The son of one of the terrorists who brought down the World Trade Centre chose peace.
Jewish comedian Jon Stewart was more a father figure than his biological Dad.
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Category: Islam
definition of ‘terrorist’
This guy is a terrorist.
He killed 9 people in a Church stating that “Blacks have to go.”
This guy is a terrorist too.
I believe he mainly hates Gays. But since he mentioned inspiration by ISIS I’d certainly call him a Jihadist, as well.
There shouldn’t be any confusion on the definition. What we need to be talking about is how to stop future mass shootings. 😦
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Happy Nazis in Auschwitz
Normal people capable of pure EVIL. 😦
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Makes me worry about Trump and his supporters.
refugees arrive in Parksville
Musa Hodale Ali said he is happy to be working at Parksville’s Tim Hortons while he adapts to his new home and explores options.
He was sponsored by local Tim Hortons owners Ed and Lilian Mayne and the Qualicum Community Baptist Church. 🙂
He spent most of the last six years in refugee camps in Ethiopia. 😦
Completing a six-year journey from Eritrea in East Africa, the first refugees of a recent wave have hit the Parksville Qualicum Beach shore.
Musa Hodale Ali and Mohammed Subhat arrived on Vancouver Island on March 9, and within a week had among the most Canadian jobs possible, at Tim Hortons. …
A high school teacher back home who studied applied physics and economics, Hodale Ali admits he’s looking for more skilled work, but is quick to add that he’s basically just arrived and is giving himself time to adapt. …
Refugees arrive in Parksville
I’ll drop by and welcome him to Canada, myself. Canada needs immigrants.
P.S. How’s the Canadian economy doing under that socialist Trudeau?
Economy off to ‘roaring start’ as Canada sees biggest gain since 2013
Homeland season 5
… premiered on October 4, 2015, and concluded on December 20, 2015 …
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, an ex-CIA intelligence officer with bipolar disorder, now working for a philanthropic foundation in Berlin. …
The season includes several real world subjects in its storylines; including ISIS, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, the Charlie Hebdo shooting,Edward Snowden and European migrant crisis. …
I admired seeing an American TV show move to Europe. It’s must watch, no matter how much Carrie irritates you. No other current television series offers as important commentary on the state of the world.
That said, Mike Sissons – who lived many years in Arab countries – tells me it’s controversial with Muslims. Too many stereotype characters. Mike’s not actually watched the show himself.
My feeling is that the show is quite balanced. It shows the stupidity of U.S. foreign policy. There are no good guys in this show.
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related – “Homeland” season 6 premiere date is speculated to be October 2, 2016.
Republican Party anti-Islamic rhetoric
Led by Trump, most the GOP candidates are rushing to blame their problems on a minority. As they have in the past.
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expats working in the Gulf
Palm trees, Vegas-style clubs, tax-free salaries, perfectly manicured promenades. Something about Dubai, the most famous of the seven kingdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, makes living in the desert seem exotic and luxurious. …
About 80% of Dubai’s 2 million or so residents are foreigners …
Even though salaries are comparable with their European and North American counterparts, you won’t pay income taxes, which means you’ll be earning about 40% more. …
The expats I know in Riyadh and Doha are happy with conditions, overall. Our Gymnasium caretaker in Riyadh is now home in India for a 2 month holiday, for example. He has no plans to leave Saudi.
Here’s the other side of the story. 😦 The horror stories are mostly low paid construction workers.
Qatar’s failure to enact meaningful reforms for its kafala (sponsorship) system leaves hundreds of thousands of low-paid migrant workers at serious risk of forced labor and other abuses. Reforms announced on October 27, 2015, still require low-paid migrant workers to get their employer’s permission to change jobs or to leave the country, a system that that prevents workers from leaving abusive employers.
The new sponsorship law, law no. 21 of 2015, refers to “recruiters” instead of “sponsors” but it leaves the fundamentally exploitative characteristics of the kafala system in place. …
related:
Inside Assad’s Syria | FRONTLINE
Like most people who have visited Syria, I loved the place. The people are extremely welcoming to visitors.
I’ve been following the terrible, terrible disaster. With sadness.
I thought I knew something about the civil war. The best information I’ve seen is a new 55min documentary by PBS correspondent Martin Smith.
On-the-ground reporting and firsthand accounts from Syrians caught in the crisis.
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Insanely, it highlights a new tourist resort in Homs only 10 miles from rebel fighting. 😦
After watching it, I blame the U.N. Security Council much more. Russia is propping up al-Assad.
Bashar Hafez al-Assad is the President of Syria, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Ba’ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party’s branch in Syria. In 2000 he succeeded Hafez al-Assad, his father, who had led Syria for 30 years until his death. …
In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel was killed in a car crash, Bashar was recalled (from Medical School in England) to Syria to take over Bassel’s role as heir apparent. He entered the military academy, taking charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1998. In December 2000, Assad married Asma Assad …
Once seen by the domestic and international community as a potential reformer, Assad disappointed those expectations definitively when he ordered mass crackdowns and military sieges on Arab Spring protesters, leading to the Syrian Civil War. …
… the United States, Canada, the European Union and the majority of the Arab League have called for al-Assad’s resignation from the presidency. …
… an inquiry by the United Nations human rights chief found evidence to implicate Assad in war crimes and crimes against humanity. …
Hafez al-Assad has to go. He’s not as bad as we’ve heard, but he’s bad. When al-Assad does flee, more innocents will die in the resulting fight for power. I can’t see any road map to peace in the near future. Many Syrians are willing to die in that struggle. 😦
Asma al-Assad was born to Syrian-born parents, raised and educated in the United Kingdom, and graduated from King’s College London in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and French literature. …
She was described by analysts and in media as an important part of the public relations effort of the Syrian government early in her tenure as first lady and she was credited with taking progressive positions on women’s rights and education. …
Laura once had lunch with the first lady. She and the war criminal have 3 children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. 😦
deaths from extremist attacks USA since 9/11
I don’t see how authorities could have stopped most of these extremist attacks. 😦
… both tolls are tiny compared with the tally of conventional murders, more than 200,000 over the same period. But the disproportionate focus they draw in the news media and their effect on public fear demand the attention of any administration. …
Rick McCharles 