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2016-06-17 Home Front: WoT

In Orlando killer's hometown, Muslims endure slurs, insults

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Posted by Fred 2016-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Drop a few dimes, guys. You'll be accused of islamophobia--it's a reflex--but that's not the end of the world.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-06-17 07:11|| 2016-06-17 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't worry. The president has your back.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-06-17 09:16|| 2016-06-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Funny how stories of islamaphobia always turn on the sort of thing that this will create more terrorists. Never that they might reform their ways, try to better prevent terrorists in their midst, join the military in droves to prove their love of their new country (the way most other immigrant groups in America work).

But then Islam isn't a race like other immigrants its an ideal just as America isn't a ethnic based nation state like other countries, it's an ideal. Those two sets of ideals seem incompatible.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-17 09:49|| 2016-06-17 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 "Victim Playing" is one of their rules. Kinda like a new 13th rule in the rules for radicals.

Defined as the fabrication of victimhood to justify abuse of others and to manipulate others, attention seeking. Play this card immediately and as often as necessary.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-06-17 10:31|| 2016-06-17 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 "Defined as the fabrication of victimhood to justify abuse of others and to manipulate others, attention seeking. Play this card immediately and as often as necessary."

Thomas Sowell once commented, I think in one of his "Random Thoughts" columns, that "there is no scam more lucrative than convincing parasites that they are victims."

Word.

Posted by Dave D. 2016-06-17 11:15|| 2016-06-17 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Most scam artists get by by telling their victims lies that are parallel (for lack of a better word) to the sorts of things they want to hear.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-06-17 11:19|| 2016-06-17 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 To me, the most amazing thing about it is that it still works on some people.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-17 11:46|| 2016-06-17 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 My heart bleeds peanut butter

Posted by Rex Mundi 2016-06-17 11:57|| 2016-06-17 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Muslims fear backlash from next attack by Muslims radicalized by islamophobia

"Oh, Muslims, we're really so over ya --
Your crazy controlling, your '-phobia.'
We knew when we dumped ya
We might have to Trump ya...
Enjoy your Islamic utopia!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-06-17 13:37|| 2016-06-17 13:37|| Front Page Top

#10 It is time to consider that being phobic about islam isn't a bad idea. Essentially, we are expected to somehow discern the passive adherent from those that through taqqiya and kitman appear peaceful. That somehow, we need precise diagnostic tools that work in a screening interview so that we can admit the one and not the other, not mentioning those who blossom into jihadi's here due to the bile in their Mosques or online. Gee, perhaps a little bias against a potential threat seems reasonable. As for that "diversity makes us stronger" crap, utter pablum for those who haven't had a critical thinking decision required of them since deciding which gender they are.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-06-17 14:32|| 2016-06-17 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 JihadWatch article from last October that showed up on Drudge Report today:

51% of U.S. Muslims want Sharia; 60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.

How many of the Muslims of Ft. Pierce -- not including the killer's father, who made his opinions clear in his YouTube Dari broadcasts for his Afghan audience, quite unlike the things he said after events in English -- would fall into that 51%?

Posted by trailing wife 2016-06-17 15:06|| 2016-06-17 15:06|| Front Page Top

#12 The number of Muslims wanting Islam is all about the strong horse theory exposed by Bin Laden. We've been the weak horse for 8 years and they smell the blood in the water.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-06-17 15:54|| 2016-06-17 15:54|| Front Page Top

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