Islam - the thread of peace and tolerance

[GORDON]

I assume it was a Lutheran Jihadist.

[GORDON]

The spigot into Europe is opening wider.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ ... S_REFUGEES

[Malcolm]

Takes me to a map of the US, makes me click on a state and newspaper, and then won't load the news story.

[GORDON]

Oh yeah, I think I remember the AP was going to fuck up hotlinking.

[TheCatt]

Takes me to a map of the US, makes me click on a state and newspaper, and then won't load the news story.

Once you do that, go back and click on the link and it works.

[Malcolm]

Takes me to a map of the US, makes me click on a state and newspaper, and then won't load the news story.

Once you do that, go back and click on the link and it works.

403 forbidden.

[TheCatt]

Meh, worked for me. noob.

[Malcolm]

I appear to have access to a shitty version now.

"I hope that the message carried by those forcibly displaced reaches the leaderships: We need action, political action, to stop conflicts," said Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "The message that they have carried is: 'If you don't solve problems, problems will come to you.'"

I'm pretty trying to solve other people's problems is what led to the 60M plus refugees.

"Governments whose policies aggravate humanitarian crises around the globe remain reluctant to lend their victims a helping hand," Erdogan said. "The international community has a political and moral obligation to restore the human dignity of refugees."

Suck a dick. What about each national community that has caused its own fucking problems because they weren't concerned with morality or even practicality at any point in the last 50 years? Fucking poster boys for colonization apologists.

Here's the UN Council for Refugees homepage. 65.3M forcibly displaced, 21M or so officially termed refugees with half of them coming from Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia. Here's a BBC article with the top 10 places people are fleeing for the first time.

Eritrea is about 50/50 Christian and Islamic. Nigeria is 60/40 Christian/Muslim. People are leaving the Ukraine for reasons besides religion, I bet. Other than that, there seems to be a common thread running through the high scores.

[Leisher]

Gay Muslim mass killer's lover speaks out.

I'll bet ISIS wishes they could take back the credit they claimed for this attack.

[Malcolm]

It's a ploy of the great Satan, you fool.

[Malcolm]

Ka-boom.

[GORDON]

Wikipedia tells me that 11 people have been killed in terrorist attacks on abortion clinics/doctors since the beginning of time in the US. Muslims have killed 1,200 people in religiously motivated attacks since Ramadan started 3 weeks ago. A suicide bombing in Syria killed 10 people this afternoon. Bringing up abortion clinic bombings to say "Look, Christians are violent too!" is really ignorant and you can safely ignore anyone who says that.

[GORDON]

Terrorist: "Sir, we keep murdering people, but the West will not acknowledge we do this for Islam."
PR Rep: "Have you tried quoting the Prophet in your manifestos?
Terrorist: "Yes, sir."
PR Rep: "Have you tried declaring your motivations to a 911 operator?"
Terrorist: "Yes, sir. The Westerners claim that they, the white man, are ultimately responsible for our actions."
PR Rep: "What the fuck?"
Terrorist: "What the fuck, indeed, sir."

[Malcolm]

Ka-boom.

Wednesday: Istanbul

Weekend: Bangladesh and Baghdad.

Bangladesh is one of those cheery places where religious fundie psychos have started doing drive-by stabbings of bloggers they don't like. Then there's Iraq, which gets to be a bigger clusterfuck every day.

The White house issued a statement saying: "These attacks only strengthen our resolve to support Iraqi security forces as they continue to take back territory from ISIL, just as we continue to intensify our efforts to root out ISIL's terrorist network and leaders."

Keep pumping water into that leaky pool.

"Obviously this will reignite the anger of ordinary people who say we can't even go out at night and enjoy life in our city," according to CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman.

The anger already manifested itself when Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other officials attempted to survey the bomb damage.
Amateur videos posted on social media showed residents throwing objects at a convoy carrying al-Abadi in Karrada. The videos showed protesters yelling "thief!" and "get out!"
In a statement, al-Abadi said he understands the reaction in "that moment of grief" by the residents who threw objects at his convoy.

It's not just that moment, dude. They fucking hate you.

[Malcolm]

Medina mosque hit. No one has claimed responsibility yet, but the list of suspects is pretty short.

IS and other Sunni extremists consider Shiites to be apostates deserving of death, and have previously attacked Shiite places of worship, including a suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in Qatif in May 2015 that killed 21 people.

Mainly because anyone except a devout Muslim in Medina sticks out like a sore thumb. Saudi Arabia is ruled by a family of oligarchical despots that maintain an ironfisted police state due to their fabulous wealth while turning back the clock on societal progress to some time close to the stagnation of the Ottoman Empire. Any trouble they get seems well deserved. Too bad they missed the royalty.

[Malcolm]

UN proves its own uselessness.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Jordanian royal family, delivered his remarks via a spokesman in Geneva.

"This is one of the holiest sites in Islam, and for such an attack to take place there, during Ramadan, can be considered a direct attack on Muslims all across the world," he said, referring to the Islamic holy month.

"It is an attack on the religion itself."

No, that was an attack on a building and the people inside. The attack on the religion is coming from the thousands of loons latching onto it and calling it their own.

[GORDON]

NO TRUE MUSLIM.

[Malcolm]

I'm astounded that, with all the rules in their scripture, there isn't one that says, "By the way, if some murdering pricks try to subvert thine faith, the Prophet says it's your job to drop the fucking hammer on their asses."

[Vince]

I'm astounded that, with all the rules in their scripture, there isn't one that says, "By the way, if some murdering pricks try to subvert thine faith, the Prophet says it's your job to drop the fucking hammer on their asses."

Um... because they aren't subverting their faith. They are practicing it. I don't understand why you have such comprehension problems.

[Malcolm]

No, they're not. Not anymore than these pricks practice Christianity. If you want to get into a debate about the intricacies of Islamic theology, let's rumble. I'm one of the few white dudes that's actually read the Koran.