OTOH, if yours was a westminster-style parliamentary democracy, people might actually pay attention to the election of their house/senate representatives, rather than just focusing on the presidency.

Don’t compare Trump to a paragon of trash-monsterism like Oscar. It’s called a garbage CAN, not a garbage CANNOT

Fear mongering is super effective and super dangerous.

The main effect Trump has is to make all these people look sane by comparison.

Like a trash monster that feeds on sewage, it only makes him stronger.

By “trolls” you mean people who ask questions instead of blindly jumping into the faux outrage of the day?

Qatar is a hellish shithole where human trafficking and slavery are currently practiced.

Source: FBI Hate Crime Statistics, compiled from 2001-2011. Admittedly, 2014 saw only about four times as many hate crimes committed against Jews as against Muslims.

He’s obviously milking this for everything it’s worth. The question is how much that hurts his credibility. Everything I’ve learned about his father says he’s the kind of guy who would throw himself down a flight of stairs and sue you for his injuries. I don’t trust anything he says about this.

I disagree with you, ergo I am a racist. Got it.

I have to admit I soured on the family after they met with Omar al-Bashir and then moved to Qatar.

actually if you go to the southern poverty law center and look at their statistics for hate crimes, hate crimes against Jews are the number one religious hate crime in America, much higher than Hate crimes against Muslims. That doesn’t mean that hate crimes against Muslims are good, far from it, there shouldn’t be any…

He’s not intelligent for what he did. There are plenty of intelligent kids out there and they deserve congratulations for their efforts. What Ahmed “created” was not intelligent. Though if pulling off a media scam that would allow one to meet the president and to gain the sympathies of Facebook and twitter and…

No, we would blame him for making the choice to adopt that ideology.

There are almost nine times as many hate crimes committed against Jews in the United States as against Muslims. Twice as many per capita. But I bet you wouldn’t have anything nice to say if 5 million of them moved to Israel and needed places to live.

Intelligent how? For dismantling a store bought clock and putting it in a pencil case?

Further research into this family shows they've been pulling this crap on purpose hoping this would happen. They were going to leave regardless, they just wanted the huge payday.

Asking for 15 million dollars is also quite a lot, even if you were discriminated against. That’s probably approaching the yearly budget of the school he went to, depending on where he was.

agreed, it is also pretty odd that we are going to investigate whether this kid’s civil rights were being violated when he moved to a place that doesn’ believe in civil rights for women and gays.

Just got to say, though, that making this a big ado over civil rights - which it is - in America, and then moving to a place like Qatar (after being photographed with war criminal Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir) probably isn’t the best look. I’d have at least have passed on the latter. I get that his parents are…