Shooting of the Week

[windwalker]

Hey, c'mon, if it's about academic freedom, what about the professor who was suspended for saying that Muslims and Christians believe in the same God (the same thing that the Pope said).

But isn't that the woman who also committed the sin of wearing a hijab? I mean, she mighta had a bomb underneath.

some might find bad things happen to them if they dont wear it.

Honor killing in Canada: Aqsa Parvez was murdered for refusing to wear the Islamic hijab — not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course! An update on this story. “Father, son get life terms in Aqsa Parvez slaying,” from CBC News, June 16 (thanks to Michael):

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/canad ... ison-dawah

wearing long hijabs, the anonymous women squeeze quietly into crowds, barely noticed.

One slipped in among students gathered Wednesday at a notice board of a college campus in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. She detonated a hidden bomb, killing herself and at least five others, wire services reported.

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la- ... story.html

[Steve James]

find it odd that she would profess something in a place in which they feel they have pretty clear beliefs in and not
expect the collage to have problems with it.

Um, what she said was that "Muslims and Christians worship the same God." Now, regardless of an institution's claims or beliefs, either that statement is true or not. However, the accuracy of what she said is precisely what the institution did not want to hear ... because it's "confusing." In fact, "Allah" is just the Arabic word for God. But, that's just typical American ignorance. It'd be like saying that Jews and Christians worship the same God. Oops, they don't, do they? Their God's name is YHWH or בורא עולם. Besides, the teacher is only repeating what the Pope said. But, again, that is insulting to those who want to say that their One "Supreme Being" is not the same as the next religion's One "Supreme Being." Turns out that either theirs is the only real Supreme Being or there are lots of other gods. Muslims believe as a matter of faith that there is only one God. One would imagine that at an alleged college of theology that they would at least be open to such a statement. I can understand the confusion, though. It takes too much thinking. It's like saying that all men are created equal, but some are less equal than others.

[Steve James]

Kenyan Muslims shield Christians in Mandera bus attack
21 December 2015 From the section Africa

A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses.

They told the militants "to kill them together or leave them alone", a local governor told Kenyan media.

At least two people were killed in the attack, near the north-eastern village of El Wak on the Somali border.

The Somali based al-Shabab group says it carried out the attack. The group often carries out attacks in Kenya's north-east.

The bus was travelling from the capital Nairobi to the town of Mandera.

When al-Shabab killed 148 people in an attack on Garissa University College in April, the militants reportedly singled out Christians and shot them, while freeing many Muslims.

Last year, a bus was attacked near Mandera by al-Shabab militants, who killed 28 non-Muslims travelling to Nairobi for the Christmas holidays.

"The locals showed a sense of patriotism and belonging to each other," Mandera governor Ali Roba told Kenya's private Daily Nation newspaper.
The militants decided to leave after the passengers' show of unity, he added.

With regard to the hijab.

Mandera County, where the attack took place, is in Kenya’s northeast along the border with Somalia. When the militants attempted to sort through the passengers, they told “locals” — most of whom are Muslim and ethnic Somalis — that they could get back on and be spared, according to the BBC.

They refused.

“We even gave some non-Muslims our religious attire to wear in the bus so that they would not be identified easily. We stuck together tightly,” Abdi Mohamud Abdi, a Muslim passenger, told Reuters. “The militants threatened to shoot us, but we still refused and protected our brothers and sisters. Finally they gave up and left but warned that they would be back.”

Deputy County Commissioner Julius Otieno confirmed that account to Reuters, adding that Muslim passengers refused to help the militants, who “were trying to identify who were Muslims and who were not.”

[Steve James]

What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upcvq_n03LY

[grzegorz]

I was wondering where Zimmerman would live next.

[Michael]

What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upcvq_n03LY

I knew a guy who displayed his gun during a minor road rage confrontation like this, didn't point it, and he was arrested and indicted for felony.

[Steve James]

I guess today with stand your ground, what happens?

It means that it's easier for people to give excuses for shooting someone --whether that person is armed or not.

But, the non-political side of it is that more people end up shooting themselves or their loved ones or friends by accident. It's like nuclear proliferation, too. Nobody wants to be left out.

I would also say that, if you happen to be lost in a strange neighborhood, do not ring a stranger's bell and ask for directions. This is America, dammit.

[Michael]

I would also say that, if you happen to be lost in a strange neighborhood, do not ring a stranger's bell and ask for directions. This is America, dammit.

Oh man, there was that horrible case of the Turkish boy looking for a costume party.

[grzegorz]

http://news.yahoo.com/us-shooter-michig ... 40082.html

[lazyboxer]

America has more to fear from its own home-grown shooters than from any kind of militant Islam, though its current fear-based political climate precludes the possibility that anything will ever be done about it. The sickness has gone too deep.

[windwalker]

America has more to fear from its own home-grown shooters than from any kind of militant Islam, though its current fear-based political climate precludes the possibility that anything will ever be done about it. The sickness has gone too deep.

what would you suggest be done about it, the sickness?

[lazyboxer]

America has more to fear from its own home-grown shooters than from any kind of militant Islam, though its current fear-based political climate precludes the possibility that anything will ever be done about it. The sickness has gone too deep.

what would you suggest be done about it, the sickness?

That was my point - I don't have any suggestions. Do you?

[Steve James]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3wpzbvTHI

[Michael]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR3wpzbvTHI

Trumpets say, "If Islam isn't registered, how are we to know which of those shootings were done by stealth Muslims?"

[Steve James]

stealth Muslims. Well, when the Spaniards had that problem in the 15th century, they just had an Inquisition to determine who was really Christian. Then again, it reminds me of the stealth Jews that served in Hitler's army. One of them was actually the model for posters of the "ideal" Aryan. His name was Goldberg: here's his pic.

My point is that registration won't work for those who want to be stealthy. Otoh, some people think there are far more stealth Christians, and I'm not talking about the people who claim they're Christian. There are far more of them who've committed crimes, or had accidents, or have committed suicide Here against Christians.