This was helpful.

That’s wxactly what I was wondering. I sent a Reply asking for hard evidence of all of the same.

I didn’t know about and have never heard any of these things. Do you have direct evidence for all of it? Please provide links. I am genuinely interested in reading information about this if, in fact, it is not just some creative theory but is supported by a cataloging of observed behaviors. Please provide!

Haha, that was super funny.

And how should they pay? By literally taking money away from American children-citizens’ educations and sending it to a family in Qatar who no longer has any emotional or literal investment in the United States? He left. Call it even and move on.

Your opening line is COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG. What the hell are you talking about? Ahmed’s experience is NOT the experience of most Muslims in the U.S. If it were, that experience would be normative and rather unremarkable. It is precisely because this kind of treatment does NOT happen regularly that it is worthy…

Yours is a foolish an uninformed comment and has nothing to do with the matter under discussion.

Not just Lebanon. There were 147 people killed in an attack by Islamist gunmen on a university in Kenya. Why is there no Kenyan flag overlay on Facebook profiles? Why no Lebanese flag overlay? Is it because Westerners imagine that “things like that happen all the time in those parts of the world, so, life is less…

Seriously? No one is going to make this joke? I have to make this joke? Ok. I will make this joke.

Matt- this is ENTIRELY SOLD OUT (and has been since earlier this afternoon). Here’s what we need: a FULL & DETAILED write-up of the ENTIRE panel conversation; even better a COMPLETE video recording of the event. Both, or at least one, within the next several days. Can you, or someone— anyone— committ to providing…

Muhammad was not a warmongering savage. There are instance in his life in which he was present on the battlefield for the sake of: (1) Defending his own Qurayshi tribe against outside attackers; (2) Correcting a wrong by reestablishing human rights via military force. In each and every instance, engaging in armed…

Christianity had nothing to do with either World War (which, by the way, did not at all involve “the world”, merely a number of polities who held the greatest power in the world at the time and thus chose to engage in a power struggle which eventually turned violent and was given the official title of “war”.) The U.S.…

You could not be more incorrect. There is nothing literal about DAESH’s reading of the Qur’an. These are a collection of sociopathic persons who have congregated for the sole purpose of mitigating their internalized anger/depression/anxiety/murderousness/nearly non-existent self-esteem (i.e. depths of low…

Your article provided an incorrect link to Bangura’s interview. The correct link is here:

EXACTLY. Sorry to cut-n-paste my response, but, this was my take (in line with yours):

Bad posting strategy- paragraphs make it look longer than it is = no one reads it. I trust people with brains to insert their own relevant "breaks".

He's not talking about Iraqis who didn't fight or participate or own up to their responsibilities. He's talking only to those men in front of him. And, there is less than zero value in his speaking to them in such a way unless it is to bring them to the reality of their condition. He has nothing to gain by inventing…

As someone who has lived/served in that region of the world extensively: EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. that the US Soldier spoke to that Iraqi police platoon is TRUE. EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. It is NOT about why we should or shouldn't be there. We're there. It is NOT about whether or not our involvement helped or didn't help the…

KayGB, it's you who doesn't seem to understand the phrase, "beg the question". Although false-intellectual-grammar-nazis, like you, love to restrict all linguistics to only their dialectical usage, the fact remains that "beg the question" can mean, quite simply, "to invite an obvious question". Inherent in any post…