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<p>And the numbers together, and you almost have the recent points losses of Apple in the stock market. You see, Xiggi has to be Xiggi! :)</p>
<p>On a less jocular note, congratulations on the weight loss. Not an easy feat.</p>
<p>BTW, I make it a specific point to refer to Islamic terrorism as Islamic terrorism, in part, because that’s what it is, and in part as a response to the US Government referring to Major Hasan’s rampage at Fort Hood as “workplace violence”.</p>
<p>I don’t think that whitewashing and euphemisms are helpful in trying to find solutions to this problem. It would be truly frightening to think that the FBI and our counter-terrorism agencies are not profiling.</p>
<p>BC, feel free to ignore this:
Again, it’s circular.<br>
Apologies. My point is not to pretend I know what’s real. Or to stifle with skepticism. Only to suggest we don’t leap.</p>
<p>They are profiling. I know a Muslim woman who flies very frequently and gets searched every single time. Make you feel better? I also saw a fight happening in the middle of Boston yesterday where it looked like a bunch of white guys called a guy who looked South Asian or Middle Eastern a terrorist. The second guy reacted like he’s been hearing that a lot and getting very hurt and frustrated.</p>
<p>A kid in my high school also asked my best friend, when he found out she was Muslim, what it was like to be a terrorist. Serious question, point blank. This was a very smart kid who was a senior at the time. </p>
<p>Feeling the need to use the kind of language that idad is using is what leads to people beleving that all Muslims are terrorists. And leads to some racial profiling by citizens who are not FBI agents or in a position to do anything about terrorism – and just ends up with them being mean.</p>
<p>A lot of Muslim people are incensed with, hurt by and terrified of the terrorists who have cast such negativity on their community, caused them such trouble and threaten their lives. They know who did this to all of us, and it isn’t the people who are scared and angry, it is the perps.</p>
<p>eireann, I am not doubting the potential for innocent people being harassed because of the backlash of terror attacks, but I also get searched every time I fly. The one exception in the last several years is when I flew with a puppy as my carry on.
I am a WASPy , blonde , middle aged woman who frequently flies solo but have also been searched while enroute to Disneyworld with my family</p>
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<p>We do postmortems where I work on software failures. Nobody really likes to work on these because you have to dig out what happened a year to several years in the past and you’ve got someone that feels like a prosecutor looking to assign blame and everyone involved doesn’t want to get blamed and tries to point the finger at someone else. Not because they don’t like you but because they don’t want to be blamed.</p>
<p>Is this process necessarily bad? No. Is it a pain? Sure.</p>
<p>It results in adding processes to ensure that we don’t make the same kind of error in the future and that we have the checks and balances in place to add the human judgements of a few people in an area that might be okay for one reviewer and not okay for another. The result is overall improved quality, processes and procedures. But you don’t feel that way through the process of the postmortem.</p>
<p>Some things are obvious. Or obvious when someone draws you a diagram or a map. Or when someone tells you what happened, though leaves out the details of things that make them look bad.</p>
<p>I worked with KC Johnson on his blog on the Duke Lacrosse affair. That seemed so obvious to us. It seemed so obvious to the American public that watched 60 Minutes. The professors at Duke thought the complete opposite. The prosecutor did too. The supposed victim had her many local supporters too. In the end, what appeared obvious to us became obvious to a lot of others - thought not all. People with Phds, people that teach our children. I work hard to check things out and I happily point out the things where I was wrong. That’s something that I do professionally because I have to for my company and it’s something that I have to do personally for my reputation. Of course I get ticked off when that’s questioned.</p>
<p>InterestedDad just replies with cool, calm analysis. Sometimes I do that too; sometimes I like to mix it up.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="Boston Bombing 'Suspect 2,' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, On Social Networks | MEMRI[/url</a>] an interesting description of the material on their facebook and twitter accounts.</p>
<p><a href=“Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera”>Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera;
<p>Have heard that mosques have condemned actions by these vile criminals</p>
<p>On the day of the bombing Tsarnaev tweeted: “There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don’t hear them cuz [because] they’re the minority.”</p>
<p>In another tweet, Tsarnaev said that he ceased arguing with people who equated Islam with terrorism: “I don’t argue with fools who say Islam is terrorism, it’s not worth a thing. Let an idiot remain an idiot.”</p>
<p>This was from Lergnom’s link, it is reportedly from Dzhokhar’s twitter account.</p>
<p>Largest mosque in NE condemns attacks and has closed until further notice. This is all very sad. </p>
<p>[USA</a> TODAY](<a href=“http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2096659]USA”>http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2096659)</p>