Don’t roll into to Washington Park with yo white ass and some aluminum foil thinkin your going to make friends for life. If you try it, you will leave with no aluminum foil and possibly a black eye.

Yeah, that’s what I’d think, but at just plain ol’ lakefront “white” or non-race-defined BBQs, with my 30-something friends, I typically just know the hosts. There will be like 4 work friends, 5 college friends, work friends of partner, college friends of partners, 6 family members—partners and friends of college…

I grew up playing spades but am now forced to play ‘euchre’ thanks to my wife’s midwest childhood.

Here’s an article on it from last night, you git

I think it’s because some people’s understanding of Islam comes entirely from 90’s action movies.

He drinks alcohol and eats pork - that’s just how secret Muslim he is.

I’m quickly becoming Team Nobody on this one.

Looks like they’re going to go for the, “lost innocence” route. To which I would respond, “If he asked you to go buy him a dime bag, and scoop some food from Sonic, would you have done it?

Did the coach also tell them to spear the QB after taking a knee in the victory formation?

Well if the coach told them to do it he needs to see jail time and the kids should still be punished. However, I would have totally used the “coach told me to” excuse if I was in the same position as these kids. So I am torn because I think that these kids are probably lying and are going to end up ruining 2 grown…

“Oh, another coin on the ground. That must be the 5th(!) time today. I must kneel down to see if it heads or tails.”

I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to just blame the coach to get out of trouble.

I think it had to be something exactly like that, because I’ve heard the term used by people who know less than nothing about Islam.

It’s weird: I’ve heard taqiyya mentioned several times in those circles. Even by my crazy conservative uncle who is minimally literate. I think somebody in the conservative blogosphere must have made a post about it or something like that, because it pops up way too often for a reasonably obscure piece of Shia…

Well, as a ref, he was no doubt holding a time-keeping device of some sort... a “clock” you might say. And in Texas, that means TERRORIST! These kids should get medals!

I think a lot of it is based on total ignorance of Islam and most of these morons don’t even know about Salat. You give people way too much credit. All they know is “they ain’t Christians, so they’re with Satan.”

I think a lot of it is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of taqiya, which is a practice in which Shia Muslims can be given permission to hide their faith for self-preservation. Given the historical imbalance between Sunni and Shia and the frequent persecution of Shia by the Sunni, it’s basically a way of…

I’m shocked that it’s not more than 54% of them!

No, actually they’re like 90-95 percent awesome! We have the best community of readers on the web. It’s why I love being here.