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Arthur Gould's older brother took part in the first ever match between Wales and Ireland © PA Photos
This weekend sees the 130th anniversary of the first ever match between Ireland and Wales. It was some time in the making, as the Welsh had sought a fixture as early as 1880 but Ireland - with something of the offhandedness which was to characterise their reaction to Wales in the early years - had not been very interested.
Had the challenge been accepted when first issued, Ireland would have been Wales' first opponents. Instead they were the second, following on from the 82-0 loss (in modern scoring equivalents) inflicted by England at Blackheath in February 1881.
It was a little more than a year on from that match, on February 28 1882, that Ireland at least acceded to Welsh requests and played them at Lansdowne Road, Dublin. Ireland's leading players were still not persuaded, perhaps informed by the Welsh debacle at Blackheath, of the importance of the fixture, and all but four of the originally selected XV cried off, with the result that they fielded 10 debutants. Among the comparative veterans were the captain Arthur Forrest, one of a clutch of former Cheltenham College students who made an impact on Irish rugby in this period. He was a smart forward - recalled by journalist Jacques McCarthy as 'not a very hard pusher, but he went fast...was a tricky dribbler and when he laid his hand on a man, well, that man was his'.
His pack-mates included secretary of the Leinster Rugby Union Francis Kennedy, playing alongside his debutant brother John and William Wallis, who was destined to add yet another line to the Irish game's strong family traditions when his younger brother and two nephews also won caps and noted by McCarthy as 'the first Irish forward that ever frightened a Scotsman'.
Wales were still more changed, with 11 debutants, plus two positional changes from the team which had played England. The team was also more representative of the real strength of the Welsh game than that pioneer XV, with six players from Newport and the first players capped from Swansea and Neath.
It was the first Wales team selected under the auspices of the Welsh Rugby Union, formed the previous autumn, but was to be memorable for much more than that. After the nilling at Blackheath, the man who went into the record books as the first ever Wales try-scorer was a forward, the 19-year-old Newport trainee solicitor Tom Baker-Jones, who went over in the 26th minute. He was also the first of many Joneses, albeit a double-barrelled one, to play for Wales and the first Welsh cap to be followed by his son, Paul Baker-Jones, who played a single match against Scotland in 1921. Not all of his achievements were firsts. He was to be the last survivor of this match, living to the age of 96 before dying in 1959.
Wales were to cross three more times. The scores came from Scottish-born Newport half-back James Bridie, Nantyglo (but later Newport) forward Tom Clapp and Rhymney threequarter Bill Evans, who had scored five times the previous week as the Welsh XV turned up with a resounding victory over the Midlands. It was Bridie's only cap - he was picked to play against Scotland a year later, but withdrawn when the Scots objected to Wales including somebody they regarded as one of their own. Clapp, one of many players born in the English West Country to contribute to the early year of the Welsh game, was by contrast to be a fixed point in the pack before emigrating to the United States in 1888. That made him one of four members of this Welsh XV to die abroad, but none had a more exotic trajectory in life than Evans who was to emigrate to Australia, become headmaster successively of Freemantle and Adelaide Grammar schools - all before he was 35 - then return home as a tramp, living rough in the countryside near his native Rhymney.
Two of the tries were converted, making them into the goals necessary for victory in this period, by Wales captain Charles Lewis, an all-round sportsman whose achievements in cricket and rugby have been recognised in a short biography (2009) by historians Bob Harragan and Andrew Hignell.
Ireland failed to reply, meaning that this fixture also goes into the records as Wales' first win. The Irish finished with 11 men. Two players - one of the Kennedy brothers and wing Joseph Atkinson, went off injured. Two more - not named in contemporary accounts - walked off in anger at decisions by one of the two umpires, WRU secretary Richard Mullock and William Goulding, vice-president and treasurer of the Irish Rugby Football Union.
Ireland remained unamused, and unconvinced by the value of their new adversary. Ned van Esbeck's history of the Irish game records that there was no match in 1883 because 'the leading Irish players were just not interested in travelling to play Wales' - the IRFU going so far as to pass a resolution that caps would not be awarded for playing Wales. When the fixture was resumed in 1884, the IRFU resolved that 'while Ireland would fulfil its commitment….Wales would thereafter be dropped from the international schedule'. It was not until 1887 that it became an annual clash.
If none quite matched the picturesque quality of Evans' subsequent career, several players went on to have distinguished lives. Among the Irishmen, Frederick Heuston's services as a military medical officer would earn him a CMG decoration, while two of the Welshmen ended up as knights. While George Morris got his by inheriting a baronetcy right at the end of his life in 1947, Hugh Vincent's title was earned through political services including the thankless task of opposing David Lloyd George for the Conservatives in the then Chancellor's rock-solid parliamentary division in the politically momentous year of 1910.
Ireland's family connections were matched by Welsh forward Bob Gould, who would have two younger brothers - among them Arthur, the Welsh game's first immortal - follow him into the national colours. Welsh forwards William Phillips and Tom Williams would make up the WRU's International Board delegation from 1901 to 1907 - Phillips completing 20 years of service - while one of the Irishmen wound up helping run another game altogether, as threequarter Thomas McCarthy was in 1884 one of the founders of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
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Daniel Denvir
Daniel Denvir is a Rhode Island-based contributing writer to CityLab and a former staff reporter at Philadelphia City Paper.
In April 2011, pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran in Gainesville, Florida, sparking deadly clashes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. One year later, he burned a Koran again, and no one paid any attention. That same month he came to Dearborn, Michigan, to protest in front of the Islamic Center of America, the nation's largest mosque. "Islam has one goal," Jones told the small crowd, and a much larger group of counter-demonstrators and police, according to the Detroit Free Press. "That is world domination."
The defiant evangelists held signs reading "I will not submit" in English and Arabic. The mosque, which encouraged its members to avoid the rally, beamed back a message on its electronic billboard: "Happy Easter." For Jones, this was a return trip to Dearborn, the heart of the country's most Arab-American metropolis.
"When [Jones first] came, they came up and recited the pledge of allegiance in front of City Hall," says Dearborn Mayor John B. O'Reilly, Jr., a talkative and dough-faced Irish-American Democrat. He's still incredulous. "Like no one had ever heard it before."
Dearborn's efforts to keep Jones away from the Islamic Center—he was at one point even preemptively arrested for failing to post something prosecutors called a "peace bond"—were earnest but likely unconstitutional. They were blocked in court. Plus, the man is truly relentless. Earlier this month, Jones helped distribute the now-infamous film mocking the Prophet Muhammed that prompted violent protests across the Middle East.
"The first visits by Mr. Jones were very costly," says O'Reilly, who engaged me on metropolitan transportation policy, local 19th-century farming practices, and Henry Ford's enormous Rouge auto plant before we arrived at the scheduled topic: people who dislike his city's large Arab-American population. "Our county prosecutor used a law," he concedes, "that perhaps stretched the intent to try to stop him."
Dearborn, a city of 97,000 surrounded on three sides by Detroit, is a must-visit location on 21st-century America's newly established anti-Muslim protest circuit. The entire city, right-wing critics erroneously claim, is subject to Sharia law. And they warn that the rest of America might soon be, too.
In June, Christian protesters made yet another appearance at the Arab International Festival. Signs threatened Muslims with a "LAKE OF FIRE." The street fair, which includes standard items like a booth where someone guesses your weight in exchange for a dollar, soon descended into chaos. It was all documented for YouTube: angry young people surrounded the crowd of evangelists, who promptly announced that they were being "stoned" as an avalanche of profanity rained down alongside water bottles and a variety of objects that weren't nailed down. Aside from one brief chant of "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), the incident elicited largely secular profanities, including blunt and colloquial entreaties for oral sex. Other cries were more plaintive: "What are you doing here? What is the point of all this?" Amid the chaos, someone, perhaps accidentally, turned the debate over foreignness and belonging on its head, yelling: "Go home! Do you understand English?"
Islamic law is a rather hard-to-fathom reality here. Whatever sensibility has allowed for the un-protested construction of minarets in Dearborn also permits a notable degree of All-American licentiousness. The city's main drag, Michigan Avenue, is lined with roadside temples to the commercialization of iniquitous flesh. And without an angry protester in sight. The neon signage on the enormous buildings housing the Pantheon Club and BT's Executive Club are among the city's most conspicuous landmarks. "If Dearborn practiced Sharia law," O'Reilly wrote in a frustrated but playful open letter to Jones, "would we have three adult entertainment bars and more alcohol-licensed bars and restaurants per capita than most other cities?"
Then there's the matter of the Dearborn Sausage Company, churning out its famous pork products across the street from a Southend mosque. Still, the idea that Muslims are imposing Sharia law here has become a staple in today's conservative movement, and in the Republican Party as a whole. It's not just strippers and sausage, they contend, but our very country that is at stake. Recall that in New York City, that supposed hotbed of cosmopolitan liberal tolerance, hundreds rallied against the construction of a mosque and Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. Though it was modeled on Jewish Community Centers, detractors labelled it the "Ground Zero Mosque." A debate contrived on right-wing blogs quickly became a front-page news story. Newt Gingrich joined a stampede of Republican politicians to announce his opposition.
"There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia," he said, in what was either an associative non-sequitur or a suggestion that we emulate the Salafi monarchy. The proposed mosque, he said, constituted a "demand [for] our weakness and submission."
Such pronouncements are an increasingly familiar part of what passes for mainstream political discussion in the United States. Protests against mosque construction have sprung up from Tennessee to California, and the number of Americans who believe that Muslims are intent on establishing Sharia law is growing. Former Congressman and anti-immigrant leader Tom Tancredo has occasionally proposed bombing the holy city of Mecca to demonstrate American resolve. U.S. Representative and House Homeland Security Committee chair Peter King last year held hearings on the "radicalization" of American Muslims. "Despite what passes for conventional wisdom in certain circles," King somewhat defensively assured the assembled crowd, "there is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings."
Michele Bachmann—who, like other Republicans, has accused President Barack Obama of going on an "apology tour" across Muslim-majority countries—warns that American judges have "usurp[ed], and put Sharia law over the Constitution." It was only when Bachmann suggested that an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that she managed to arouse bipartisan condemnation.
Here in metro Detroit, the animus toward Arab-Americans has been far less pronounced. In 2004, longtime residents complained when a mosque asked to broadcast the call to prayer across the small city of Hamtramck, a once-largely Polish community surrounded Vatican City-like by Detroit that has in recent decades drawn large numbers of Bangladeshi, Bosnian and Yemeni immigrants. But Detroit's much-publicized urban farms and a few stretches of hip new cafes notwithstanding, it is immigrants from the Middle East and Mexico who have revitalized portions of an otherwise severely distressed and deindustrialized metropolis. While many clamor for a walled-off Fortress America, Detroit's acres of abandoned, burnt-down and demolished homes welcome anyone willing to mow their lawn and pay taxes.
Debbie Schlussel, a right-wing blogger who lives in the nearby suburb of Southfield, is one exception to the local equanimity. "You will not find one mosque in this area that is not extremist," she tells me over kosher hamburgers. "They all are. You won't find a mosque here where the imam will denounce Hizbollah or Hamas or homicide bombings against innocent people in Israel."
Schlussel might seem extreme. After a right-wing terrorist went on a murderous rampage at a Norwegian summer camp in July, she charged that the campers supported Hamas. The Southern Poverty Law Center called her blog post on the subject "among the most coldly savage Internet postings of all time." Her post after Osama Bin Laden was killed, in which she wrote, "One down, 1.8 billion to go," might be a close second. But the political upheaval in the years since Obama's 2008 election have proven extremity to be a matter of relative degree. Schlussel has thus cast herself into the center of a national debate. And so, reluctantly, has Dearborn.
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The Debbie Schlussel famous for hating Muslims on the internet was, like most of her colleagues in the burgeoning anti-Muslim movement, a fairly marginal entity until recent years. A two-time candidate for the Michigan state legislature, Schlussel read articles from the Wall Street Journal and Commentary during childhood Sabbaths. In 1987, she was named "Outstanding Teenage Republican in the Nation." "I have a picture of her next to Ronald Reagan," gushed National Teenage Republicans director Barby Wells, thrilled when I called to ask about Schlussel. "She was so cute." Today, the SPLC calls her one of ten members of the "The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle."
Schlussel's passage from suburban lawyer to an expert on "radical Islam/Islamic terrorism" who "works closely with several Federal law enforcement agencies, consulting on fighting the domestic War on Terrorism" was shaped in part by family history and geo-political conflict. But it has been fostered perhaps more than anything by her belief in Debbie Schlussel. She is the protagonist of the political drama that unfolds on her blog, from anti-Semitic professors she says persecuted her in college to the in-box full of death threats she claims to receive every day.
The role she's invented for herself is an expert reporting from behind enemy lines near a city she calls "Dearbornistan." Schlussel began her study of Islam in 1998, when she made an undercover visit to the Islamic Center of America. Louis Farakhan, she says, preached for "jihad against all of America's Jews and Christians," and she wrote up the account for the Detroit News. Her blog, which started up full-time operation in 2005, is today dedicated to telling the world that Dearborn is under Sharia law, and houses a legion of Hizzbollah and Hamas sympathizers, along with terrorist cells. All primed to blow up Americans.
"I understood what my grandparents must have felt like at the beginnings of the Holocaust because I felt like I was at a Hitler Nazi rally," she told me. "After I did that, I started going more undercover to more of their events and writing more about it. And then 9/11 happened and people started paying attention to these things."
Nine-eleven. But for all the bold-faced language, Schlussel's footnotes are rather prosaic. The University of Michigan, she frequently points out, "spent taxpayer money to build Muslim foot baths." Worse yet? "In one case," she tells me, "they got rid of a disabled bathroom." She describes her alma mater as "Muslim-occupied territory."
"Walmart" is another count on her indictment, because it "has agreed with the Muslim merchants that they will not charge a cheaper price on pita bread and certain other things." The agreement, made after local store owners protested their "Always Low Prices," seems unrelated to an effort to install a global caliphate. But Walmart, bête noire to the left and entrepreneurial hero to the right, was cut no slack: "Welcome to Islamofascist, Price-Fixing Walmart," she wrote.
"We are changing [from] a country where there is a very distinct separation between church and state, to a country where that distinction remains but there is no distinction between mosque and state," Schlussel says. What might seem like small matters take on gigantic proportions on Schlussel's blog, where she directs a relentless and energetic focus on the Detroit metro area. Like a child staring at a Magic Eye book, patterns begin to emerge: today's Muslims are yesterday's Nazis, the people who slaughtered her family in Europe. Schlussel's grandfather fled Poland in the 1900s to immigrate to Detroit, and the rest of the family perished. The kosher butcher he opened eventually grew into the major wholesale company Morris Kosher Poultry.
"My grandfather drove out all of his competitors," she boasts. "He really made something of himself coming here, which is not bad for a guy who came here when there was no bilingual education. They didn't speak English when they came here. And there wasn't all of these welfare and entitlement programs to help them."
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Ismael Ahmed is one of the many local Arab-Americans who Debbie Schlussel calls an "Islamofascist."
Most everyone else, however, knows Ahmed as a former executive director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and an associate provost at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He hosts a world music show, This Island Earth, on public radio station WDET each Saturday. When I tuned in this May, he was spinning the legendary Michigan punk rock band MC-5.
xecutive Director Dawud Walid on radio station WNZK 690/680 AM in Southfield. Laila Alhusinni, a Syrian-American journalist who hosts Radio Baladi and Good Morning Michigan. A bulletin board at the Michigan Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Photos by Zoe Strauss
"I really think of this earth as an island, populated by all kinds of people," he tells me, in his consistently jolly and bemused demeanor. "And in it together, whether they like it or not. The idea of an island is kind of copacetic. But I'm also a science fiction fan," he says, referencing the 1950s book and film. "I love it when the spaceship is leaving earth and looking back... there are scientists of all colors and races working" and "you realize they're [from] the same planet."
Ahmed's parents were "salt-of-the-earth working people," raising him in Dearborn's Southend. "Pretty basic factory worker and housewife."
"I still remember my father telling me, 'you got a job at the Rouge plant and you're fixed for life.'" Ahmed did follow his father to Rouge after leaving the Army. But his family was far from typical. His grandmother, Aliya Hassan, was born in Kadoka, South Dakota, in 1910 and moved to Detroit after being sent off to an arranged marriage with an autoworker. Hassan, a Muslim and an ardent feminist, would be married and divorced a few times. She moved to New York and became a colonel in the civil defense, and later worked as a private detective. Hassan became an activist, organizing Egyptian seaman into the Seafarers International Union and leading a demonstration in front of the United Nations in support of Egyptian nationalism.
By the 1960s, Hassan served as a key intermediary between the Middle East and the growing number of African-American Muslims, leading a delegation to meet Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. She was a close confidante of Malcom X, helping to organize his pilgrimage to Mecca. She once hid him from assassins and later, says Ahmed, washed his body after he was shot dead. Moving to Dearborn, she became ACCESS' first director.
"She made ACCESS what it was," Ahmed tells me. "Open to women, and women's leadership in particular." Hassan schooled young activists like Ahmed in the nuts-and-bolts of organizing the Arab community, and building alliances across a sprawling and segregated metropolis with a gaping deindustrialized wound at its center. After leaving ACCESS, Ismael Ahmed went on to serve as director of the Michigan Department of Human Services under Governor Jennifer Granholm, and is now vice chair of the state Democratic Party.
"Al-Qaeda uses rap music, hip-hop, and punk to recruit members," retorts Schlussel, who led a smear campaign that some credit for denying Ahmed a post as an elected University of Michigan trustee. We're still eating kosher hamburgers. "Does that make them moderate? Just because you embrace American culture doesn't mean you're not an extremist."
The same goes for the Michigan Arab Orchestra, who I had just seen play to a packed house at the Detroit Academy of Music. "The Nazis," she tells me, "had an orchestra."
Local Jewish leaders, including Senator Carl Levin and Representative Sander Levin, have denounced Schlussel's attacks on Ahmed. But Schlussel characterizes the liberal Jewish majority as radical Islam's greatest enabler. "They're liberals first and Jewish maybe one-percent of the time," she tells me. "Look at the Jews who left Egypt and left slavery. That's only 20 percent. Eighty percent of the Jews remained slaves in Egypt during the Biblical times....Just because the majority—you know, the majority of people in America at one time supported slavery, and treating blacks as three-fifths of a human. That doesn't mean they're right." American Jews are in danger, Schlussel warns, like "the Jews of Germany in 1930. They felt the same way. And they were even more assimilated than the Jews here today."
Counterintuitively, the most normal, upstanding or boring Muslim behavior are the signs of greatest threat in Schlussel's world. A Muslim doctrine of dissimulation known as "taqiyya," she says, permits adherents to lie. Mayor O'Reilly calls this way of thinking a "Pinky and the Brain" theory of American Islam, citing the 1990s cartoon mouse duo.
"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!"
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When O'Reilly was a child, his Dearborn neighborhood was "so multicultural. Italians, Polish, Southerners," he says. "I'm going to a place where I know someone from my town, from my village. That's migration patterns everywhere."
The largely Christian early Arab immigrants, including many merchants and peddlers, first arrived in Detroit in the 1880s, laying the base of family ties, churches, bakeries, cafes and Arabic-language institutions that would welcome future immigrants. In the early 20th century, large numbers of Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians joined the global proletarian tide sweeping into the area's auto plants. The St. Maron Maronite Church was built by Lebanese Catholics on Detroit's East Side in 1916, and the area's first mosque opened in 1921 in the city of Highland Park, where Henry Ford first introduced the moving assembly line into automobile production.
"It is the sacred and religious duty of every Mohammedan here to be a good citizen of America and to learn the language of the country, without which we cannot understand each other rightly," Dr. Mufti Mohammad Sadiq, the first imam of the area's first mosque, told the Detroit News in 1921.
When Henry Ford moved production to Dearborn's vast Rouge plant, Muslim workers followed—though the Arab-American population was still largely Christian. The city's American Moslem Society, founded in 1938, is now the area's oldest continuously operating mosque. Chaldeans, Iraqi Catholics who often do not identify as Arabs, joined a tide of more well-to-do immigrants after World War II. After 1970, Muslim immigrants arrived from Iraq and Yemen, alongside many Lebanese fleeing that country's bloody civil war. The Gulf and Iraq wars have dispatched a new wave. The immigrants have found opportunities in a changing and troubled local economy, excelling in the sort of small business entrepreneurship that Jewish immigrants, and earlier Arabs, had skillfully managed a generation before. In Detroit, Chaldeans run most supermarkets and liquor stores, in part because they were tasked with handling alcohol in Muslim-majority Iraq. Lebanese own many gas stations.
"Arab Americans ended up here as soon as they opened the Model T plant," says Ahmed. "It was every type of immigrant you can think of—except African-Americans."
The absence of black residents in Dearborn is in some great part due to former Mayor Orville Hubbard, whose likeness graces a statue on the busy stretch of Michigan Avenue in front of City Hall. The statue appears to be a life-size replica. In the case of Hubbard, life-size seems diminutive. This man was an enormity, both physically and politically. A fat man, he weighed himself on an enormous scale outside his office. More notably, he railed against blacks and other minorities and became one of the North's most prominent bigots.
"Housing the Negroes is Detroit's problem," he once said. "When you remove garbage from your backyard, you don't dump it in your neighbor's."
Metro Detroit is profoundly segregated. When Jim Crow-style mechanisms failed, whites retreated to the suburbs, taking advantage of government-subsidized roads and mortgages. No suburb insisted on its whiteness so brazenly as Dearborn, a city where few of the many blacks who labored in Ford's Rouge plant could buy a home.
"I'm not a racist," Hubbard once protested, "but I just hate those black bastards."
The reputation outlasted Hubbard's 36-year reign, which ended in 1978. In 1986, the NAACP launched a boycott of Dearborn stores to protest a racially charged proposal that would have barred nonresidents from city parks. The 1980 census recorded just 83 black people living in town. But the view from Dearborn City Hall has since changed dramatically. Today, the Smithsonian-affiliated Arab-American National Museum sits directly across the street. Spanish-speaking voices emanate from a nearby Lebanese restaurant's kitchen.
An icon of bigotry in one of America's most segregated regions has become, somehow, a beacon for diversity. "We're the most racially polarized metro area in the country simply because people began to market themselves as fiefdoms," says Mayor O'Reilly. "We're not like them." Still, the mayor is careful with Hubbard. "He was a showman. He was a PT Barnum," he says. "That Keep Dearborn Clean" slogan, he concedes, "didn't start out about race, but it certainly became that."
"The people of Dearborn didn't universally buy that stuff. They liked the services. They liked the community."
Perhaps Dearborn accepts its Arab-American population because they have kept Dearborn clean—and relatively prosperous. Immigrants have restored it to what it looked like when O'Reilly was a kid. Retailers pack city streets and most homes are occupied. "Now with the Arab-American community here, Warren Avenue is back with these owner-operated shops," the Mayor tells me. "I go there all the time. I love it."
"The east side Warren Avenue was 80-percent vacancy and now it's 100 percent occupancy," says current ACCESS executive director Hassan Jaber. Jaber came to the U.S. from Lebanon during the civil war, though his grandfather lived in Michigan City, Indiana, throughout his childhood, working for Ford. "The city has seen the benefit of being a welcoming city."
"We got used to this," says O'Reilly. "It became a non-factor and a non-issue."
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When Barack Obama visited Detroit in June 2008, rumors circulated online, including through a viral chain e-mail: Obama had attended a madrassa during his childhood years in Indonesia. Obama, maybe, is something other than what he seemed. A Manchurian candidate. A secret Muslim.
Polls showed that 10 percent of Americans believed Obama was a Muslim, and the candidate went to great lengths to assure voters that he was not (which, of course, is true). He snubbed Representative Keith Ellison, one of only two Muslims in Congress, and he had not campaigned at a single mosque. And though the campaign later apologized, it was a big deal for many here when Obama campaign volunteers told two Muslim women in hijab that they could not stand behind the candidate during a speech at the Joe Louis Arena.
Obama's too strenuous denials of being a Muslim implied that there might be something wrong with being a Muslim. His campaign reflexively characterized the charge as a "smear." And so as America's hopes and fears poured into voting booths that November, America's Muslims became the targets of increasingly paranoid scrutiny. "It's a community that's been under siege," says Jaber, in his quiet voice. "It's not getting better. It's getting worse."
Anti-Muslim sentiment is, of course, not new. In the wake of September 11, anti-Muslim sentiment mixed freely with red-white-and-blue bunting and calls for military action. After the attacks, the U.S. government used the pretext of immigration violations to round up 1,200 largely Muslim non-citizens and detain them for months without charge.
But what's most alarming, and at first blush confusing, is that anti-Muslim rhetoric has skyrocketed since 2008. Arsons and bombings have targeted mosques, and recorded hate crimes against Muslims increased by 50 percent in 2010, the most recent year for which FBI data is available. Surveillance by federal and local law enforcement has reached scandalous proportions, including a vast NYPD spy operation that tragicomically extended to a group of college students' whitewater-rafting trip. This was uncovered by the Associated Press in a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 investigation.
George W. Bush may have violated civil liberties and invaded two Muslim-majority countries. But he also, in his most empathetic Texan drawl, spoke about the need for tolerance. "The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam," the president told his hosts at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. six days after the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, and less a month before the U.S. and Britain began the first bombing runs over Afghanistan. "That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace."
Paradoxically, a president leading what many considered to be a modern day Crusade may have held the far-right in check. This is something that Obama has been unwilling and unable to do. In fact, Obama's presidency has become the organizing principal for a brand new form of hate. The number of Americans who think Obama is a Muslim has increased since his election, reaching a high of an astonishing 17 percent. At times, polls have shown as many as 46 percent of Republicans to think so. One 2011 survey found that nearly half of all Americans believed that Islam is incompatible with our country's values.
In 2010, Obama called off a planned visit to the Sikh Golden Temple on a trip to India, allegedly because of concerns that he would have to cover his head with a cloth to enter. Such a photo could be Exhibit A for his most zealous prosecutors. "What's missing in the Obama Administration is the courage to even make statements made by the Bush Administration," says Hassan.
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When Mayor O'Reilly's grandfather arrived in Detroit, immigrant workers crowded into the small homes on Dearborn's Southend, across the municipal line from Southwest Detroit. "The Southend of Dearborn is the port of entry," says O'Reilly. "And Southwest Detroit. They are the ports of entry for each new group of immigrants." Today, a large portion of Southwest Detroit is known as Mexicantown [which I reported on for an earlier story], and the Southend is largely populated by working class Yemenis.
The sprawling headquarters of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) is here too, in the shadow of Ford's iconic Rouge factory, which, along with rail road tracks and a freeway, separates the neighborhood from the rest of Dearborn. It was founded here in 1971, when the neighborhood was largely Lebanese, Yemeni, Palestinian and white. Notably, it was largely Muslim at a time when most of Arab Detroit was Christian, and most were just referred to, erroneously or not, as "Syrian." It was a neighborhood that Mayor Orville Hubbard wanted torn down.
In 1953, the Dearborn City Planning Commission began a decades-long effort to rezone the Southend for industrial use, and did everything it could to get people to move out: it actively neglected city property in the area, harassed residents, declared that FHA insurance was not available to homeowners, and generally just pressured people to sell their homes. The number of residential properties in the neighborhood plummeted by 25 percent between 1960 and 1970.
"When I came back from the Army they were tearing down my grandfather's house, which was right next door to us. And all of the urban renewal became very personal," Ahmed says. "It wasn't just Arab-Americans, it was Southern whites and old Italian workers. In many ways it was an activist neighborhood, so growing up there you talked to people who had organized steel plants and the UAW."
"The Syrians," Orville once said, "are even worse than the niggers."
An organization that came to be known as The South East Dearborn Community Council formed to fight Hubbard, and a federal injunction finally blocked the project in 1973. Businesses and churches, and 250 homes, had been demolished.
The urban renewal that threatened the Southend was replicated in working class, and often black, neighborhoods around Detroit and the country. The federal government had subsidized the highways and mortgages that helped white people move to the suburbs. Factories soon followed, rendering entire cities the ghettoized preserve of the poor. Municipal government's response to decline was to make cities more suburban, undertaking massive development projects and highways that incited widespread protest.
In Dearborn, Hubbard's effort to destroy the Southend provided the Arab community, which had long been active in the union movement, with its first major opportunity to organize as Arab-Americans. "That time was the tail end of the Vietnam War," says Jaber. People like Ismael Ahmed "came back radicalized by what they'd seen [overseas], and wanted to put their energy into making sure the community is safe, and making sure people have the same opportunities."
Today, many Lebanese have moved to middle-class neighborhoods or to more prosperous suburbs. ACCESS, which began in 1971 as a storefront operation teaching English and helping immigrants fill out government forms, has remained. "We made a decision to stay here," says Jaber. "Symbolically, this is where we started and this is where we continue to make a commitment to the most vulnerable communities."
ACCESS has an $18 million annual budget that funds after-school and employment programs, work to stop domestic violence, and public health services ranging from diabetes and breast cancer screening to HIV-testing, including a program that targets gay youth. About one-fifth of their clients are African-American. One afternoon in May, hundreds of children, largely Yemeni, thronged the organization's parking lot for something called Fun Day: dunk tanks, moon bounces, and food.
Sixty-six-year-old Abdul Malik, a retired Chrysler worker, boasts that he is a grandfather of 26. "Honestly, I came to the United States to take care of my family. America take care of me. I love America."
"It's no big deal for me," says an African-American Army sergeant from Dearborn Heights, in uniform. He is visiting with his daughter, who attends a nearby school. "They're all Americans. You learn different cultures, new stuff."
A group of Yemeni-American teenage boys wear another American uniform: baggy jeans and backward hats. I tell them that I'm writing about immigrants. "Immigrant? Yo immigrant!" They are pointing at 20-year old Nasser Obad, the one foreign-born among them.
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Debbie Schlussel has an answer for even the most seemingly damning question. If ACCESS is attempting to propagate Sharia law, what of the Chaldean staffer I met wearing earrings and and a necklace shaped like a cross? "Listen, there are some Christian Arabs who are water-carriers for Islam," she tells me, near the end of our hamburger lunch. "They are butt-kissers to Islam. It's just plain and simple. They are dhimmis. That's the Islamic word for the status of non-Muslims."
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Discussion about nationality moved to Forum:GTA IV Nationalities.
Dimitri IS spelt Dimitri, right? Because it was spelt with the first 'I' missing in all instances it was in this article :\ Ess-Tee 08:31, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
- Dimitri is correct. Thanks for fixing that! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 08:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
- No worries, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't wrong through my entire GTA4 gameplay haha. Ess-Tee 08:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
I removed the part where it said the availibility of romans special is random, because it isn't, you can use it any time as long as you haven't used it recently. "Blake Smith2000"
I think it's worth mentioning romans voice is heard in the ballad of gay tony trailer.
Place Of Birth
On the Roman Bellic main page, it says that his place of birth was in Yugoslavia, but i heard in one of the earlier missions that he was born in Broker. Can anyone clarify this or something?. GSF4L 2 October 2009, 22:36 (UTC)
oh no roman said he was BORED of broker not born
- He was born in the same area as Niko... Roman spent the entire game talking about living a new life in America. That should be a clue that he was never born in America.--Spaceeinstein 22:55, October 2, 2009 (UTC)
Is there a cannon version of GTA IV, I wanted to know, is Roman or Katie's death cannon? T-888 15:41, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
both are cannon there cannot possibly be a cannon ending if there is two Roman's death=Cannon Kate's death=Cannon Aliens abduct Little Jacob=Cannon see there are no "correct" deaths or non deaths and someone needs to change the part were it says his death was non-cannonical.
Nope Rockstar has announced the Revenge ending to be cannonical. In the ballad of gay tony Spoiler: when bulgrins plane explodes it can be seen in the background of the revenge ending, and in the deal ending it is not seen. Showing that the DLCs follow the revenge storyline. Also I'm not sure but I think Rockstar relesed a statement that it was cannon.
- That's complete and utter bullshit. And please sign your posts. --MOB-4-Life 21:27, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
- Personally, I think the Revenge plot line is completely the logically choice. Niko's been screwed over not just once, but several times throughout the plot line by Dimitri. My first time playing through, I immediately went Revenge on this basis: it's not really revenge, it's self-preservation. You know Dimitri is gonna try something, so why work with him? I find the real problem with IV is the fact that towards the end of the game, you're worth usually around $800,000? Unless you go out of your way to constantly make money with no regard to story line. So even at $800,000 Niko still thinks he "needs the money." As the player, I looked at the $800,000 and said "You don't need the money, do the RIGHT thing, get rid of Dimitri and worry about money later." That's my rationale. / Szebrine 19:08, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
It says in Niko Bellic's War Story that it's not known if roman served in the army or not I think NOT because roman is such a Pussy because 1.He runs away from the Albanians in the mission when you get a mobile phone 2.He doesn't defend himself when Dardan's gang attacks him and breaks his computer. 3.He does nothing about Vlad banging Mallorie behind his back 4.He hids in a dumpster in Crime and Punishment and also screams when tied up in the basement of Mikhails house 5..He gets trapped in the trunk of his car in Roman's Sorrow and cries when his home gets burned down and 6.He shits himself when he gets kidnapped in Roman's Holiday Do I need to go on overall I think that he is not cut out for an army career so I think he was a civilian in the bosnian war. while Niko served in the army with the rest of the boys in the village.Andrew nicholson 18:32, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
Could anyone get a pic of him in his Suit, either from Gay Tony or the Wedding, just be good to get a few more pictures of him Zachariah Zuan 00:38, August 31, 2010 (UTC)


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Ryan O'Reilly of the Avalanche on Tuesday was named a finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy.
The trophy is awarded to the NHL player "adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability."
The other finalists for the trophy are Martin St. Louis of the New York Rangers and Patrick Marleau of the San Jose Sharks. St. Louis has won the trophy three of the past four years and been a finalist in eight of the past 10.
O'Reilly, 23, became the first player since Butch Goring with the Los Angeles Kings in 1977-78 to have two or fewer penalty minutes in a season, with 80 or more games played. O'Reilly was assessed one two-minute minor on the season.
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Buzz Feed reported today that Obama secretly signed a long awaited executive order on Cyber Security, then issued an embargo to all news organisations NOT to cover the developments.
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Shortly before 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, the White House emailed reporters that President Obama had signed a highly anticipated Executive Order aimed at protecting cyber security.
The order — setting up new programs aimed at stopping online espionage and terrorism — was already the law of the land, signed by the president. But it was also secret.
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"We wanted to release the EO early on an embargoed basis because the subject matter is complicated and we knew you guys would have questions. It seemed more helpful for the press corps than sending it concurrent with the speech." the email said.
Vietor added "this isn't unprecedented. Take for example sanctions Executive Orders. They are signed one day, go into effect at midnight but are not released until the next day."
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The development of a Cybersecurity Framework. The Executive Order directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to lead the development of a framework of cybersecurity practices to reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure. NIST will work collaboratively with industry to develop the framework, relying on existing international standards, practices, and procedures that have proven to be effective. To enable technical innovation, the Cybersecurity Framework will provide guidance that is technology neutral and that enables critical infrastructure sectors to benefit from a competitive market for products and service
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Establishes a voluntary program to promote the adoption of the Cybersecurity Framework. The Department of Homeland Security will work with Sector-Specific Agencies like the Department of Energy and the Sector Coordinating Councils that represent industry to develop a program to assist companies with implementing the Cybersecurity Framework and to identify incentives for adoption.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Honk if You Love ....
The wheelchair has only amplified this. I tire and sometimes have to stop when pushing myself from one place to another. Every time I look to park somewhere out of the way, I don't want two footers to vault over me. Joe's even worse about this, he'll grab my chair and move me while I'm paying for something so that someone can get more easily by. We've, um, discussed this a number of times.
Then yesterday we went to Tesco's to do some shopping and all the disabled parking bays were taken. We managed to find parking fairly close to the store but the parking bay was very narrow. I got out of the car and stood, bracing myself against the car next. Joe managed to get the chair out of our hire car and off we went.
On our way back the parking lot was pandemonium with way too many cars looking for way too few spaces. There was no way that Joe could get the wheelchair back in the car. So I waited while he backed the car up and got it parked so that I could get in and the wheelchair could be loaded. I got in easily but Joe took a few seconds to get the feet off the chair and loaded. Then he was folding the chair to put it in.
It was evident for all the world to see that we had parked in an available spot, that the spot wasn't wide enough to get the chair in, and there were people honking. Honking. Angry honking. Hurry up you are in our way, honking. Honking displeasure. Honk if you love yourself - honking. I could see Joe's blood pressure rise and his coordination fall. He was rushing so much that he couldn't get the chair in the back door.
Now the cars are screaming angry. With a huge shove Joe got the wheelchair into the back and then hopped in the car and drove away. He was upset that WE were in THEIR way. I was upset that THEY were in OUR way. Their attitude and their anger was in the way of us just getting about our business.
Is anyone so important that waiting for 5 minutes for a wheelchair to get put into a car is a bother?
What's happened to manners and civility?
Ah, the joys of travel.
13 comments:
- BenefitScroungingScum said...
I'm sorry you've had that experience. It sucks. Though, I'm sad to say it's a fairly typical experience of being disabled in the UK, there are never enough disabled parking bays, often they're filled with people who are perfectly able bodied and who could care less that they've taken up a much needed space. I recently went to Germany and just couldn't believe the difference in the way things were organised there for disabled people, so much space, and so well thought through!
We are though a very small, overpopulated island with not enough space as it is, but I don't think that excuses the lack of planning on these issues, to me it always seems like nothing works right for people with additional needs as there has never been anyone with disabilities sufficiently involved in the planning. Sigh.
That aside, I really hope you're having a good trip, I tend to find that irritated, honking horns aside, people can be incredibly kind and helpful here, it's just shown in a less overt way to the American or Canadian style.
Will you be over in the North West of the UK at all, and how long are you guys here for? I'd really love a chance to come hear you speak, or even just say hi! Bendy Girl
- 19 November 2007 at 06:37
In the states it seems the opposite as far as parking goes. Plenty of disabled parking spaces available. There are of course plenty of places where access is problematic or downright non-existent but I think ADA has, at least on the surface, scared most businesses into making adaptations. Of course there are ramps that go to nowhere and the disabled student center doesn't have an accessible front door---but on the surface, it's all okay, right?
- 19 November 2007 at 08:45
- Kei said...
Sadly, manners and civility have taken a back seat to the hurry hurry hurry me me me attitudes that many people possess. Whenever someone has apologized for taking so long in line, or pulling out of a space, my husband tells them, "That's okay... if I was in that big of a hurry I'd have left sooner" It usually puts a smile on someone's face.
What bugs me is if I'm patiently waiting for someone to pull out of a space and the people behind me start honking at me!!!
- 19 November 2007 at 09:13
- Myrrien said...
You made the mistake of getting in the way of angry shoppers, I think it has to do with all that forming queues and then having to part with cash.
I do hope the rest of your stay is a lot better, we are all looking forward to hearing you speak at Reid MacEwan over the next few days.
- 19 November 2007 at 13:16
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience driving on UK roads!
But I have to share something with you! A good friend of mine makes a conscious effort to do at least three kind acts while behind the wheel of his car each day. It's like a payback thing for all the bad things he had done in his life! On hearing this I try to put in practice this thinking myself while behind the wheel of my car.
Amen for conscious awareness on the roads!
- 19 November 2007 at 14:23
- rickismom said...
Yes, I believe that often overweight people are keenly aware and try not to take up space. Below is a recent quote from my blog. And,frankly I am surprised at the reaction you received. I live in a place where EVERYONE is in a hurry, but I can't imagine such a reaction... Are you sure that they realized that it was a wheelchair?
from my blog:
"Yesterday I was on the bus, and as I boarded, I automatically checked first to see if the one slightly-wider-than-most-seat was available. It wasn't, being occupied, ironically, by a waif-like wisp of a teenager. Of course. The single seats were taken as well. I like them, because even though they are a bit of a tight fit, I can relax when seated there, knowing that I am not infringing on anyone else's space. So I choose to stand, not feeling comfortable to squeeze in next to someone else."
- 19 November 2007 at 16:42
- Jeff said...
Sorry to hear about your frustrations in the UK. I spent 4 years there and found them all to be really great folks and usually not in a big hurry.
Hang in there on your trip.
- 19 November 2007 at 17:23
- valleegurll said...
I live in a very small town and the grocery store has 4 spots labelled as "disabled parking". A number of years ago the organization that I work for had purchased our first wheelchair van. It was huge! A Dodge extended length, extended roof 3/4 ton van...insane consumption of fuel...you get my point. Well to park this beast - you needed to park on the end parking spot with the passenger side facing out because the hydralic lift was on that side. Numerous times we came of the grocery store to find that someone parked on the end where there was no parking and blocked us in - The van had a sign that read no parking within 3 meters - but seriously how many people pay attention to that! So for many weeks I would leave my friend with her groceries outside the door of the grocery store and bring the van to the doors of the store...block the entire entrance while I lowered the hydralic lift - which is extremely slow in the winter cold, bring her into the van and then groceries! After a couple of weeks the town folk clued in. This van needs space!! My intention was not to attract attention to my friend and I don't believe it ever did - however I feel that there are times that if you are not literally in peoples faces or spaces they are just clueless to the needs of those around them.
FYI - We now own a compact mini van converted with a rear entry ramp...Heavenly to drive, fuel and park!
- 19 November 2007 at 22:28
- Kay Olson said...
I've had that discussion with friends and family too. They think I'm in the way. I've learned over the years that this will mean, by nature of the space a chair takes and the lack of space allowed for people in chairs, that I will ALWAYS be in other people's way unless the mindset is changed and my friends and family recognize that I deserve the space I take up just like anyone else.
- 20 November 2007 at 01:13
- Naomi J. said...
Yes, I get this kind of reaction a lot in these sorts of situations. I'm sorry to hear you experienced worse treatment in the UK than in the US - but I think our level of disability awareness, and approach to disability equality, is much poorer here than in your neck of the woods. I hope that will change - but I don't see attitudes changing particularly fast.
I, too, hate being 'in the way'. I'm trying to learn not to apologise for it any more, though. I take up more space because society can't organize shops and roads and parking well enough to accommodate disabled people. At least, that's how I'm trying to think...!
- 20 November 2007 at 03:09
- Elizabeth McClung said...
I'm not sure whether to say "welcome to the UK" or "Welcome to Tesco's" - probably the later - you don't slow down the people who want to get to tesco's on a weekend - In 8 years living the UK, I never once heard a car use the horn to, you know, notify someone of something for safety, it was always, "honk" for "I think you can go faster", "honk" for, "Pedestrians might have right in the Drivers handbook but I'm going to run you over if you don't get out of my way!" and "honk" for, "I don't care if this is a narrow road, YOU back up becuase I can honk more than you can."
Good luck!
- 20 November 2007 at 14:54
My son is still in a stroller, and although the sentiment of your post is much more serious, I can relate to your frustration over the attitude of impatient strangers. I can't tell you how many people have raced in front of me to board the city bus and Skytrain. Or how many cars have turned dangerously close to me and my son (in stroller) while I am crossing at a set of traffic lights. The best one yet is having to struggle opening public doors because the man in front of couldn't wait a few seconds to hold it open so I could take over...Some days, I just want to scream. But I don't. I smile...okay, grimace...and keep going.
- 20 November 2007 at 20:39
"Is anyone so important that waiting for 5 minutes for a wheelchair to get put into a car is a bother?"
Is anyone so important at all to wait for a fellow human being? regardless of gender, ethnic origins, disability or lack thereof! We are an impatient society!! GRRR!
- 24 November 2007 at 21:53


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Thursday, 13 August 2009
When the World Turned its Back
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Thursday, 6 August 2009
Baltimore, More, More!
Adam wore his hair slicked back for this set and I've decided that it's not quite Elvis, as it's not as smooth, but rather a punked Elvis with a fauxhawk tail. The eye makeup looks a bit darker too, more indigo than turquoise. I'm still praying he steers well clear of mullet territory. In 'Baby' WLL he didn't throw himself around quite as much at the start but there was no stopping those legs that were shaking around raring to go, and those hips which got him into full flow with a great thrust-and-chop action. He was the cocky snarling rockstar giving the audience disdainful looks and they lapped it up with enthusiasm, eager for more. There was still a fair amount of playing with his earpiece though, and I'm surprised that after all this time, the sound issues haven't been fully ironed out. He laid any worries about his voice to rest and maintained its power with an impressive run at the end.
His voice sounds beautifully rich and gritty in his lower register in this recording of Starlight. I don't know if you can relate to this, but hearing the timbre makes me want to sink my teeth into it - does that sound really weird? It seems that Adam's voice has a synaesthetic effect on me and when I hear it, the closest description I can come to is that it's like taking a very full bite out of a juicy peach, or biting a soft-ish piece of this specific, slightly grainy chocolate praline, and melting it in my mouth. Anyway, he left out the full-force note again in MW and there were more bra antics during Slow Ride where a flying pink one narrowly missed hitting Allison and she creased up. She left it up to Adam to deal with the said bra. There was another 'Ooh!' and a white bra during the Bowie medley, where he generously dished out the high notes and was really going for it with the dancing. The song ended with a very long descending run with accompanying hip swivel for good measure. We'll have more of that please.
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Easy in Washington DC
What voice problems? What cold? In 'Baby' WLL, his voice was back on show in its full magnificence, powerbelting out those extended high notes with ease. Adam's hair has been looking fluffier and tuftier as it's been growing out, reminding me of the final Upright performances. From what I can gather of Starlight and MW, he sailed through them flawlessly and there were plenty of smiles all around during Slow Ride. I particularly liked his dismissive expression during 'Look at those cavemen go' in the Bowie medley as he injected more drama and attitude to Life On Mars. He swooped down to pick up and fling yet another bra, magenta this time, into the audience and those hips really went for it. In this recording, I love the timbre of his voice as there seems to be a little more rock grit to his belts, and I'm happy he didn't seem to hold back.
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Greensboro Opens its Back Door
There were quite a few worried fans going into this and a few more worried fans going out with concerns about Adam's voice as he seemed to ration his stratospheric high notes. 'Baby' WLL finally saw the lyric 'I wanna be your back door man' with all its innuendo. From the video, he sounded a little hoarse during Starlight and a couple of notes appear to have been shortened. No problems during MW, although again the power belt was missing as he went up into falsetto instead. Despite having heard it so many times, I think it's a good choice to include it in the set; I see it as the song where he rests his voice a little as it's the least taxing. Slow Ride was another chance to have fun and improvise where he and Allison circled each other and the Bowie medley was energetic, ending on an extra long gyration instead of his trademark high note.
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Chewing over Charlotte
'Baby' WLL was another stunning performance with stellar high notes and an incredibly long riff at the end. The video for Starlight is crystal clear, and you can hear some feedback at the beginning which is followed by Adam fiddling with his earpiece. Adam is thrilled to be on stage performing with his warming smile. Again, the video for Mad World is beautiful and for the first time during the tour, I could clearly hear his silky smooth voice singing at just above a whisper where he chose to omit his belting note. Adam was chewing on something during Slow Ride, which got the cogs of the rumour mill started and there was speculation that he was losing his voice. He didn't seem to hold back his voice during this song though, and had fun, first playing with a turquoise bra with red nipple tassles, then a lime green bra thrown to him by Allison. Adam worked the Bowie medley well with increasingly full movements. He refrained from doing the highest belts we've been used to, and chose to end the medley unusually on a booming low run which sounded very full. The cogs stepped up a gear.
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Poll Results: Your Favourite Tour Set Performances
Your two favourite performances are so different, only similar by being very sexually charged, spectacular and most fitting of his own description of "High. Fierce. Beat. Horny. Fun." WLL is a visually powerful adrenaline rush with plenty of fit-inducing lights and strong contrasts between the explosion of stars and the black vortex that follows him, the purpose of which I think is to make him visible against the stars when the spotlight shines. And yes, we've all been sucked into a vortex with no escape. It's very strange watching and comparing WLL with the Idol performance now as you realise how much better he has become. I think he's more suited to the bigger audience; the Idol stage just wasn't worthy of his awesomeness. Those very suggestive moves are not for the faint-hearted and are an impossibly difficult feat to, erm, pull off, without appearing to be either a) a sleazy sex-pest, b) an arrogant bastard, c) a sad delusioned fool (cf. other contestant), d) a self-parodying novelty act, or e) a combination of the aforementioned. Somehow, Adam manages to prance his way through the minefield and come off as a fierce sex god who we, and our mums, all want to be fucked senseless by. The air that Adam exudes during WLL is highly masculine, predatory, sneering, domineering and aggressive as he prowls around the stage.
The Bowie medley, in contrast, is feline, camp, kinky and playful, ranking highly on the effeminacy scale. I'm assuming it wins because it shows a side that we didn't see during the course of AI as he fluidly slinks around the stage. It also has more variation as it's made up of three different songs. Life On Mars is sung in a very dramatic style where he over-enunciates his words. I love it because it gives the finger to all those who accused him of being 'theatrical' in a derogatory way. I'll show you theatrical, bitch! His voice is very powerful because the song seems to sit in his vocal sweet spot. The jacket removal at the start of Fame signifies to me that it's time to let loose and camp it up, showing us his lithe frame doing risqué dance moves, which are usually the preserve of scantily-clad, attention-seeking popstrel divas. Again it's a fine line between managing it do it with aplomb and inducing your audience into a collective spasm of squirm in embarrassment. I attribute being on the right side of the line to his exceptional self-awareness. I don't think Fame and Let's Dance show off Adam's voice very well apart from when he does the glory notes. There doesn't seem to be enough room for his voice to expand, but the point of those songs is to get everyone up dancing and having fun. Fame has a very funky bassline and would get me onto my feet more than Let's Dance. I'm not so keen on the arrangement of Let's Dance as it lacks the groove of the original and doesn't feel as dancey as I would like. From what I can tell by the concert videos, I think it could do with more of a hook and a stronger bass to get my feet properly going. Not that I'd be able to do much dancing at the concert anyway, because within his glittery halo I'd probably be too mesmerised to move.
It's interesting that your two favourites are almost polar opposites on the gender scale. It's like Adam is purposefully trying to prove a point that he's touched on many times already and bringing to our attention - that attraction is universal, regardless of sexual orientation - and the fact that we love both is demonstrative of that. He doesn't want to be the poster boy for gay rights, but he's certainly doing a great job in shattering stereotypes by challenging our accepted notions of masculinity and femininity, and the way we tend to box those concepts into neat separate containers.
Starlight, which Adam has done straight-up, isn't too far behind in third place. Although it doesn't have the spectacle and buzz of the top two, it's 'new' material and a visual feast. Some of the reviews have overlooked it, perhaps proving that people view concerts as being all about the theatrics. It's a shame because it's a very difficult song to sing and he sings it beautifully, sliding up and down his supernatural vocal register. The performance has evolved and he's been increasing his interaction with the audience by pacing around the stage instead of just using his expressive arms while standing still. This is the song that I feel whisks me away to a kaleidoscopic fantasy world that's carpeted with stars and the air is all twinkly with glitter. Add to that the dizzying sensation of the lighting and it feels like a wonderful trip or a dream that you want to go back to sleep for, in the hope that you can pick up where you left off.
Mad World lags some way behind, mainly because we've heard it so many times already. The version he sings isn't like the top 8 one, but rather more like the one he did on the press tour. The visuals show a swirling galaxy and it feels a like he's lost in the vast expanse of space which highlights the mood of desolation from the song. But it's not all depressing doom and gloom because the colours are bright and vibrant, encouraging optimism so that once you've found your way again, if you care to look, what surrounds you is beauty and everything will be just fine. Slow Ride suffers because we don't want Adam to share the stage with anyone else. Due to Allison's age, he has to dial things back a bit. We can see that he's been careful about not being overly sexual with her and instead saves the gyrating for the audience. It makes me wonder how saucy it could have been if she were older, or if he had shared the stage with a hot guy.
With regards to the set as a whole, each song brings out a different side of Adam and if I had to sum up each in one word, it would be: sex, vocals, tenderness, fun and fabulousness respectively. We knew from the show that he could do anything week after week as his range is so diverse but he continues to impress me even more. I can't imagine any other artist who can so smoothly transition between completely different songs in terms of vocal style and mood, in such a short set, without jarring. It's so astonishing that we hardly even notice it. If I were to nit-pick, I would have preferred WLL to be the one to finish on rather than the Bowie medley, but perhaps one is needed to pave the way for the other. I imagine it might be a bit too shocking of Ring of Fire-WTF?-proportions for casual viewers of AI who had no clue about Adam's pre-Idol gigs to be led straight to the medley. I prefer Slow Ride to come earlier in the set and think the visuals of Starlight and MW could have done with stronger differentiation because they tend to merge into one.
Adam's theatre experience has put him in really good stead for the tour as he knows how much drama to inject, how full his movements need to be, how to engage the audience and how to create a specific atmosphere. I'm thrilled that he's managed to indulge in all things sparkly and magical in the staging and outfit. There's definitely a strong space theme permeating the set, from the black hole to the stars to the swirling galaxy to the red planet, not to mention his alien presence. "Post-apocalyptic-rocked-out-space-disco-funk" indeed. His show dares us to dream; it sweeps us away from the mundanity of everyday life into an inspiring and enchanting wonderland. A brief glimpse into Planet Fierce perhaps?
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 00:49 7 comments
Labels: Adam Lambert, AI Tour, Article, Review
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Props to Duluth
'Baby' WLL was scintillating. It started off with perhaps a slight hiccup because the guitar started when the introduction package was still on the screen. There were quite a few changes to the timing and phrasing and those high notes were just amazing. I thought he looked more comfortable and looser than ever, being right at home on stage. I noticed that he stepped back a little during the mic molestation to allow more of him to be lit by the floor light. The song ended with some insane riffing. Starlight started with some swaying before a blue bra flew past him. He looked like he was really amused and couldn't stop himself from smiling throughout the song. It showcased a beautiful vocal performance with one noticeable difference when it appeared his timing was a little late. MW was another solid performance. Slow Ride saw yet another bra, pink this time, get kicked up by Allison then swung and flung back by Adam, who then he picked up a feather boa and draped it around her shoulders. His enunciation during Life On Mars was less dramatic than usual, which finished with Adam taking his coat off in two steps to prolong his striptease. There was a purple whip during Fame that he whipped himself with before sending back to the audience. There were some different dance moves and it looks like he's comfortable with improvising more and more as the show goes on. There were so many things thrown on the stage during this show, and it seems that each stop wants to outdo the last in terms of props. It certainly makes it fun and keeps it interesting. I'm pleased to see that Adam seems to be having a great time giving us all a great time.
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 20:01 2 comments
Stalker at Sunrise
There were rumours abound that security was extra tight to prevent anything from being thrown onto the stage because of a supposed stalker but nothing was confirmed. 'Baby' WLL had incredible energy and plenty of small changes for the anoraks amongst us. Starlight was beautifully done and MW saw a couple of changes in 'chi-ild' and a prolonged 'ma-a-ad' near the end. It's great to see Adam no longer holding himself back during Slow Ride. There was extra shimmying, head bobbing and a spin added to Fame with more gyrating during Let's Dance. This was definitely one of his best and most different performances in terms of the dancing. The last note was the longest I'd heard from him for a while and if there were any worries about stalkers, he certainly didn't show it with an infectious grin across his face.
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