{"id":260,"date":"2007-02-03T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/02\/03\/anti-muslim_bigot_goes_into_the_oil_biz"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:26:48","slug":"anti-muslim_bigot_goes_into_the_oil_biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/02\/03\/anti-muslim_bigot_goes_into_the_oil_biz","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim bigot goes into the oil biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6325319.stm\">The BBC reports<\/a> that an outfit calling itself the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrorfreeoil.org\/\">&quot;Terror Free Oil Initiative&quot;<\/a> has set up a filling station in Omaha, Nebraska, touting oil not imported from countries which &quot;support terror&quot; &#8211; meaning just about any Muslim country, in the Middle East or anywhere else.  At the moment, they only use American and Canadian oil.  (Clearly, they&#39;re only talking about one sort of terror.)<\/p>\n<p>A few paragraphs into the report and we find out who their spokesman is: Joe Kaufman, the bigot behind &quot;Americans Against Hate&quot;, a group which dedicates itself to smearing Muslims and Muslim organisations.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26284\">this article<\/a> on Front Page Magazine, he insinuates that Congressman Keith Ellison might be swearing to protect &quot;his friends, our enemies&quot; rather than the American public; you might like to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21832\">this piece<\/a> from last April in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/04\/shoddy_joe_kaufman_cuts_my_wor\">smeared a whole lot of Muslim bloggers<\/a> (not including me, but including a lot of those I&#39;m fond of).<\/p>\n<p>Happily, one of TFO&#39;s nearby rivals has cut their rates, which according to the BBC has led to a &quot;quiet start&quot; for the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that an outfit calling itself the &quot;Terror Free Oil Initiative&quot; has set up a filling station in Omaha, Nebraska, touting oil not imported from countries which &quot;support terror&quot; &#8211; meaning just&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windbags"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-4c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42140,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/42140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}