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I too studied a bit of HL Mencken...and found his writing a bit dry....but always felt that it still rung true to today's events.
That quote below is truly a gem and so on point...boy did i miss a zinger in some of my readings. Quote:
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For a slightly different approach to real estate buying an selling try REDFIN. http://press.redfin.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=252734&p=irol-about
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The nut jobbers are right this time. My deaf, blind, mute an physically incapacitated neighbor rented out the local VFW to a bunch muslims on 9/11 so they could celebrate the dropping of the towers.
He was so disgusted he didnt report it. But he did say that, they sure know how to put on a great spread. He had a great time drinking peach schnapps an dancing to the BeeGees. So don't you dare call my neighbor a liar!!!!!!!
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Third Street as you pointed out below, " There is nothing anything fearful...."
I found the opposite on this thread....and i have posted those comments i find most disturbing. The Following are quotes an statements made by many that I find disturbing: Hopefully the people of Paris wake up and vote in a far right party, who will properly acknowledge and deal with the problem. Maybe we should first recognize that importing Muslims = importing terrorists. Not all Muslims are terrorists but all of these terrorists are Muslim. That wasn't clear from his post but thank you. Ben Norton should be on the list then. However, although quoting someone else's reprehensible statements isn't as bad, the fact remains that this is the same sentiment expressed by Osama Bin Laden. The fact that a "progressive" outlet has completely lost sight of that, or doesn't care, speaks volumes about the current state of their ideology. It sounds like you need to be placed on a watchlist Asif ... you are aware that non-radical muslims are fighting radical muslims in Syria? Then we can stop accepting these hordes of "refugees." Then we can spy on mosques and deport the Muslims who show radical tendencies. No camps required. Foreign will use the oppressed natives of the county they are "attacking" an easy employee to implement their deed. remember the box cutter incident on the plane ? Sometimes the innocent must suffer, I'm getting tired of being kiced around and responding "thank you sir may I have another" loodthirsty Muslims have been killing each other, committing acts of terrorism, and taking slaves for literally the entirety of recorded history. For one of many examples, Muslims on the Barbary Coast of North Africa used to invade Europe and take white slaves. They did this from the 15th - 19th centuries, taking over 1 million white slaves. Long before any "imperialist" nonsense came about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade So no, when more bloodthirsty "refugee" Muslims decide to hold mass executions in France and slaughter 150 innocents, it is not the West's fault. Here's what Winston Churchill had to say about Islam, back in 1899 (before the U.S. and its allies "bombed weddings and hospitals"): ?How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property?either as a child, a wife, or a concubine?must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science?the science against which it had vainly struggled?the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome." Bloodthirsty Muslims have been killing each other, committing acts of terrorism, and taking slaves for literally the entirety of recorded history. For one of many examples, Muslims on the Barbary Coast of North Africa used to invade Europe and take white slaves. They did this from the 15th - 19th centuries, taking over 1 million white slaves. Long before any "imperialist" nonsense came about. This is true, the girls in harems were Europeans removed from passenger ships. There was a movie, based on writings of one of these girls, who was French. You sound like the typical candidate for radicalisation by extremist groups ... It sounds as if you believe what happened in Paris could be justified ... maybe living in the US isn't for you! ecause people in Paris live in a modern, civilized democracy. Not backwards shitholes that have been cesspools of violence for all of human history. Also, the US does not intentionally kill innocent civilians, while this is the only thing the Muslim terrorists know how to do. Once Islam moves past the 7th century, then maybe you'll see more sympathy over what happens in Islamic theocracies. And there was plenty of sympathy for the innocent victims in the downed Russian airlines, not sure what you are talking about. And like I said, Muslims have been committing terrorism, brutal atrocities, and taking slaves long before the "conservatives/neo conservatives" ever came to power. Asif, an ISIS sympathizer, spammed a Salon piece which blamed the victims, and where every single top comment ripped the "article" apart and called it digusting. And Manu claims that John Oliver "took on" the Paris attacks. You want to use John Oliver as some kind of moral example for anything? Monroe wrote: Nonsense. How can we 'screen' these people? Call the Syrian Embassy? Ask Isis? Why are over 70% of the 'refugees' men under 30? Where are the women? Children? Grandparents? Please stop the Muslims from entering he United States, and send back recent ones until they go through a detailed check as we did with those who came here before them. t's reported she was a cousin to the terrorist who masterminded the attacks. So you see, these muslim terrorists works within the family too. Obama is wrong on what he said, YES, Obama, WOMEN and even children (watch Fareed Zakaria's Blindsided-how ISIS/Al quaeda teach kids as young as 5 to become terrorists) can be terrorists too! Who knows. She might just be meat to the 72 Virgins. Hey, Mr. Deluded "Progressive." I don't have to go anywhere. My Governor has some common sense. Perhaps you should go move to one of the minority of states who would welcome these time bombs. Better yet, move out to the Middle East so you can be surrounded by your people. In case you still don't understand, actual progressives are good. But they are in rare supply. There are a lot more "progressives," who are anything but. The core of their regressive ideology which is turning into their religion is that Republicans are bad, especially straight white Republicans, who they consider to be the equivalent of the Devil. They claim to care for minorities, but they really don't. They only find them useful for their votes. As evidence, look how vicious "progressives" will treat a black conservative such as Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson. They will also find a way to blame white people for absolutely everything at every turn. Angry black mobs seem to be the Popes of their religion, utterly infallible no matter what. They do vote 96% Democrat, after all! Some of them are so truly deluded that they'd tell you they'd rather live among Muslims in the Middle East than in a conservative town.The author of that looney "piece" that was presented squarely fits into all of the above. I believe you are indirectly supporting ISIS and terrorism by fighting to bring in the refugees. There will be plenty of good refugees, but there will be terrorists among them. It is going to lead to attacks here. So you may not realize it, but this is what you are supporting. Atsushi, you seem like a classic crazy uncle type yourself. Getting all worked up over this issue, going around posting links to just about anything you come across which supports your way of thinking. lol Quote:
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In one of my posts...i wrote that although i don't want more violence....ISIS can only be stopped with boots on the ground.
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You know little about me. Below is my first comment that i posted in this thread.
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http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first ... in-new-jersey-on-sept-11/ No news reports exist of people cheering in the streets, and both police officials and the mayor of Jersey City have said that it did not happen. An Internet rumor about people cheering in the streets, which said it was in Paterson, not Jersey City, has been denied numerous times by city and police officials. Quote:
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False Brag Attack
Someone claiming to be part of Anonymous warned of an imminent ISIS attack at a WWE event (and other locations), but @YourAnonNews disavowed the statement. http://www.snopes.com/isis-wwe-attack/
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You know i think you have a point. My grandpa Abe told me stories....luckily i have it on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kH3sjFmpaE Quote:
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Not surprised about what you wrote even though you know nothing of me. And it almost makes me angry.....but what will that accomplish??? If you did read the article, you would know that "This is why........
That statement from beginning to end....was taken from the article. I know the truth can be scary that's why you answered me back with fear an hate. I am not smart enough to say what i mean so....i turn to the gentleman below to get my meaning across. ?The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.? Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote:
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Thanks. Although, i personally don't want more violence...ISIS unfortunately can only be stopped with boots on the ground.
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This is why they hate us: The real American history neither Ted Cruz nor the New York Times will tell you We talk democracy, then overthrow elected governments and prop up awful regimes. Let's discuss the actual history http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/this_ ... york_times_will_tell_you/ Quote:
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?There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.?
Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
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I think we can all agree that everyone complains about taxes. I have never heard anyone say, "paying taxes is fun"!
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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John McCain On Refugees: 'All Children Are God's Children'
He strongly disagreed with Republican calls to ban Muslim refugees, but accept Christians. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/j ... _564b9d61e4b08cda348b46b6 I haven't always agreed with him especially his turn to the right...when he was running for President with Palin....but gosh seeing him step up like this is awesome. The man is a true hero in so many ways.
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I was never upset nor did i get upset concerning the individual who wishes to defend our country.
All I wanted to know is how do you defend this country? Last time i checked we have several layers of law enforcement who's job it is to defend us and be there for us in emergencies. Many individuals on this post have expressed xenophobic, racist, and out right hate towards various groups. Several individuals have alluded or out right have called me a terrorist and some have called for my internment. Several have called for unfettered bombings of individuals even if they have nothing to do with terrorism. See the comments posted by the user HEIGHTS. I don't have to prove my loyalty especially when i have not challenged someone's love for America. How have I defended this nation? I don't know what i can do besides the following: I vote in all the elections local, state, federal. I have not committed any crimes...other than a parking ticket and once a moving violation(running a red light). I pay my taxes. I volunteer. Looking to volunteer this Thanksgiving. I try to donate when i have the money. I try to be polite and patient and say thank you to all that i am dealing with on a day to day basis. I try to be aware of my surroundings. Once, i saw a guy looking into the windows of parked cars and saw him swipe some tools from a contractors van....upon seeing that i called the police an alerted the owner. They caught the guy and...the owner wanted to give me a small reward. I refused. Hopefully you see where i am going with this. I try to be decent person... a decent citizen...all though i am sure that i make mistakes all the time. Quote:
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Jalepeno Hummus. Its so good an am greatfull they only have small an medium tubs any bigger and id be big as a house. I haven't had falafels forever....need to find time to hit up Mamouns at Washington Square. Quote:
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Lol okay, maybe you can offer your services to law enforcement agencies. I think they can use the levity...after all they appreciate all those psychics.
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Oh i see what you did there, making a veiled allusion that im some how sympathetic to ISIS. Nice smear.
I wasn't questioning that he wouldn't defend his country.....just when would he? How would he? Will they wait for him to get to the scene before they start their attack? I hear lots of talk an frothing from the mouth of all the yahoos on this forum but no action. Quote:
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Most people regardless of their backgrounds, culture, faith...etc...want to live their lives in peace. It shouldn't be a surprise that most people would and do flee conflict. Most people fled during WWI and WWII. Why would it be any different in current conflicts?
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I am assuming then you've booked your ticket to Syria to fight ISIS. Good luck brave sir. Quote:
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http://www.salon.com/2015/11/18/this_ ... dominated_by_racism_rage/ For the right, the Paris attacks did not foster solidarity but rather a macabre gloating: their paranoid creed that refugees and migrants invite death and destruction has supposedly been vindicated. The idea is a Fortress America defended with high walls and lethal air strikes. Keep migrants and refugees out; run sorties without regard for civilian casualties. Conservative politics is plumbing new depths of hysteria because the world is indeed spinning out of control. The worse things get, the more dangerous right-wing explanations become. Bitterness is cresting as militants emerge out of destroyed rogue states to simultaneously wage conventional warfare and asymmetric terrorism. Wounded soldiers see the cities they bled to ?liberate? fall to ISIS control; they are told, in a tinny post-Vietnam echo, not that they fought for a bad war but that Obama sold them out by withdrawing troops. We?ve been stabbed in the back: domestic traitors open the door to foreign enemies. Xenophobia is a critical feature of white supremacy in the United States. And white supremacy is at the root of the right-wing explanation of ?what is wrong with America.? Most critically, racism is the right?s only explanation for the economic crisis because immigrants must take the blame for low wages?at least if the corporations that shipped jobs overseas and crushed unions are to be spared public opprobrium. This year, the national security threat and the economic peril posed by foreigners has morphed into a singular menace. America, as Trump says, never wins anymore. That?s true. The question is who to blame. The political fight is over how to explain what?s gone wrong. White supremacy is how the right displaces people?s anger from the wealthy. The only substitute for bigotry and violence is solidarity. Racism is resilient and adaptable. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in the wake of the Civil War to defeat Reconstruction and reimpose black subjugation. A second iteration of the Klan boomed in the 1920s, attacking foreigners, Catholics and Jews. In France, National Front party, with clear roots in Nazi sympathy, has jettisoned its traditional anti-Semitism in favor of Islamophobia, more palatable to the contemporary European mindset. Today, unrepentant white supremacists in the United States have hailed the nativist turn in domestic politics as a vehicle to advance and mainstream a brazenly racist political agenda. But many conservatives have also flocked to Ben Carson. He is a bigot who by virtue of being black offers them absolution, as Jelani Cobb argues. ?That the party responsible for the Southern strategy, the racist populism of the Reagan era, and the current age of voter suppression can count a black neurosurgeon among its most popular Presidential candidate is in itself a form of vaccination against charges of racism,? Cobb writes. White racism against black people remains the central feature of American white supremacy but it prevails most forcefully in the structural racism that produces second-class school systems, economic marginalization and mass incarceration. Acknowledged bigotry against black people, however, has become disallowed in the political mainstream thanks to centuries of black struggle. American racism, however, cannot do without some embodied evil. Mexicans and Arabs fulfill a role that black bodies can no longer so brazenly play in the iconography of American white supremacy. The hatred of Mexicans and Muslims is the permitted public expression of that same white racist order?and legitimates it. Note that Obama is more often called a Kenyan or a Muslim than he is a certain verboten anti-black slur. The possibility that one of the Paris attackers was a Syrian who hid himself amongst the refugee tide now justifies closing borders in Europe, and in the United States. One Republican governor after another announces that Syrians are not welcome, and demands that cities turn their own police forces against Mexican residents. That single potential Syrian attacker has received more media attention than the fact that most of the attackers appear to be French. The refugee flow to be worried about is that of ISIS recruits fleeing a second-class life in Europe, who then wreak terror upon an imaginary homeland inhabited by real people who want nothing to do with a fantastical and cruel caliphate.
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AlexC you are the best!!!!!!!!!! For a follow up to my Fanon quote which can be found several comments down....i had narrowed it down to MLK, Said, Chomsky and Yoda. About 35 more days until the new movie. Have a good one! Quote:
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Wonkblog Hating Muslims plays right into the Islamic State?s hands After the terrorist attacks Friday night in Paris, it did not take long for anti-Muslim forces to lash out around the world. A mosque in Canada was deliberately set on fire Saturday, Ontario police say. In Oregon, anti-Muslim protesters held a rally outside the Portland Rizwan Mosque, one of them with a shirt that said ?Proud to be an infidel. Islam is a LIE.? In Florida, the Islamic Center of St. Petersburg received a bomb threat over voice mail: ?We are tired of your [expletive] and I [expletive] personally have a militia that is going to come down to your Islamic Society of Pinellas County and firebomb you and shoot whoever is there in the head,? the caller said, according to News 13. And in France, while politicians stressed national unity, local news outlets reported several incidents of mosques, kebab restaurants and halal butcher shops being vandalized with hate messages. A tribute in Lille for the victims of the attacks was disrupted by demonstrators carrying a banner that read: ?Expel the Islamists.? This is what the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, wants. ?This is precisely what ISIS was aiming for ? to provoke communities to commit actions against Muslims,? said Arie Kruglanski, a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland who studies how people become terrorists. ?Then ISIS will be able to say, ?I told you so. These are your enemies, and the enemies of Islam.?? The moments after a terrorist attack are often filled with acts of reprisal. In the six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, anti-Muslim violence and mosque vandalism more than quadrupled compared with the same period in 2014, according to the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, a watchdog group. Extremist groups feed off of alienation, some counterterrorism experts say, and Islamist militants deliberately aim to make Muslims in the West feel isolated and turn against their own communities. According to this line of thinking, acts of terrorism widen the cultural divide by provoking hate crimes against Muslims in the West. This strategy gained traction in the early 2000s after al-Qaeda was sent into hiding by Western military action. Abu Musab al-Suri, an influential jihadi thinker whom the Wall Street Journal called ?the new mastermind of jihad,? argued for a distributed network of terrorist cells recruited from the Islamic diaspora, carrying out terrorist strikes in their own communities. These attacks, and the backlash they generated, would inspire other to radicalize. "What the Islamic State wants to do is to start a civil war,? political scientist Gilles Kepel said Saturday in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde. Kepel, a professor at Sciences Po and an Islamic State expert, has extensively studied the ideology and strategies of modern-day jihadis. Al-Suri, Kepel said, had a vision: ?a proliferation of blind attacks that will provoke lynchings of Muslims, attacks on mosques, harassment of women in veils, and create hotspots of war that will put fire and sword to Europe, seen as the soft underbelly of the West." The attacks on Paris this weekend seemed to follow al-Suri?s script. Four of the terrorists have been identified as French or Belgian nationals who were recruited in the West. And if these early incidents are any indication, anti-Muslim sentiment will again surge in Europe, further distancing Muslim communities. A study published last year in the Economic Journal found that the spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes after 9/11 led to a decline in assimilation rates in American Muslim communities. In places where hate crimes increased the most, Muslim immigrants in subsequent years spoke English less fluently, were less likely to marry non-Muslims, and women were less likely to be working. These trends occurred independently of pre-existing patterns of immigration. As the authors write, the results ?suggest that terror groups may try to provoke a backlash against their own ethnic or religious group in the targeted country, in order to halt the assimilation of Muslim adherents into Western society.? The problem of alienation is particularly acute in Europe, where there are large populations of Muslim immigrants concentrated in ethnic enclaves, who suffer discrimination and lack economic opportunity. ?A territorial, social, ethnic apartheid has spread across our country,? is how French Prime Minister Manuel Valls described the situation in January after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. For some youths living in France, the situation can quickly become a recipe for radicalization. Kruglanski?s research investigates why people join groups like the Islamic State. He argues that recruits are propelled by a need for respect and self-esteem. ?It?s the desire to matter, to be noticed, to become a historic figure,? he says. ?It?s the most powerful motivation we have.? Kruglanski calls it the ?quest for personal significance.? This craving can be keenest among those who feel lonely and tread upon. ?When people feel a loss of significance ? when they are humiliated ? that propels them to join a radical group,? says Jocelyn B?langer, a psychology professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal who collaborates with Kruglanski. ?A group gives them a feeling of significance. It fulfills a psychological need.? The researchers see the Paris attacks increasing radicalization in two potential ways. First, the killings project power and prestige, burnishing the Islamic State?s image and attracting those who want to feel potent themselves. Second, the attacks will escalate tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims. They have already led to some anti-Muslim activity and will probably provoke more. Not only will these events make Muslims in the West feel marginalized, but they will also provide extremist propagandists with examples of Western oppression. ?For people who are already sympathetic to ISIS, who already feel humiliated and discriminated against ? this could be the straw that breaks the camel?s back,? Kruglanski says. In the coming months, Western countries will be forced to address the Islamic State's military presence in the Middle East. But the Paris attacks will also pose a problem at home, challenging governments to maintain a sense of community after a tragedy engineered to sow discord. ?As a society if we are to move forward, we will have to stay united,? B?langer says. ?If we become more self-centered, if we exclude and alienate minorities, we play right into their hands.?
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You assume too much. Why are you so hateful? Why are you so blind? Why are you afraid of a different opinion? What's illogical? Did you read the Salon piece? Quote me where it says, he blamed the victims in Paris? Why are you lying an making up stuff? "Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent." Frantz Fanon Quote: TheBigGuy wrote: Quoting an off the wall, blame the victim opinion is part of the Salon left wing regressive agenda....... it is good to know the trolls,bigots and right wing reactionaries you despise are not the ones committing the atrocities... try focusing on who is actually COMMITTING these atrocities, you ignorant DB and then give a logical response.... why do you jerks come to this oppressive countryif you are not happy? Stay in your own country and spew your hatred. quote] Asif wrote: While most of the trolls, bigots and right wing reactionaries won't bother.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/16/mid ... o/index.html?eref=edition Hero dad sacrificed himself to save hundreds by tackling Beirut suicide bomber The family of a man hailed as a hero for tackling a suspected ISIS suicide bomber during an attack in Beirut on Thursday, at the cost of his own life, say they feel immense pride at his actions. "I am alive, and happy, and proud of my husband who held our family name up high and honored us," Bassima Termos, the widow of Adel Termos, told CNN Monday. "The kids and I are all doing fine. He made us proud, put our heads up high, what more do I need? He gave me dignity, pride, and respect." Adel Termos, a 32-year-old car mechanic and father of two, has been hailed for his heroism on social media, after he reportedly threw himself at the second suicide bomber approaching a mosque in the Bourj al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut, minutes after the first bomber struck. Forty-three people were killed and 239 injured in the attacks, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency. Tributes on social media speculated that Termos had saved many lives through his sacrifice, by preventing the bomber from entering the crowded mosque. "All our neighbors and the people of our town are so proud of him," Bassima Termos told CNN. "The close ones and the friends, and the strangers ... everyone is proud." Adel's father, Akram Termos, told CNN that the explosion that killed his son occurred about 100 meters (330 feet) from his apartment. His son had stopped by the mosque at about 5 p.m. for prayers on his way home from work, when the first bomber struck near the mosque. Eyewitnesses to the attack, who had also been at the mosque, had described to him how events unfolded, he said. "He and others at the mosque went to check out what was happening when Adel noticed a man running down the hill... screaming 'Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar'," he said. "Adel ran toward him, pushing him and pinning him down on the ground, at that instant, the man (detonated) the bomb and the second explosion happened." He said the attack was a "disaster and a tragedy, but at the same time, Adel has made us proud, as everyone now calls him a hero and he has completed his religious duty as a martyr in the heavens." Contrary to early reports, neither of Adel's children had been killed in the blast, he said. Adel Termos is survived by his wife Bassima and two children, 6-year-old daughter Malak and 2-year-old son Akram. In a purported ISIS statement circulated on social media, the terror group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which struck the Lebanese capital a day before the attacks in Paris. CNN hasn't confirmed the authenticity of the statement. A would-be suicide bomber who survived the attack told investigators he was an ISIS recruit, but investigators are still working to verify the surviving suspect's claim, a Lebanese security source told CNN. CNN's Euan McKirdy, Alma Al Turkmani, Greg Botelho, Paul Cruickshank and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.
Posted on: 2015/11/17 0:23
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Re: In case you missed the news.. major cooridinated Islamic terror attack in Paris
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Because i posted an article from Salon.Com? I am a radical? You are assuming alot of things without even knowing me.
What would have you done to me if I had quoted Dr. Seuss...i shudder at the thought. Quote:
Posted on: 2015/11/16 0:10
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