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Well, thank you, ma’am. Thank you very much. I do feel pretty today. ;)</p>
<p>“So you are worried he will rape your children, but not kill them because they are Americans?”</p>
<p>Actually I would worry more if you lived next to me. You tend to only lash out at people and lack reasoning skills. I think you would be a much greater danger because you don’t think clearly. By that I don’t mean the same as me, but without logical defense of your position. You tend to rant rather than debate the pros and cons of your position or others. Potentially your a risk.</p>
<p>Nope. Its pretty logical. This guy has so many links to terror. So I am just surprised that someone will not mind him living next to them.</p>
<p>Sorry, golani - I forget that English isn’t your first language. “Gang-banger” is current slang for a member of a criminal street gang, not what you apparently took it for - an earlier slang meaning. 
I am cautious around people with a history of violent criminality as a general matter because it tends to be an indication of poor impulse control and anger management issues. But I actually wouldn’t be concerned that Jose Padilla was likely to be involved in a terrorist plot, for much the same reasons. The question here is whether Jose Padilla make a credible plotter of terrorist acts like 9/11, Oklahoma City, the Unibomber, the Atlanta Olympics, Palestinian suicide bombing, etc. I haven’t seen anything which causes me to believe that he is. The fact that he was linked, with much fanfare, to “dirty bombs”, makes the entire question of his actual danger suspect to me.</p>
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<p>Wow, crumudgeon, you sure scare easily.</p>
<p>Here are just a few of the things that happened in the world of Jihad this week. Now THIS stuff is scary…</p>
<p>Right in Georgia (yes, the USA), an Ethopian Muslim immigrant who had used scissors to remove his two year old daughter’s clitoris in the family’s apartment was sentenced to 10 years in prison.</p>
<p>A Saudi court sentenced a gang rape VICTIM to 90 lashes.</p>
<p>Australiian hospitals reported they have treated over 50 Muslim women for genital mutilation in the last year.</p>
<p>An A lQaeda suicide bomber killed 42 soldiers in Pakistan.</p>
<p>A Muslim panchayat has driven an Indian mom of four out of her village because she was raped. THey annulled her marriage & she is now homeless, even though her husband realizes the rape was not her fault. (How enlightened of him!)</p>
<p>Three jhadists are currently on trial in Indonesia for BEHEADING three Christian girls. </p>
<p>A Muslim protester who carried placards stating “Behead those who insult Islam” outside the Danish Embassy in LOndon & called for another 9-11 was found guilty of stirring up race hate, but not of inciting murder.</p>
<p>Haven’t heard from Australia’s leading Muslim cleric this week, though. Remember him? He claims that immodestly dressed women incite rape because they are like “uncovered meat.”</p>
<p>Oh, and in various Muslim strongholds throughout the world, the Jewish apes & pigs were villified, as usual.</p>
<p>what do you feel is the profile of the terrorist- dont you also think that the arab suicide bomber would be different from the unibomber and even more different from oklahmoa and atlanta olympic bomber</p>
<p>Golani, clearly there isn’t one profile. But a latino gang member who converts to Islam in prison and then allegedly wanders around mumbling out loud about things like “dirty bombs” - no, that’s not the guy who worries me a whole lot. He’s a schmoe, not an evil genius. “Dirty bombs” are the next best thing to an actual hoax weapon; the fact that the government made a big deal out of Padilla’s alleged “plot” to blow one up sets off my BS meter. If that’s bogus, what is true?</p>
<p>None of us actually know how bogus it is. The shoebomber reid was also a shmoe. Look what he did. You are right about there not being a single profile but there are two that usually fit reltaivley young to middle aged muslim of middle eastern orgin or a prison/street convert to islam</p>
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How do you connect Ethiopian immigrants engaged in genital mutilation with Islamic-jihadists?</p>
<p>some Ethiopians are muslim</p>
<p>SS, </p>
<p>So what’s your solution? War on the muslims or education? </p>
<p>We (white western world) are not too far removed from the things you cite. We’ve burned witches, tourtured nonbelievers, sentenced unwed mothers to hard work in Catholic laundries and so on…</p>
<p>How did we leave that behind? What haven’t we tried in the middle east?</p>
<p>I know, I’m just seeing if you are open to it.</p>
<p>i believe its a war on islam</p>
<p>StickerShock - I fail to understand why you think your news clippings should somehow reflect poorly on Democrats. I’m a Democrat. I’m opposed to genital mutilation, religious beliefs that require women to hide and make themselves invisible, beheading, punishing the victims of rape.</p>
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<p>Do you have a more “relaible” source for Arabic to English translations? That is, other than the Al-Jazeera English website that carries just their program translations as far as I can tell. </p>
<p>As far as being unreliable, the case against MEMRI rests on the following points:
- links on the site to evangelical Christian organizations (horrors!)
- the founder and various employees have links to the Israeli government or IDF and charges that MEMRI functions as a PR arm for the Israelis (who else speaks both English and Arabic fluently and is motivated to expose the pronouncements of the mullahs to the western world?)
- that it is selective in what it translates and only translates articles that show muslims in a negative light (they claim to monitor multiple Arabic media 18 hours a day. I guess someone expects them to give equal time to translating the weather forecasts for Dubai and the rantings of some homicidal cleric)</p>
<p>Dont worry. MEMRI is one of the if not the most reliable translation of arabic media. The fact is this is simply what muslim and arab media publish. occasionaly there is a moderate article or press conferance by someone and i have seen them on MEMRI before.</p>
<p>Such as: <a href=“Egyptian Reformist Renews Attack on Muslim Brotherhood | MEMRI”>Egyptian Reformist Renews Attack on Muslim Brotherhood | MEMRI;
<p><a href=“Wife of Imprisoned Egyptian Al-Ghad Party Leader: 'Dictatorship Leads to Extremism and Terrorism' | MEMRI”>Wife of Imprisoned Egyptian Al-Ghad Party Leader: 'Dictatorship Leads to Extremism and Terrorism' | MEMRI;
<p>or <a href=“Harsh Internal Criticism in the Palestinian Press | MEMRI”>Harsh Internal Criticism in the Palestinian Press | MEMRI;
<p>or even <a href=“Abu Mazen Calls to Stop the Firing of Missiles Into Israel | MEMRI”>Abu Mazen Calls to Stop the Firing of Missiles Into Israel | MEMRI;
<p>and there are many more.</p>
<p>Golani, you are crystal clear in your intent, which is to malign an entire race of people.</p>
<p>Nearly every post of yours is bigoted or racist. I think by now we all know that you hate Arabs. So stop already.</p>
<p>Show me one post and explain why its racist against Arabs.</p>
<p>I just did a search for arabic and this came up as the first hit.</p>
<p>I have been studying arabic for four years now and it is part of my job to follow Aljazeera. I certainly have not read every arabic word published in the last couple of days but I’ve read a lot. It has only been a proffessional acount of the election, actually more so than what I read in the English news. I even read the intelligent and thoughful comments by arab readers from around the world. I am not saying anything about terrorisist and what I think they think. I am just defending Aljazeera, a truly great thing for the Middle East.</p>
<p>Also, the English version of Aljazeera and the Arabic version are completely different. They write for their audience and want to succeed almost as much, if not more, in the English speaking world as they do in the Arab speaking world. The English version is NOT in any way a translation of the main site.</p>
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<p>So?</p>
<p>Some Ethiopians are Jewish.</p>
<p>And some Ethiopians are Christian.</p>
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<p>Really? That’s very interesting. I’d love to hear more about the differences.</p>