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Buffalo Man’s Feud With Neighboring Mosque Leads To ‘Bomb Making Next Driveway’ Sign

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Oh, my! Is somebody making a hilarious All In the Family remake for the 21st century? In which the Jeffersons are actually a mosque and Archie Bunker gets back at them for their bright lights by hanging a sign out in his yard saying “Bomb Making Next Driveway”? That’s hilarious!…Wait, what’s that? This isn’t a socially conscious Norman Lear sitcom? It’s real life? Oh. Well, then that’s slightly less funny.

The story of the slightly provocative lawn sign comes from Amherst, New York, where Michael Heick has gotten fed up with the Jaffarya Islamic Center of Niagara Frontier situated next door to his house. Apparently, he’s been trying to get them to build a six-foot fence to block out their lights. They planted shrubs that will grow to six feet. That wasn’t good enough for Heick and the town wasn’t responding to his complaints so, obviously, it was time to accuse the religious center of terrorism.

From BuffaloNews.com:

“Heick said he put up the sign because he was frustrated with how the mosque and Amherst town officials have handled his concerns about the building, which opened in November.

‘The place is too close. I don’t care what people think. It doesn’t matter what people think,’ he said Monday evening from his front porch. ‘This is a way to get answers now. I get none from the town. The intent was to catch the eye of the people who I have a problem with.’”

Well, consider those eyes caught. And then some!

Of course, there’s an upside to all this. If someone’s pissed off at a mosque, you know what that means: Summer’s officially started! Yay!

(h/t Reddit, photo via Harry Scull, Jr. of the Buffalo News)

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  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Good for him, and if the Muslims don’t like it, they can move. America is a FREE country, liberals!

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAYBOOK 101.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/05/10-commandments-in-democrat-party.html

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    Oh, lovely.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    America is a FREE country, liberals!

    Also supposed to be tolerant and accepting as I recall.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    go Bills!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Jon, try as I might, I cannot understand why this story belongs on a media site. I mean I can guess.

    Perhaps this story would be more appropriate for your “media” site:

    Media Manipulation? The Majority of American Media Outlets Fail to Report the Yemeni Passenger Was Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as He Attempted to Storm the Cockpit Door – Video Examples of Newscasts From Around the Country

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/media-manipulation-the-majority-of-american-media-outlets-fail-to-report-the-yemeni-passenger-was-shouting-allahu-akbar-as-he-attempted-to-storm-the-cockpit-door-video-examples-of-newscasts-fro/

  • sonofthor

    The Mosque should put a sign in their yard…and it should say “Jeff Foxworthy DVD clearance – The Other Driveway”

  • ProObamaAgenda

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    Good for him, and if the Muslims don’t like it, they can move. America is a FREE country, liberals! DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAYBOOK 101.http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/05/10-commandments-in-democrat-party.html

    hey dumbass..if America is a FREE country like you say, why does anybody have to move????….the problem with assholes like you is that youre so full of shit youre pathedic…..your racism, hatred, xenophopia and religious intolerence has consumed you…..it was a mistake to ever allow people like you to come out of the backwoods of this country….now you wanna burn crosses in town square….loser lying republicans like you aint worth even pissin on if they are on fire

  • The Lantern of Truth

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    burn crosses

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    loser lying

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    even pissin

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    hatred,

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    racism

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    dumbass..

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    assholes

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    full of shit

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    youre pathedic

    You can tell the classy liberals by their eloquence .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    Good for him, and if the Muslims don’t like it, they can move. America is a FREE country, liberals!

    “America is a FREE country, liberals!”

    And how is that in any way incompatible with them building and then using a place of worship? Assuming they’ve not contravened any building regulations when building the mosque, and either own or rent the land on which it stands, then they are ‘free’ to worship as they see fit – just as you are free to do.

    Just because this pissy little whiner, Michael Heick, decides to put up a potentially libellous sign in his front yard just marks him out as an intolerant tool.

    So what, then, what’s your point?

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    “Also supposed to be tolerant and accepting as I recall.”

    —No, not really. Are you tolerant and accepting of fat people and smokers? I don’t think so. But let me give you a better example, I f-cking hate tattoos and body piercings, I hate them from the bottom of my heart. But I’ll fight for your rights to wear them. See? I can fight for your freedom while absolutely hating what you do. I’m also fighting for the freedom of a homeowner to stand up against Islam.

    “hey dumbass..if America is a FREE country like you say, why does anybody have to move????….”

    —I didn’t say they had to move, I said if they DON’T LIKE IT they can move. Frankly, I wouldn’t want to live next to a mosque, specially with their loud call to prayers. So what can I do? Either I can move or I can hang an offensive sign that will encourage the Muslims to move or tone down the volume. See? Freedom works.

    “the problem with assholes like you is that youre so full of shit youre pathedic…..your racism, hatred, xenophopia and religious intolerence has consumed you…”

    —Like you’re very tolerant of the Catholic Church. By the way, since when is Islam a race, Muslims come in all colors and explode in a wide variety of ways.

    “..it was a mistake to ever allow people like you to come out of the backwoods of this country…”

    —Chattanooga is not the backwoods, city slicker. Besides, this is America, nobody has to “allow” me to do anything.

    “.now you wanna burn crosses in town square…”

    —I’d rather burn Korans, thank you very much. Funny how that’s hateful yet it’s ok for the NEA to fund “piss cross,” a work of “art” where a crucifix is submerged in a vat of urine.

    “.loser lying republicans like you aint worth even pissin on if they are on fire”

    —Oh look, there’s Obama, why don’t you go get down on your knees while der fuhrer sticks his “stimulus package” where the sun don’t shine? Yeah, good Democrat, good Democrat, now go worship your Marxist Mulatto (or “biracial” if you prefer).

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    jdubbellu said:
    i missed that clause in the constitution, can you link?

    Ah, I see ‘The Founders’ chapter of the asylum has now joined us.

    The US Constitution is so badly out of date it’s comical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, what with it being nigh-on 240 years old now, there are plenty of things for which it makes no provision – a standing army, public roads, a police force, a fire service, public schools and libraries. The list is endless.

    And yet you accept all these things without demanding “a link to the part in the Constitution which shows this”.

    Can we attempt to discuss this in something other than bumper-sticker rhetoric and bubblegum logic?

  • justanotherconservative

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    hey dumbass..if America is a FREE country like you say, why does anybody have to move????….the problem with assholes like you is that youre so full of shit youre pathedic…..your racism, hatred, xenophopia and religious intolerence has consumed you…..it was a mistake to ever allow people like you to come out of the backwoods of this country….now you wanna burn crosses in town square….loser lying republicans like you aint worth even pissin on if they are on fire

    oh shut up.

  • justanotherconservative

    I would probably not be so brave to do something like this but I applaud the man who did. I am sick and tired of catering to the people who hate us and want us dead. If they don’t like it, go back to wherever you came from.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    jdubbellu said:
    ok genius, why dont you show me any social contract that says by being born i have agreed to be accepting of anyone…

    So what you’re admitting to is that you have no social responsibilities whatsoever unless they are set down in writing in the form a contact?

    Just stunning.

    Thanks for proving my point.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    If you listen carefully, you can just hear the banjos in the distance…

  • Liberal Tormentor

    ProObamaAgenda says….

    Put a sock in it, Michelle O

  • Pablo

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    ..your racism, hatred, xenophopia and religious intolerence has consumed you…..it was a mistake to ever allow people like you to come out of the backwoods of this country…

    You can’t make this stuff up! Next POA will be bitching about freeloaders and people who can’t write in proper English.

  • Pablo

    Bren Tierney said:
    So what you’re admitting to is that you have no social responsibilities whatsoever unless they are set down in writing in the form a contact?

    Just stunning.

    Thanks for proving my point.

    You seem to be confusing any responsibility at all with responsibility for everything. Rookie.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    “The US Constitution is so badly out of date it’s comical.”

    —Spoken like a true progressive, Woodrow Wilson would be proud of you. Tell me, is the First Amendment out of date? I’m sure you’d like to rewrite it so “hate speech” is banned. Never mind the second amendment, we all know you hate guns, but what about the fourth? Perhaps you’d like to live in a country where the police can search your house without a warrant.

    “So what you’re admitting to is that you have no social responsibilities whatsoever unless they are set down in writing in the form a contact?”

    —I can speak for him, but you ask a good question so I’ll speak for me. #1. There are no social responsibilities. #2. I’m only responsible for myself and for following the law. With that said, if it’s MY HOUSE and it’s MY LAND then I have a right to put MY SIGN with MY WORDS unless I happen to live in a HOA where I have signed a document that limits my rights.

    The problem with you progressives and liberals is you only like free speech when someone says something you like.

    Quitting Smoking Can Kill You: Chantix Sued after Man Murders Wife.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/05/quitting-smoking-can-kill-you-chantix.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    justanotherconservative said:
    I would probably not be so brave to do something like this but I applaud the man who did. I am sick and tired of catering to the people who hate us and want us dead. If they don’t like it, go back to wherever you came from.

    1) You have no proof that “these people hate” you/America – you’re just lapsing lazily into the Fox ‘News’ Borg mindset there, and

    2) “they should go back to where they came from” – and what if they were born in the US? To where would you send them, if the US is their country of birth?

    I’m waiting…?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bren-Tierney/627320549 Bren Tierney

    Pablo said:
    You seem to be confusing any responsibility at all with responsibility for everything. Rookie.

    Splendid – another drive-by unsubstantiated utterance from the “I know what I’d like to say, I just can’t make it make any sense” camp.

    This is like shooting fish in barrel.

  • Pablo

    jdubbellu said:
    Perhaps unsurprisingly, what with it being nigh-on 240 years old now, there are plenty of things for which it makes no provision – a standing army, public roads, a police force, a fire service, public schools and libraries. The list is endless.

    Hoo boy. Have you ever bothered to read it? Try Article 1, Section 8. And while you’re at it, consider the fact that police, fire services, schools and libraries are generally the purview of the States and local municipalities, not the Federal government.

  • JustPlayTheGame

    Hell with the muslims..I want to smoke in restruants again..FREE country my ass.. FREE to be screwed paying EXTRA taxes on my cigs while I am getting fat off McDonalds and BurgerKing..

    Hey, they have BRIGHT lights…he didn’t say move..put up a damn fence so he can enjoy the privacy he once had. He has just as many right..one being the sign in his yard..more power to him..

    Let’s go outside and smoke now..well, till they ban that too…as they have already started!

    FREEDOM!!!

  • Pablo

    Whoops, that was not jdubbellu, that was young, naive Brian. Sorry.

  • TerryDo

    Why do you have to make it a black against white thing, such as Archie Bunker vs the Jeffersons you are a race baiting commentator.

    Say it as it demonstrates:
    It is Americans vs. Muslims
    It is a Christians vs. Muslims
    It is the Peaceful nations of the world vs. Hateful war nations, who even hate and kill against their own people!

    What that sign is saying is don’t trust any Muslims, especially those who are the silent majority, it is bad enough, at least, when we can defends ourselves against known terrorists, it is the unknown sleeper cells that are troublesome.
    “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

    Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… That silent majority of Muslims, that do not speak out against the Barbarian Muslim terrorists are evil also.
    Not to speak is to speak. You silent majority of Muslims speak volumes by not speaking out…………

    Of course, that is just my first impression, I could be wrong…

  • winning

    Keeva said:
    Also supposed to be tolerant and accepting as I recall.

    Free speech is described in The First Amendment. I don’t recall any laws requiring people to be tolerant. However, it it’s tolerance you dig, check out these tolerant mofo’s:

    http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090816

  • winning

    Bren Tierney said:
    The US Constitution is so badly out of date it’s comical.

    The cool part is that there’s a mechanism for updating it. Most libs don’t care about that, they’d just rather try to convince people that it’s out of date.

  • misterbee

    TerryDo says:
    May 10, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

    Amen. Doctor Bonhoeffer has much to say to this generation of Americans. Too bad most of them won’t listen.

    “Of course, that is just my first impression, I could be wrong…”

    On the other hand, you could be absolutely correct. My money’s on the latter.

  • mlb

    What’s the problem?

    If they can shout “Islamophobia!!!!” to get attention to whatever they want , justified or not, why can’t he fight back with a statement just as inflammatory. If they don’t care about the truth, only the ‘headline’ then I say this man definitely has learned what it takes to draw media attention, otherwise we really wouldn’t be reading about it on Mediaite would we? Now if this was in front of a Christian church or a Jewish Temple would anyone care?

    Never mind that 3 out of 4 mosques in America, preach anti-western jihadist hate rhetoric… let’s not offend them, by speaking truth.

  • Mas Liberty5

    I think it is very interesting. That Islamic mosque has the right to be there, as per the 1st Amendment and private property rights. Additionally, the private individual has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression via the 1st amendment, as well as private property rights.

    Good for both of them for practicing their rights. Now let’s just hope some idiot government goon doesn’t step in and try to act like they know better.

  • Mas Liberty5

    Ben Tiery isn’t very smart. We live in a Constitutional republic that is the United States. It is states, and local communities that provide/ deal with fire fighters, police, roads, and public schools. Read the 10th amendment moron. Also, the US Constitution specifically mentions roads – post roads. Try to learn and read before commenting.

    And if you don’t like what it says then change it legally.

  • King of Scotland

    Phobia? Father O’Malley didn’t fly a plane into the World Trade Center. Rabbi Goldstein didn’t blow up the trains in Madrid. Bishop Spencer didn’t blow up the tube in London. Let’s see, there was the embassy in Africa. The Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, The disco in Bali. The Army base in Ft. Hood. The underwear bomber in Detroit. ALL MUSLIM.

  • King of Scotland

    Oh, and to Mr. Tierny, I didn’t realize there was an “expiration date” on freedom and liberty.

  • CLTstraightguy

    TerryDo said:
    Why do you have to make it a black against white thing, such as Archie Bunker vs the Jeffersons you are a race baiting commentator.

    Say it as it demonstrates:
    It is Americans vs. Muslims
    It is a Christians vs. Muslims
    It is the Peaceful nations of the world vs. Hateful war nations, who even hate and kill against their own people!

    What that sign is saying is don’t trust any Muslims, especially those who are the silent majority, it is bad enough, at least, when we can defends ourselves against known terrorists, it is the unknown sleeper cells that are troublesome.
    “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

    Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… That silent majority of Muslims, that do not speak out against the Barbarian Muslim terrorists are evil also.
    Not to speak is to speak. You silent majority of Muslims speak volumes by not speaking out…………

    Of course, that is just my first impression, I could be wrong…

    Excellent quote TerryDo.

    I’m really sorry, but Muslim’s, and Islam is not to be trusted.

    Where is the outrage in the Muslim community about these Morons who blow themselves up or worse force kids and woman by brain washing them that the West is the great satan and thus all the West are infidels (Which is mentioned quite often in the Qua-ran I might add- ibid – Not necessarily Westerners, but all who do not believe Allah is god and Mohammad is his prophet)
    Okay, there was a bit of hand slapping saying oh, these people are not Muslims, and this is not Islam, blah blah blah, but no World out cry from the highest Iman’s speaking on Al Jazeera constantly saying these idiots are not Muslims, and we apologize for their actions, they are not Muslim’s?

    And why not?
    Because the “holy Qua-ran, teaches that anyone who declares Allah is god and Mohammad is his prophet even in Jihad is a Muslim, and thus can’t be cut off.

    I’ve got news for the idiots who don’t think we have anything to be worried about when it comes to Islamification, if you look around the World you have plenty to worry about.
    When Muslims invade a Country with Rebels, they kill people that don’t submit, pure and simple.
    You want examples? Look at Africa!

    There is no distinction between a Muslim under Sharia Law, and a Muslim under secular law, they still practice the same religion. The word Islam it self has no tolerance for anything else, in Arabic it means quite frankly “SUBMIT”

    The only time Islam can co-exist with Western Culture, is when the dominant culture is not Islam originally.
    Case and Point – Malaysia – British Colony originally, and now Independent, but a rising Muslim population. Right now it is okay, with most the Christians and Muslims, however don’t even think that the Jewish population could set up a Synagogue! They are highly Anti Semitic and ‘no’ it’s not the Christians…
    The internet is monitored by the Muslim government and don’t even try and say something against Islam or you may find your property in flames.

    And do you idiots forget how they treat their women? Like dogs!

    Do you want that type of radical conservatism sneaking in here, forcing your girlfriend or wife to wear a head covering, and face veil or worse a burqa?
    I seriously wonder where the Liberal media gets its gall and foolish sympathies for a religion that goes against everything it basically believes in.

    Uh-uh, sorry Islam is not wanted in America, unless you are just Muslim by name and not by nature.
    Screw-Sharia law.

  • CLTstraightguy

    winning said:
    The cool part is that there’s a mechanism for updating it. Most libs don’t care about that, they’d just rather try to convince people that it’s out of date.

    Actually they just keep writing their own “Hate Crime” laws so that everyone who disagrees with them will be demonized or thrown in jail.
    Social Liberals care nothing for the Constitution nor much of what the Founding Fathers statutes or beliefs were in creating this once great Country.

    They don’t care about History, nor learn from it, they omit what conflicts against their agenda, and have no tolerance for boundaries, morality, or understanding why the second amendment even exists.

    These people would rather re-write history, or the news… as they have and continue to do and they call it progress.

    LOL. What a crock of crap…. Literally.

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