This is some damn fine insanity. Good job.

The jipijapa palm is doing quite well, I think we did a good job building it.

You’re awfully mad at me about this even though I have no control over how police departments and the media interact.

Remove the sarcasm tag and you are indeed describing the “thinking” of the sort of psycho rage-turd who would kill a young woman like this.

But how have they even come up with road rage?

Other articles make it sound like the girls reported an “altercation” of some kind with the guy, but I don’t know whether any details have been released about how it started or what he said to them—or when he started throwing beer bottles, for that matter. The motherfucker sounds like an absolute psycho....

I know why people say no comment.

If you don’t know anything then you don’t say anything. Is that an unreasonable standard?

They didn’t say “definitely no racial animus here.” Come on, man. 

But it is normal.

While various reports have said anywhere from one to three men killed this girl, her friends reportedly said it was just one man.

Because it’s one of the first questions people have for them in a case like this.

There’s no reason to think there was a second one according to the victim’s friends’ account. Various news stories have said anywhere from one to three, but the girl’s actual friends evidently said it was one man.

The actual Burmese people aren’t primarily the ones victimizing the Rohingya. The members of the military junta directly installed by western powers in the wake of World War II are.

This—at the moment, anyway—looks like a gray area kind of thing where I won’t quibble whether people label it terrorism or a hate crime. The two have generally been considered “close cousins”*, but the distinction between the two becomes very blurry in some cases, and I’d say we’re seeing more examples of such cases…

And not just him, but all his people and his ideology. Completely new group remade it, who condemned his preaching and the fact that it didn’t even function as a mosque:

Another interesting tidbit:

It’s cool that you found a way to blame the West for the unbelievable depravity being visited upon the Rohingya. I’m sure the West is also somehow to blame for how China treats Uighurs, the treatment of Muslims in parts of India, etc. Next time I see, for example, a photo of the corpses of a Rohingya mother and her…