Paris Mayhem

I think we should help those refugees who need it, but I'm not going to worry too much if they have to wait a few more months so we can be somewhat assured we will be safe.

 

It really IS worth the long read. I'm working my way through still, but a couple of things jump out.

First, in relevance to this thread:

Tens of thousands of foreign Muslims are thought to have immigrated to the Islamic State. Recruits hail from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Australia, Indonesia, the United States, and many other places. Many have come to fight, and many intend to die.

And, to the discussion about Muslims in general:

Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy. But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam. ... Being a Shiite, as most Iraqi Arabs are, meets the standard as well, because the Islamic State regards Shiism as innovation, and to innovate on the Koran is to deny its initial perfection. ... That means roughly 200 million Shia are marked for death. So too are the heads of state of every Muslim country, who have elevated man-made law above Sharia by running for office or enforcing laws not made by God.

Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people. The lack of objective reporting from its territory makes the true extent of the slaughter unknowable, but social-media posts from the region suggest that individual executions happen more or less continually, and mass executions every few weeks. Muslim “apostates” are the most common victims.

 

A refugee family's story. Pretty sure this story warms Obama and Baron's hearts.

A Refugee Family's Story | Common Sense Central on News/Talk 1130 WISN

The final two paragraphs:

 

Don't let this get in your way:

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Tsarnaevs had received refugee status. The parents of the Tsarnaev brothers reached the United States on tourist visas and applied for asylum. To get asylum, an applicant must meet the definition of a refugee, but unlike a refugee he or she has already reached the United States and is subject to a different application process. After the Tsarnaevs obtained asylee status, they successfully applied for derivative asylee status for their children. The story has been corrected.

 

I'll counter with this:

"Being himself a German Jew, Einstein cultivated an outspoken political personality and was well known for his pacifist ideals. His work, paired with his political persona triggered negative attention from extreme right-wing groups.

Anti-Semites were determined to publicize his discoveries as “un-German”. The rise of the Nazi party made it more and more difficult for Einstein to work in Germany, so in 1932 when offered a position at Princeton University, he accepted, retaining dual U.S. and Swiss citizenship.

While his theories were still widely taught, he was ultimately accused of treason in 1933 by the Nazi Third Reich; winning the party a partial victory when Einstein’s name could no longer be mentioned in academic circles. Although Einstein was not in Germany at the time, Nazi fanatics still had his property seized and his books were among those burned on the famous May 10, 1933, as a symbol of purging an “un-German” spirit.

He fled to the United States on October 17th of that year, using his fame and financial resources to work vigorously with his wife to obtain U.S. visas for other German Jew refugees. Einstein had haunting mixed feelings about his life in Princeton."

Albert Einstein: The Refugee

Next.

 

I've lost track. Last I looked, I was winning 4671-0. Thanks to the misplaced apostrophe, now it's 4671-1.

To follow up what I said to Reacher, from now on, you'll be known as the Washington Generals of SJ, since even they beat the Globetrotters once.

 

#delusional

 

Says the guy who thinks that Russians should no longer be allowed in the United States.

 

Save the snark. At this point in history, Christians aren't killing hundreds and thousands of people to hasten the end.

 

They're just praying for them to die in order to hasten the end. And they believe prayer works.

 

#delusional

 

It's Tony Two-Times.