(Leisher @ May 30 2013,15:29)

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< Turkey's president warns Europe about Islam. >

Let me sum up his remarks:
"You will either learn to tolerate Islam or there will be another holocaust."

Funny, because in Islamic dominated countries, their tolerance of minorities typically involves beheading them.

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Funny, because in Islamic dominated countries, their tolerance of minorities typically involves beheading them.

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When a major Taliban commander wrote an open letter to schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, telling her that she deserved to be shot by the militants because she was running a “smear campaign” against them, the world was horrified.

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Boko Haram, often referred to as the Nigerian Taliban
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It maintains that Western-style education is at the root of corruption and criminality in Nigeria

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If I had to pick one, give me sharia any day.  That's something that is nice and clearly shitty to fight against.  Christianity is just as evil and deadly overall, but it's much more insidious about it and harder to get rid of.

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I'd rather deal with folks already making compromises than folks who consider me converting to their religion the only acceptable compromise.

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Listen to the guy towards the end.

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Remember, Japan had a similar culture until post-WW2.

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I was more interested in him pointing out how other people's laws, unless based on Sharia law, don't mean shit to them.

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I'm just curious to watch and wonder when reality will trump political correctness.

(GORDON @ Nov. 25 2013,15:42)

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In 2001 they claimed only about 10% of muslims approved of what bin laden did, so we shouldn't blanket accuse them all of being barbarians. 10% of Islam is  about 100 million people, though. Find me 100 million christians who think the inquisition is still on, then you convince me.

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Likening the mission to suicide, the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment said Muslims risked dying for no “righteous reason” and any Muslim making such a foolhardy trip could receive the same punishment as those who killed themselves.
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“Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam,” the committee said.
“There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death.”

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An actress was sentenced to 26 years in jail by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court for "malicious acts" of blasphemy, the U.K.s' Independent reports.

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The offending program aired several months ago and features a couple reenacting their wedding vows based on the marriage of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter.

(GORDON @ Apr. 20 2015,21:42)

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I bet they're getting tired of all that peace over there.

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The statement did not say whether the shooting was related to the event, a contest hosted by the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

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The event featured speeches by Pamela Geller, president of the AFDI, and Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker known for his outspoken criticism of Islam. Wilders received several standing ovations as he quoted former President Ronald Reagan and Texas founding father Sam Houston.

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While they need to be removed from the gene pool, she's extremely lucky they were incompetent and ill prepared.

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Honor violence is a crime without a name in the United States.

(Leisher @ Sep. 15 2015,10:59)

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< Topless French women crash Muslim event. >

Apparently, it was a Muslim discussion on women where things like appropriate activities (cooking, shopping) and how they all need to wear veils were being discussed.

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In fact, Irving police may yet charge Ahmed with building a “hoax bomb.”

(Malcolm @ Sep. 16 2015,16:18)

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1) No one ever went broke underestimating human stupidity.

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I don't think that's the case.  I would imagine many business owners have gone broke for underestimating the stupidity of their workers.

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Irving ISD officials and Irving police will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Irving Criminal Justice Center. We will continue to update this story as new developments emerge.

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School resource officers questioned the student about his intentions and the reasons why he brought the device to school. The student only would say it was a clock and was not forthcoming at that time about any other details.

Having no other information to go on, and taking into consideration the device’s suspicious appearance and the safety of the students and staff at MacArthur High School, the student was taken into custody for possessing a hoax bomb.

(TheCatt @ Sep. 16 2015,17:01)

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Here's the police reasoning, Thib.

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Actually nobody thought the clock was a bomb. The school didn't think it was a bomb. The police admitted they never thought it was a bomb. The police admitted Ahmed never suggested it was a bomb, or that he meant for anyone to think it was anything but a clock. But grown-ups detained, interrogated, arrested, and handcuffed Ahmed because they couldn't conceive of why a kid would build his own clock.

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I've been on the internet, reading bullshit news stories---mostly about black thugs shot by RAAAAYSSSIISSST white "vigilantes" and cops.

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"Only thing we did hear from the press conference was that he intended to transfer," MacArthur High School's director of communications Lesley Weaver told ABC News today. "He's certainly welcome [back]."
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"I think there's frustration from the students," Weaver said. "They love their school, they love their community and not really appreciating the national spotlight that's been cast upon them."

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"We do stand behind what the teacher did," she said. "We believe she was acting in the best interest for the safety of all 2,800 students at MacArthur High School. She followed the correct procedures."

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Ahmed spoke about his arrest today on ABC News' "Good Morning America," describing how his English teacher and police reacted to his clock, which is still in police custody.

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He also served as self-elected president of the small Sufi Muslim AlSufi center in Irving.

Mohamed has also run for president of Sudan on two separate occasions.

Mohamed also made headlines for his bizarre role in Rev. Terry Jones’ incendiary Quran trial

Muslim leaders in Texas, meanwhile, doubted his claims to religious and scholarly leadership.

"It was spring break and he wanted to take his wife and five kids to Disney World: to ‘kill two birds with one stone,’ as he put it.” "

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Inside it, the electronics appear less as a combination of miscellaneous parts wired together into a timepiece, and more so as simply the guts of a standard digital alarm clock

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The kid didn't "make" a clock. He took apart a clock and put it in some kind of metal case.

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Inside it, the electronics appear less as a combination of miscellaneous parts wired together into a timepiece, and more so as simply the guts of a standard digital alarm clock. Seen are a big seven-segment display, a transformer for stepping down the line voltage, 9-volt connector for power-outage battery backup, plus the control board with buttons to set the clock, and the main board that connects all the pieces together, attached to the display by a wide ribbon cable.

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For starters, one glance at the printed circuit board in the photo, and I knew we were looking at mid-to-late 1970s vintage electronics. Surely you’ve seen a modern circuit board, with metallic traces leading all over to the various components like an electronic spider’s web. You’ll notice right away the highly accurate spacing, straightness of the lines, consistency of the patterns. That’s because we design things on computers nowadays, and computers assist in routing these lines. Take a look at the board in Ahmed’s clock. It almost looks hand-drawn, right? That’s because it probably was. Computer aided design was in its infancy in the 70s. This is how simple, low cost items (like an alarm clock) were designed.
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Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary.
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So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.

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At least 717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage have been killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia say.

Another 863 people were injured in the incident at Mina, which occurred as two million pilgrims were taking part in the Hajj's last major rite.

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Al-Nimr's cleric uncle was sentenced to death in a separate trial on terrorism charges and for "waging war on God" because of his speech during anti-government protests in Qatif, according to Amnesty International.

(Leisher @ Sep. 29 2015,12:41)

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< Clock kid is a bit of a dick. >

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Ahmed Mohamed “racked up weeks of suspensions” and clashed with authority while in middle school, the Dallas Morning News reported.
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Mohamed reportedly used a “hand-built remote control” to repeatedly turn off the class projector during a teacher’s lesson in middle school. But he also once created a makeshift phone charger to give a tutor’s dead cellphone some juice.

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The nephew of a prominent government critic, Nimr was held without charge for two years at a prison in Dammam in the kingdom's Eastern Province. Amnesty International charged in a report last month that he was tortured into confessing to taking part in the illegal protest, attacking security forces, possessing a machine gun and committing armed robbery.

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“I don’t believe the president will have the opportunity to meet one on one with Ahmed Mohammad,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters

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While Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said earlier on Monday that Mr. Obama did not plan to meet with Ahmed, the president did speak briefly with the boy and gave him a hug. Ahmed made his way to the front of the crowd after Mr. Obama delivered a speech.

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When he flew into Sudan last week, Ahmed wrote on Twitter, “I am coming home.”

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The prince was among five Saudi nationals arrested Monday after being accused of trying to transport 2 tons of Captagon amphetamine pills onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia...

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Another U.S. official said Malik expressed "admiration" for the extremist group's leader on Facebook under the alias account. But the official said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State communicated back with her, and there was no evidence of any operational instructions being conveyed to her.

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"God wanted me to protect those innocent babies by killing these murderers."

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There will be no doubt some hand-wringing about “Islamophobia” and further calls to continue the American elite’s fourteen-year track record of whitewashing Islamic beliefs and culture, but I wonder if the media is missing a powerful, largely-uncovered influence on America’s hearts and minds — the experience and testimony of the more than two million Americans who’ve served overseas since 9/11 and have experienced Islamic cultures up-close.

Yes, they were in the middle of a war — but speaking from my own experience — the war was conducted from within a culture that was shockingly broken. I expected the jihadists to be evil, but even I couldn’t fathom the depths of their depravity. And it was all occurring against the backdrop of a brutally violent and intolerant culture. Women were beaten almost as an afterthought, there was a near-total lack of empathy for even friends and neighbors, lying was endemic, and sexual abuse was rampant. Even more disturbingly, it seemed that every problem was exacerbated the more religious and pious a person (or village) became.

I spent enough time outside the wire and interacting with tribal leaders to get a sense of the reality around me, but the younger guys on the line spent weeks at a time living in the heart of the local community. I remember one young soldier, after describing the things he’d seen since the start of the deployment, gestured towards the village around us and said — in perfect Army English — “Sir, this s**t is f**ked up.”

It is indeed. While it’s certainly unfair to judge Indonesia or Malaysia by the standards of Iraq or Afghanistan, it’s very hard to shake the power of lived experience, nor should we necessarily try. After all, when we hear stories from Syria, Yemen, Gaza, the Sinai, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Mali, Pakistan, and elsewhere they all fit the same depressing template of the American conflict zones. Nor is the dazzlingly wealthy veneer of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or the other Gulf States all that impressive. Tens of thousands of soldiers have seen the veritable slave labor that toils within the oil empires and have witnessed first-hand their casual disregard for “lesser” life.

But this same experience has caused us to treasure the Muslim friends we do have — in part because we recognize the extreme risks of their loyalty and defiance of jihad. That’s why American officers fiercely champion the immigration of local interpreters, even to the point of welcoming them into their own home. That’s why there’s often an intense connection with our Kurdish allies, the single-most effective ground fighting force against ISIS.

Two million Americans have been downrange, and they’ve come home and told families and friends stories the media rarely tells. Those stories have an impact, but because of the cultural distance between America’s warriors and its media, academic, and political aristocracy, it’s an impact the aristocracy hasn’t been tracking. Experience trumps idealistic rhetoric, and I can’t help but think that polls like YouGov’s are at least partly registering the results of a uniquely grim American experience.

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“These children were deceived when they were told it was calligraphy,” the parent, Kimberly Herndon, told NBC29 television. “This is not calligraphy, this is a language.”

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If a similar lesson were taught within the context of any other major religion, she said – if you asked students to say that “Jesus is my one Lord,” for example – “someone is going to go bonkers over it.”

(GORDON @ Dec. 18 2015,14:03)

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I agree with the person. If muslim kids were told to write the Jesus thing in Latin, everyone from the ACLU to every Muslim in the world would explode.

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Today, 6 plus billion people will arise in the morning and go about their day, a day that is everywhere eased and enriched by the discoveries  of scientists as made concrete by engineers. And while a considerable minority of those worthy scientists and engineers profess islam as a faith, every one whose work makes life better for the human race is working outside of the Islamic world. Not one of the labor-saving, wealth-creating, suffering-destroying, and life-enriching technologies you will use today, whoever you are, was conceived and brought to market in that part of the world under any of the flags of mohammedanism.

It's not so much that they're opposed to modern civilization; increasingly, they're irrelevant to it. Like a bad-seed child, they have no positive accomplishments and no attainments to point to; they are reduced to vandalism and crime to seek attention.

-- WeaponsMan in Hadji Needs Weapons Men, Too

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Even if people had previously been disinclined to doubt these figures, after Germany's Syrian-refugee rapefest on New Year's Eve, the truth is coming home and its coming home hard:  Muslim men rape.  It's their culture.  Norway's polite little "do not rape" talks will not change this culture.  It is bred into the religion and the culture flowing from that religion.  More than that, Mohammed made it quite clear that rape is an instrument of conquest and it is, indeed, a part of jihad.  Consider it a Muslim man's moral obligation to rape non-Muslim women (or, if he can get away with it, to rape Muslim women too, since the fact that he can rape them by definition means they must be bad Muslims).  If you want a rape culture, don't go to an American campus; go to any Muslim majority community that has contact with Western women.
It was in the context of Western sexual harassment (which we never stop talking about) and Muslim rape culture (which we're only starting to talk about) that I thought of my own experiences living in America, traveling through Europe, and spending a bit of time in two strongly Muslim regions.

While traveling in the West (either America or the tourist enclaves of Europe), I've never been on the receiving end of sexual abuse, sexual assault, or even sexually suggestive behavior. (Actually, there was one exception to that last, and I'll tell it to you in a minute.)  In East Jerusalem and Tangier, however, both of which are Muslim areas, the male attention frightened me.

My immunity to being accosted in the West could be because I have all the charm of an old Latin teacher, but I'd like to think that's not true. I prefer to think that, at least for the last 30 years or so, it's because I read Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence. In the first or second chapter, de Becker wrote that interviews with men who assaulted women all told the same story: The women they assaulted looked like victims. These women had poor posture; a flat, dragging way of walking; and appeared unaware of their surroundings.

I decided then and there never to do any of that - which wasn't hard because, as a short person, I've always made sure to have excellent posture, I'm too impatient to have anything but a purposeful walk, and I'm too paranoid to ignore my surroundings.

I also believe (and there's no way to prove this, but I do believe) that, because my old-fashioned mother raised me to be a "lady" in the old-fashioned sense of the word, the male of the species acts like a gentleman in my presence.

Nowadays it helps too that I'm comfortable with martial arts, something else I feel affects my behavior.

None of those things helped in the Muslim world. My power walk, my dignity, even my martial arts chops, were irrelevant when dozens of men were blatantly giving me the once over in an aggressive way I've never experienced anywhere else.

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It is bred into the religion and the culture flowing from that religion.  More than that, Mohammed made it quite clear that rape is an instrument of conquest and it is, indeed, a part of jihad.  Consider it a Muslim man's moral obligation to rape non-Muslim women (or, if he can get away with it, to rape Muslim women too, since the fact that he can rape them by definition means they must be bad Muslims).  If you want a rape culture, don't go to an American campus; go to any Muslim majority community that has contact with Western women.

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I think the point was that they come from a rape culture...

(GORDON @ Jan. 14 2016,20:29)

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It's all a poisoned well of faerie tales and has produced nothing but hate and anger for hundreds of years.  Exterminate.

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But to also punish others for their crimes by labeling all Muslims as bad is just un-American.

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There is a bit of difference in that one group of people have chosen a profession and the other group of people are mostly there by birth.

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But then I don't think anyone here has ever said all cops are bad, either.

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I disagree that's its a small percentage. I think far more Muslims cops than estimated either carry out acts of terror brutality, would be willing to, or support it. I think a larger number quietly watches without objecting, and they're just as guilty.

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You've got a culture of people who are way behind the rest of the world in almost every way.

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...any other group that wants to get together and talk about their shared delusions.

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So that's my rebuttle.

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He vowed that if his enemies continued to pursue violence, they would be beaten with the aid of God and "scattered like flour thrown into the air".

(GORDON @ Jan. 15 2016,15:13)

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Yes.

I also claim your mom.

Checkmate.

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The nanny's religion was not known but she wore a head covering and some witnesses said she shouted "Allahu akbar!" while waving the bloody head. In videos posted on Russian news websites, she was heard shouting "I am a terrorist!" in Russian.

When asked by a reporter outside the courtroom Wednesday why she killed the child, Bobokulova, who did not wear headscarf this time, replied "Allah ordered" as she walked by.