Wow. Wait until this guy hear about Trumps attacks on Syria...
https://wonkette.com/615159/trump-outraged-obama-took-his-advice-and-didnt-bomb-hell-out-of-syria
pesident trump authorized the missile strike because “it is in the vital, national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons.” .
59 tomahawk missiles were launched from two us navy ships.. russia has condemned the action.. https://youtu.be/4svp3yfneyq.
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Wow. Wait until this guy hear about Trumps attacks on Syria...
https://wonkette.com/615159/trump-outraged-obama-took-his-advice-and-didnt-bomb-hell-out-of-syria
pesident trump authorized the missile strike because “it is in the vital, national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons.” .
59 tomahawk missiles were launched from two us navy ships.. russia has condemned the action.. https://youtu.be/4svp3yfneyq.
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Where is LUHE? The images of gassed children make me wish for some reassuring Assad is really a very sensible guy we should really work with in order of defeating the Islamic state. After all, backing a middle-eastern dictator who gassed his own population has never backfired no?
More on topic, it seems that (a) Syrians are psychic or (b) someone tipped them off. I wonder how that could have happened..
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel.
what can we make of this?
rice is on record being a racist and lying about benghazi, now this?
Can you believe it? I was pulled over for running a red light and the cop FREKKIN' RAN MY NUMBER PLATE.
If the cop ran my number plate for some reason unrelated to running the red light, that would be totally illegal. Sure, I don't have any proof of this, but I can speculate because I don't know his reasons either. The bottom line is that this MIGHT be an ILLEGAL invasion of my privacy provided I assume he didn't do it because it is his job.
Investigations should be started...
just when you thought you've heard it all, out comes some new information on the russian hijacking of our election.
former fbi agent clint watts testified about the full extent of russian interference.
it goes back further than we thought; more extensive and broader in its reach (marco rubio was in their sights); and with greater planning.. even russians who were in charge of this fake news operation have mysteriously died.. watts told the committee to “follow the dead bodies” to learn more, referring to several russians connected to kremlin fake news who have died in the past few months.. what else can we expect from such a murderous thug who expresses such gratitude to his own men?
There are some interesting theories making the rounds. One is that the hacked voter databases (mentioned in the original intelligence report) may have been used for targeted ads in places like Michigan.
Because it is Friday, here is a video of Trump being asked about Flynn at a bill-signing ceremony, then leaves the room without signing the bill.
mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.
morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.
using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.
It is estimated that it would take 10X10^21 mutations to get five condons to mutate in the right order.
1) Just for my own sake, how do you compute this number?
2) How does this number disprove evolution? (what is the full argument as to why this computation shows Humans and Chimps do not have a shared ancestor)
so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.
how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?
how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.
Once again, it's intellectually dishonest to claim Islam is being currently reformed when you can count reformers on the fingers of your hands and these people need police protection to stop Muslims from killing them.
Well, wanna bet 100$ I can find more than 10 Muslim reformers?
The reformation of Christianity in medieval times also started with few people. Anyway, my claim was that there are Muslim moderates. Since you describe Nawaz as, in your words, "a Sunni Muslim who is reformed", this seems to hold up.
That I agree with Ali that reform should be a key component in combatting Islamic extremism, and you believe that it should have a greater focus on military and working with Putin, is not really something we are going to settle. I wonder how such a military strategy should be carried out in practice, i.e. who should be invaded and in which order (Iran, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Marocco, Indonesia, ...) but I am becoming too tired of this discussion to really ask: military and bombs it is. I wonder if you imagine that you yourself will fight in these wars, or it is better left for others.
A first step in the Putin strategy could be to ask Putin to sometimes deliver defective weapons to anti-US insurgents:
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/13/515020244/why-is-russia-helping-anti-u-s-insurgents-in-afghanistan
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/putin-may-be-supplying-taliban-general-says/
so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.
how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?
how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.
yes, Maajid Nawaz is a reformed person. But his version of Islam (Sunni) happens to be the largest sect and is currently pressing for Sharia in many places in the world.
I agree with both of these statements
It would be intellectually dishonest to claim that Sunni Islam is undergoingreformation or enlightenment.
I have pointed to attempts at reforming Islam which is being undertaken by current and former Muslims. If they are ultimately going to be successful in converting a significant number of Muslims I do not know.
I have never claimed or believed there is such a general "enlightenment" taken place of all Sunis...
no, obviously not. Saudi is our ally and largely keeps its crazies in check.
Saudi-Arabia is the largest exporter of political Islam... It keeps its crazies in check insofar they don't threaten the Islamic dictatorship currently in place in Saudi Arabia but otherwise it is exporting Islamism at a rapid rate. When you see a newly build mosque full of crazies in Europe chances are Saudi money is involved.
Droning and bombing Islamists in Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya makes sense.
I support limited use of drone strikes against militants as I wrote... I also supported the invasion of Afghanistan.
What kind of military action asides drone strikes is it you propose or is this another case where it is assumed I mean something opposite of what have clearly written?
so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.
how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?
how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.
@bohm - Maajid Nawaz is a Sunni Muslim who is reformed. Millions of Sunnis want to kill him. Sunnis are the majority.
I mean there are versions of Islam which are reformed - which versions are there?
I was referring to Islam as practiced by Nawaz. Look, you even acknowledge that he practices a form of reformed Islam. As you wrote, "Maajid Nawaz is a Sunni Muslim who is reformed.". If you are interested in an itemization of all forms of Islam I suggest you begin with wikipedia.
I believe we should engage in a campaign to combat Islamism primarily through non-military means - this is totally nuts. Islamism must be fought militarily.
Interesting. Invasion of Saudi-Arabia is on the cards?
I will simply note that one of ISIS strategies is to draw the west into large, land-wars in Arabic countries. It may work out for us or it might not. Meanwhile I would support the suggestions by Ali as they appear better researched.
so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.
how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?
how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.
Simon: We can either have a civilized resistance and push back or it can descend into anarchy and chaos where hundreds of thousands, possibly millions die.*
As I have written many times now, I believe we should engage in a campaign to combat Islamism primarily through non-military means. To say that I do not believe this is simply from my perspective flat out wrong.
I cited Alis report as an example of the means that I think should be used. It may be that what she propose is not feasible because Muslims will never in large quantities accept a reformed version of Islam. But then I ask again: If not the ones Ali outline, what concrete steps would you advocate to combat Islamism?
so it is now two days after another islamic terrorist attack.
how many muslims are in the streets protesting and condemning this evil?
how many are marching in all the big cities condemning this in mass protests?.
but Maajid Nawaz has to live under police protection, otherwise Muslims will kill him.
This strongly suggests that Islam cannot be reformed.
You are equivocating on the word "can". When I write that Islam can be reformed it should be apparent (because I have written it several times so far) that I mean there are versions of Islam which are reformed. Nawaz himself is one such reformed Muslim (assuming you accept he is both a Muslim and reformed).