Michelle Malkin, Don't Soil the Good Name of Kwame James

I usually ignore Michelle Malkin, but something struck me about the "John Doe Manifesto" she recently posted. The manifesto is written for persons who are convinced that liberal Muslim terrorists are secretly running the country. The climax of this statement of delusion is:

I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.

In the build up to the condemnation of the Islamofacists who are running the community pool, the manifesto states:

I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.

OK, Malkin, this is too much. I will not let you drag former University of Evansville basketball star Kwame James, the chief tackler of Richard Reid, into your xenophobic paranoia. (Kwame, who graduated from UE in the same class as my wife, Ashlee, once complimented me on my Wu-Tang Clan T-shirt.) Actually—and this should interest someone like Malkin who has a complete disdain for immigrants—Kwame was born in Canada, grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, and was nearly deported shortly after his heroics in the shoe-bomber incident.

Read an excellent article on Kwame from an August 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated.

Picture: Kwame making a big defensive play against Indiana