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| Kurdish gangs emerge in Nashville |
| 2007-08-01 |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #10 And what would Hank Williams say about all this? |
| Posted by: borgboy2001 2007-08-01 23:16 |
| #9 Take your foot off the record pedal. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-08-01 20:22 |
| #8 You're fucking up our narrative xblanke. |
| Posted by: E Wood 2007-08-01 19:40 |
| #7 My brother lives in Nashville and has some dealings with members of the Kurdish community there (soccer league, I believe), and he says theres no more grateful-to-be-in-America immigrant community to be found. As in any community you're going to have bad apples - especially among young males. And gang culture has a twisted self-perpetuating dynamic of its own: boys are pressured to join and have to do bad stuff to get in, at which point they're tainted if they stay and marked for retribution if they leave. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-08-01 15:34 |
| #6 "Kurdish gangs emerge in Nashville" I wonder if they formed any bluegrass bands yet. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2007-08-01 10:02 |
| #5 Yes, bigjim, but IT'S AN EPIDEMIC according to the MSM. Much like yesterday's "news" that gangs are rampant in the military, when the numbers just don't show a big trend. Maybe these guys were p!ssed off at the lack of a country music career. Personally, I'm a lot more worried about illegal immigrants and the coming of gangs in Hispanic areas than the Kurds. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-08-01 09:20 |
| #4 20-30 out of 10,000 is not what I'd call an alarming percentage. Plus it sounds like they have the majority of the Kurdish community on their backs. They'll never quash out all the rats, but they sound like they don't want the bad press. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-08-01 08:24 |
| #3 Historically most ethnic gangs have not come from the immigrants themselves, but from their children (occassionally) or grandchildren (more common), and as such they are citizens and cannot be sent 'home'. This pattern may be changing as the shear number of immigrants and porosity of borders increases. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-08-01 07:38 |
| #2 Time to send them home. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-08-01 06:01 |
| #1 Does anyone know if there is a Wahabi mosque in the area? |
| Posted by: Throger Thains8048 2007-08-01 00:24 |