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• Islamic Leader Issues Tough Response to Fellow Muslims on Bombings and Extremism: Drop the ‘We Are the Victims’ Mentality

  April 23, 2013 at 12:36am

  “There is a deep soulful battle of identity raging within the Muslim consciousness domestically and abroad between Westernism and liberalism,” he said. “In essence the Islamists confront every situation in a selfish ‘we are the victims’ mentality and the rest of us non-Islamist Muslims need to instead respond with a louder and more real leadership and say: ‘We will not be victims.’”

  Reminds me of lyrics from The Descendents song Coolidge – “I looked up one day and saw that it was up to me, you can only be a victim if you admit to be.”

  I hope his words find traction with his audience.

• Shock: Deceased Bomber Suspect Was Married With a Baby — Here’s More About His Wife and Child

  April 21, 2013 at 6:29am

  In reply to Gonzo.

  “Its_not_all_about_you” – so you’re saying Hitler was so Christian that he wanted to exterminate the Jews? Hint: Jesus was Jewish.

  Moreover, Timothy McVeigh stated plainly that he wasn’t a Christian but he believed in a “god”; i.e. he plainly stated that he was agnostic. He was also a cowardly hypocrite, of course, as he did request to receive Extreme Unction prior to his execution.

  Try again, but with actual examples as your rebuttal.

• #FreeJahar Hashtag Hits Twitter as People Sympathize With Boston Terror Suspect Who Allegedly Placed Bomb That Killed 8-Year-Old

  April 21, 2013 at 6:09am

  In reply to Grover_Standpipe.

  It’s telling how you included “right leaning white Christian” and then went to “teenage Chechen”; more apt to describe him as “left leaning white Muslim” if you were going to have an accurate contrast using the same identifiers. But, since you are espousing a hypothetical situation that isn’t relevant… it doesn’t matter what you think would’ve happened if someone else was being held responsible.

  Also, since he was naturalized on 9/11/2012 this kid is solely an American citizen and voted for the big O; i.e. he’s not a Chechen anymore. Despite that fact, clearly his heart was elsewhere on 3/14/2012 since he “tweeted” this prior to receiving his citizenship: “a decade in america already, i want out.”

  Trivial demographic arguments aside, this kid appears to have earned the gavel that’s coming his way.

• Guess Which Famous Singer Just Called Louis Farrakhan a ‘Super Hero’ Who Is a ‘Beautiful, Brave Being’

  April 18, 2013 at 1:05am

  “Race’ should be taken off of EVERY form. We are all Americans.”

  I couldn’t agree more with her on this point, the sooner we become truly united as a people and dissolve the false political boundaries that have existed for 150+ years then we will truly be the example of the world our forefathers (and many of their successors) dreamt of.

  The Farrakhan thing is totally antithetical to the quote above, anyone who has actually read “The Final Call” or heard him speak for more than 90 seconds will have been exposed to a vitriolic racist diatribe whose sole difference from the tenets of groups like the KKK is the exchange of the words “white” for “black.”

  When I lived in Tallahassee, I regularly saw the Malcolm X wannabes on street corners around FAMU. “The Black Pages” (analogous to the yellow pages but all of the businesses are owned by black people and the idea was that black people should only frequent those establishments in the name of racial solidarity) were mistakenly delivered to my home because we lived in the so-called black section of town. I have been subjected to derogatory racist acts that were retribution for deeds neither I nor my ancestors committed. It is a typical human fallibility and I pray for the day when we as a people will overcome the shallowness of our appearances and reveal who we are truly capable of becoming.

• Math Prof. Who ‘Forced’ Students to Sign ‘Vote for President Obama’ Pledge Fired

  April 18, 2013 at 12:14am

  In reply to Properlytoastedbagel.

  an e”X” professor of course…
  apologies for the crappy algebra pun but you opened the door and I had to walk through it

• See the Incredibly-Moving Moment an Entire Hockey Stadium Sang the National Anthem in Honor of Boston Terror Victims

  April 18, 2013 at 12:09am

  In reply to rickroland.

  “O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
  Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
  Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
  Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
  Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
  And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
  And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
  O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

  I wish that all Americans actually knew the source of the song itself as well as the verses that we don’t normally recognize at public events. Like so much of our culture, our heritage has been conveniently truncated.

• Chris Matthews on Boston Bombings: ‘Domestic Terrorists…Tend to Be on the Far Right’

  April 17, 2013 at 3:01pm

  ‘Domestic Terrorists…Tend to Be on the Far Right’

  New Headline: “Moronic Journalists… Tend to Be on the Far Left.”

• ‘Gangnam Style’ Singer Has Another Song Out — And He Hopes the N. Koreans Like It

  April 14, 2013 at 9:05am

  “It’s a tragedy. We are the only countries divided right now,” PSY said at a news conference ahead of the concert.”

  Ireland and Sudan… I know these people aren’t paid for smarts, but I cringe when they get to get away with false appearances in the name of pseudo-altruism.

• Chaos at Gitmo: Guards Use ‘Less-Than-Lethal’ Rounds to Quell Hunger Strike Violence

  April 13, 2013 at 7:20pm

  To everyone above who is willfully ignorant of what a prisoner of war is: these people are anything but.
  They are members of a non-nation sponsored force of armed combatants. In short, they are the equivalent of PIRATES. If they were actual prisoners of war then we would have a country that we could declare war on. The war on terrorism is a total misnomer as we will never be at a negotiation table with terrorism to discuss terms of peace. There will never be a “VT” day where terrorism surrenders…

  As it is, they are members of a clandestine organization from various countries throughout the world. There is no provision in the Geneva convention for these types of criminals. They have been lucky to be kept alive for this long, any other country in the world would’ve already disposed of them en masse. They have no habeas corpus, they have no miranda rights, they deserve every bit of their indefinite stasis; in truth they deserve far worse than the “Club Gitmo” treatment currently being administered.

• Gay Man Claims Hospital Banned Him From Seeing Sick Partner, Had Him Taken Out in Handcuffs

  April 11, 2013 at 9:08pm

  In reply to Lesbian Packing Hollow Points.

  “He’s been at the psychiatric unit part several times.”
  There’s no reference to the sickness he was suffering from, there’s no reference to anything other than psychiatric care in the article. “Sick” is a blanket term that applies to symptoms without actually diagnoses. IF they got a civil union in a different state and then moved to Missouri THEN they have to face the consequences of doing so. End of story. Civil unions are legally recognized in whatever state they got “unified.” This kind of thing happens where I live and the truth of the matter is that marriages and civil unions are recognized only by the states they are granted in if they have differing definitions of each. The federal government cannot (ever) dictate to any state that they have to accept another state’s laws as their own. So Roger and Allen can go back to the place they got “unified” and live unperturbed or they can live in Missouri and continue to complain.

  Pot is legal in Washington State and Colorado, but if I bring pot I buy in either state to Florida and am found in possession I WILL be arrested. Any other state law is no different in that they are only applicable in the state that enacted them. These two guys are trying to force a square peg in a round hole, no pun intended.