Would You Get Into This Scumbag’s Cab?

I lived in NYC for 7 years and can tell you first hand how bad some of the cabs (and cab drivers) smell. But none of them smell even close to the cesspool of stink that is seeping out of Yousef al-Khattab’s yellow cab….and computer.

Originally reported on FoxNews.com, al-Khattab, formerly known as Joseph Cohen, is a New York City cabbie who operates an extremist Islamic anti-American Web site that features violent images — including mocking the deaths of GIs in Iraq — says he’s doing the country a service by “exposing the truth.” He lives in Queens and operates his sites under the “freedom of speech” excuse that many radicals regularly employ. While I may take issue with his images, videos, and words, I can not fault him for that since it is the same freedom of speech that allows me and every other blogger to voice our opinions against the puke, barf, hurl, blow chunks, upchuck, and projectile vomit of his words. You can read the entire story here and also see additional videos and images. What I find interesting is that his site seems to have been completely changed since the story came out.

Since the Fox story there is what seems to be a hastily thrown together Forum with a variety of posts arguing against each and every line of the Fox story. On both the main site and the forum there are long disclaimer statements with verbiage like:

We hereby declare and make absolute public declaration that revolutionmuslim.com operates under the first amendment right to freedom of religion and expression and that in no, way, shape or form do we call for war against the U.S. government or adhere to the enemies of the United States elsewhere….We seek, rather, to witness the imperialist ambitions of the United States government and especially the private tyrannies (corporations, financial institutions, military-industrial complex) that control it subside in their quest for empire and “full spectrum dominance” and we call for the relinquishment of autonomy and respect for sovereignty across the Muslim world to the people and not in the hands of the dictators, and authoritarian regimes this structure keeps in power by continuing to engage in foreign policy we feel is the root cause of all the terrorism in the world.

Interesting. To me, disclaimers like the one above are precursors for the dangerous and potentially subversive behavior that is sure to follow or be advocated. Is his site illegal - not yet. Should it be carefully watched - most definitely.