I’ve always been confused by the ethical line in DNA therapy. You use a therapy like this to remove the gene and cure the disease, you save lives and you’re a hero, but if you repair it in the germline then automatically you are a eugenicist and an unethical person and shunned.

I wouldn’t be that cynical; there are honest and good people in both parties who are interested in helping the public and want to serve on these committees to make a difference. It’s just there are some bad actors who want to exploit these situations for partisan gain. You make it sound like there’s no politicians who…

You ignored everything I said just to push your talking points. Yes, there’s an Arab judge, doesn’t disprove the fact that Israel’s policy is to prevent Arabs from serving in the cabinet despite being 20% of the population. Israel bans Arabs from being Air force pilots (the highest honor), and so on. There’s…

Yes, there was supposedly a lawsuit involving a man who bought a Winnebago, and claimed the dealer told him the cruise control was an autopilot. So he turned it on while driving and got up to use the kitchen in the back and the vehicle went off the road. He sued, and as a result the manuals and car supposedly have a…

Scarlett Johansen was a celebrity spokeswoman for Sodastream, and people protested that they built an Israeli factory in the middle of Palestinian West Bank land. When it was pointed out that she was also a celebrity spokeswoman for Oxfam and they didn’t like this activity, she decided to solve the problem by severing…

Already the right-wingers are trying to spin this as just an incident of “road rage,” as if that explains getting out of your car and chasing and beating a pedestrian at 3:30AM with a baseball bat.

Trump is the one nonstop bashing Muslims for the last 2 years, attacking other politicians in both parties for not agreeing with his view of Muslims as a threat to America. He is the one telling the country that an entire religion hates “us” (never mind the millions of American Muslims like this poor murdered girl)…

What evidence do you have this was a crime of passion? I’m sick of the apologists who try to spin every crime with a Muslim victim as something of different intent. The Chapel Hill shootings? Ignore his longstanding hatred of Arabs, he probably killed them all over parking. Killing a random stranger at 3:30AM? Ignore…

In 2015 a crazed gunman shot and killed 3 Muslims in Chapel Hill. The far right tried to paint it as a parking dispute, ignoring the other factors of the case. It was a national tragedy in the American Muslim community and something people still remember.

News of this spread fast over social media. American Muslims are on edge, first that mass-murder attempt in London and now this.

What victim-blaming garbage is this? A woman is DEAD and you decide you just want to bash her religion, and validate those who murdered her. Get out of here.

Let’s face it, this isn’t the same as some ordinary American being killed, visible minorites have been targeted a great deal more lately. The FBI is reporting record high statistics of hate crimes against Muslims.

For those non-Arabic-speakers, this translates to God have Mercy.

You probably think the Chapel Hill murders were “just over parking” too?

Glad to see you found the real root of the problem, not the guns but the religion. Are you going to bring up religion in every tangentially-related story now?

Nice assumptions there. I actually converted to the religion and wasn’t raised into it. So rather than take my advice and actually read the Quran, you’re going to take someone else’s word for it because they already match your foregone conclusions that all religions and not just yours were wrong.

I’m a white Muslim and I’m blown away by this ruling. Brown American Muslims are in jail right now for playing paintball (prosecutor said it was terrorist training), and this guy got OFF? Insane.

“not indicative of the professionalism that the vast majority of troopers display on a daily basis.”

You completely missed the point and didn’t read up on this. Yes, it’s a free country, people will drink whatever they want. However, any reduction in this by behavior changes and incentives will help; by encouraging parents to steer kids towards healthier drinks they are proven to have a later effect in life. Some…

Do people chug 600 cans of juice a year? And the health department advocated for water over sugary drinks with ads all over the city.