AT LEAST IT'S A START - AT 7:53 P.M. ET:   Although this has clearly brought some anguish to the Associated Press, whose writer seems to feel the jihadists' pain, the United States has taken some limited financial action against Iran.  From AP:

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, more than 100 acres (40 hectares) of land in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

Seizing the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and seeking a nuclear bomb.

No, it's not a sharp blow.  It's a baby step.  This will not stop one centrifuge.

A telephone call and e-mail to Iran's U.N. Mission seeking comment were not immediately answered.

It is extremely rare for U.S. law enforcement authorities to seize a house of worship, a step fraught with questions about the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

Fraught?  Do you feel fraught?  Are you anguished?  Do you feel the Constitution being shredded? 

Someone please explain to the AP that a house of worship is subject to American laws.  If the laws are broken the "house of worship" is vulnerable. 

The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims, many of whom are fearful of a backlash after last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier.

Sure to inflame?  Are we certain about that, AP?  The story has been out for a while today, and the streets seem surprisingly empty of the inflamed.

And I love the "blamed on a Muslim American soldier," in describing the shootings at Fort Hood, as if the guy was given a bum rap.  You know, the blame game.

Political correctness will take a while to wash away.  Scrubbing needed.

November 12, 2009