women and wrote about them in a previous VDARE.COM article “How to Help Mexico- Close the Border!

That’s why you need to read VDARE.COM, to stay ahead of the mainstream media!

Another article, on the Inter Press Service News Agency, is entitled “Staple Foods at Risk From Free Trade” asks what will happen to Mexican small farmers when NAFTA opens up the floodgates of corn and beans from the United States. I wrote about this four years ago, here .

Bill Gates writes:

This issue has reached a crisis point. Computer science employment is growing by nearly 100,000 jobs annually. But at the same time studies show that there is a dramatic decline in the number of students graduating with computer science degrees

Now Bill Gates has had as much to do with creating this crisis as anyone. Basically Microsoft depends a lot on H-1b visas–and getting them at next to nothing. The closest they have to serious competition are the companies that produced the free Linux operating system. Now, if you look at the LCA filings, you’ll see something rather interesting. Red Hat and the related companies seem to produce an operating system that is less expensive-and by many measures better-but without dependency on H-1b visas.

If Microsoft “needs” H-1b visas, why can’t they pay for those immigration rights(the current market rate would be at least $100,000 per visa)? The reason is simple: despite all their financial and political muscle, Microsoft has never really been about innovation, and they can’t compete on a basis in which there is an honest accounting of all costs. Microsoft is utterly dependent upon practices like buying political influence to maintain its shareholder equity.

There will never be substantial interest in technical and scientific professions in the US if those occupations are more subject to the wage lowering effects of immigration than alternative occupations. Folks like Gates depend on mining the value of American citizenship to maintain their absurd net worth.

If you want a really competitive America, we need to think about how to reward real innovators-not businessmen like Gates that figure out how to work the system to their own benefit.

The Bill Gates article is being discussed on Slashdot.

Just when you think you have seen all the third world brutality toward women you can imagine, there’s this…

In China, a group of gangsters was recently arrested for killing women to sell the bodies as “ghost brides” for dead bachelors. In order to make the deceased males happy in the afterlife.

The men preyed on the superstitions of ill-educated farmers eager to ensure that a dead son was happy in the afterlife. It is not uncommon in rural parts of China for a family to seek out the body of a woman who has died to be buried alongside their son after the performance of a marriage ceremony for the deceased pair. [...]

Mr Yang chanced upon the trade in dead bodies when he paid 12,000 yuan (£800) for a mentally handicapped woman whose family hoped to marry her off for a price. The trade in women as wives is a common practice in rural China and a woman may be sold several times by intermediaries before meeting her eventual husband. [Ghost brides are murdered to give dead bachelors a wife in the afterlife, Times of London 1/26/07]

It’s bizarre that such activities occur when there are not enough women for the living, since Chinese have long been busy whacking millions of unwanted female babies and fetuses — to the point where by 2020, it’s estimated 30 million men of marriageable age will be unable to find a wife. Yet in parts of China, dead husbands get more deference than prospective live ones. And women are murdered to serve traditional misogynous beliefs. Again.

Incidentally, Chinese immigrants bring their disdain for women to this country, as shown by a New York Times article from 2001: Clinics’ Pitch to Indian Émigrés: It’s a Boy.

But Indians are not the only immigrant group to be offered sex-selection procedures so directly. Chinese immigrants in New York City can find a gender-selection clinic right in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where Dr. Robert M. Nyein started offering the Ericsson sperm-separation technique as part of his gynecological practice about four years ago.

Nearly all the Chinese immigrants who come to him, said Dr. Nyein, want boys.

Chinese in China can complain that they are allowed only one child under the national policy. But Chinese immigrants to America may have as many children as they wish, so their anti-woman culture is the only reason for them to expunge females.

Chinese immigrants may be hard-working and smart, but their variety of diversity leaves much to be desired.

This is from a New York City teacher’s blog, about some of the teachers who are really bad, and can’t be fired. (See The Worm In The Apple on some of the reasons for this.)I was struck by, among other things, the intra-minority prejudice.

It seems that members of minority groups are prejudiced against other minority groups, and since they don’t suffer from the famous “white guilt,” they don’t restrain themselves from saying so.

There’s also, if you read the post, an instance of a genuinely bigoted white teacher, and the fact that he hasn’t been fired shows how powerful the teachers unions are.

Let’s say a Taiwanese teacher of Chinese shouts in front of God and everyone “I hate Chinese,” and proceeds to denounce the majority of our Chinese-speaking students as shiftless commies. Let’s say she treats them as such and manages to stay in the system until retirement.

Maybe a teacher posts on the board an offer to write college recommendations for 50 bucks a pop. Let’s say that teacher is from Spain and regularly tells Dominican and South American kids they are ignorant and don’t know their native languages. Let’s say further this teacher makes disparaging remarks about their parentage, of a most unpleasant and vulgar variety.

Let’s take a teacher who teaches a foreign language, but is verbally incomprehensible both in that language and English as well.NYC Educator: Bad Teachers