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  • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 2006 11:58 PM

Call Me Violent? I'll Blow You Up!

Submitted by Sean

Edited by Sean

Tags: islam, cartoon, bomb plot, germany

Youssef Mohammed el Hajdib, a recent immigrant to Germany, saw this hateful cartoon in the paper:


The Australian reports that Mr. el Hajdib...

interpreted (the cartoons) as an insult to Islam by the western world,'' Joerg Ziercke, the director of Germany's federal police, told Focus magazine in an interview to be published on Monday.


Offended by the insulting cartoons hatefully equating Islam with violence, Mr, el Hajdib decided to plant a bomb on a German train.

El Hajdib and Hamad are suspected of having hidden bombs in suitcases on two regional trains in Germany. In all five men have been arrested as part of the investigation, three in Lebanon and two in Germany.

The bombs did not explode because of faulty timed detonators. But the two men were serious about their plot, Mr Ziercke said, and had studied the German rail timetables for weeks, possibly even since the start of the row over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed last year.



Had mr. el Hajdib succeeded, I'm sure the paper would have realized how wrong it had been to equate Islam and Violence.

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Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

SEP 05, 2006 10:43 AM

DancehallDreamer said:

PRockGirlScout said:

Subrosa said:

FreakPirate said:
Buttfuck, USA the land of lollipops and rainbows



Stop talking about my hometown like that.



Haha!



It's funny until you cross the railroad tracks and see all the oompaloompa crack whores out trolling for chocolate bars to feed their habit. No one likes to look at the seedy side of Buttfuck, but I think it really needs to be brought into the light of day.


No, the Castro's actually quite nice, I assure you.

Fatality

Fatality

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

SEP 05, 2006 10:50 AM

DancehallDreamer said:


It's funny until you cross the railroad tracks and see all the oompaloompa crack whores out trolling for chocolate bars to feed their habit. No one likes to look at the seedy side of Buttfuck, but I think it really needs to be brought into the light of day.



I actually think it's one of the most beautiful parts of the world

DhD_No_Pants

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX
May 2006

SEP 05, 2006 11:07 AM

Fatality said:

DancehallDreamer said:


It's funny until you cross the railroad tracks and see all the oompaloompa crack whores out trolling for chocolate bars to feed their habit. No one likes to look at the seedy side of Buttfuck, but I think it really needs to be brought into the light of day.



I actually think it's one of the most beautiful parts of the world



I'm just trying to raise some awareness. The government is doing nothing about it. Because we all know that:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)



Westley

Westley

Vatican City
April 2004

SEP 05, 2006 01:24 PM

edith said:

why do you people on here need to be so snarky? it's really, really, lame.



This is the funniest comment you have ever bothered to drool on to your keyboard. You really lack any self awareness.

edith

edith

France
April 2006

SEP 05, 2006 01:44 PM

Westley said:

edith said:

why do you people on here need to be so snarky? it's really, really, lame.



This is the funniest comment you have ever bothered to drool on to your keyboard. You really lack any self awareness.



whatever.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

SEP 05, 2006 02:09 PM

Subrosa said:

DancehallDreamer said:

PRockGirlScout said:

Subrosa said:

FreakPirate said:
Buttfuck, USA the land of lollipops and rainbows



Stop talking about my hometown like that.



Haha!



It's funny until you cross the railroad tracks and see all the oompaloompa crack whores out trolling for chocolate bars to feed their habit. No one likes to look at the seedy side of Buttfuck, but I think it really needs to be brought into the light of day.


No, the Castro's actually quite nice, I assure you.



i think she was talking about the tenderloin. biggrin i should visit buttfuck this weekend, unless the whole bridge deal is still generating traffic.

Westley

Westley

Vatican City
April 2004

SEP 05, 2006 02:13 PM

edith said:

Westley said:

edith said:

why do you people on here need to be so snarky? it's really, really, lame.



This is the funniest comment you have ever bothered to drool on to your keyboard. You really lack any self awareness.



whatever.



One can only imagine how lacking your response might have been before you became a world travelling princess on the Intelligentsia's payroll. Maybe just a "wh".

edith

edith

France
April 2006

SEP 06, 2006 09:52 AM

Westley said:

edith said:

Westley said:

edith said:

why do you people on here need to be so snarky? it's really, really, lame.



This is the funniest comment you have ever bothered to drool on to your keyboard. You really lack any self awareness.



whatever.



One can only imagine how lacking your response might have been before you became a world travelling princess on the Intelligentsia's payroll. Maybe just a "wh".




WHATEV.

reprobate

reprobate

New Orleans, LA
December 2002

SEP 06, 2006 12:04 PM

edith said:

FreakPirate said:

edith said:

well, i did. but that doesn't mean anything. i still think anyone can work their way up to the top in america.



So how do YOU explain the large number of people living below the poverty line? Homelessness?



i think there are many, many different causes. the first one of course is that life isn't fair. other reasons are: mental illness, drug abuse, medical bills, low pay jobs, crappy schools, single parents, etc etc etc.

so you are born and life isn't fair, but it is possible to work your way up or down or whatever in the US. you really, honestly don't believe this?

don't you know any immigrant families who came to america, worked their asses off and produced doctors and lawyers? how is this possible if being poor allows you no chance in life? a friend of mine is a lawyer and her parents came from mexico and worked as a janitor and a maid their entire lives. the reason they came from mexico was to give their kids that chance.



The problem here is that you're a privileged American expatriate who only knows one "success story". People like you don't deign to meet the people trapped in grinding, intransigent poverty. Guess what? For every lawyer whose parents were janitors there are a hundred who are ...

wait for it...

janitors.

Yeah, we don't have a caste system that marks people from birth, but we sure as fuck have a system that heavily favors those who already have, even among immigrants. Guess what? If you can actually get to America with the proper visas and open a convenience store, you already have more advantages than 98 out of 100 native born poor. Its not magic, its education and opportunity. Its having a mother, who if she's not a semi-literate product of our decimated public school system herself, actually has the time to help you with your homework instead of working two jobs. Its about parents who are sophisticated enough to know about summer enrichment programs and can navigate the scholarship process. Its about being given the tools to compete academically with rich white kids who have tutors and laptops and Princeton Review and manufactured "learning disabilities".

Most importantly though its about not funneling wealth upward under the excuse that "life's not fair" or "the poor can't be taught better nutrition, they won't listen" or "they're just not working hard enough". That shit doesn't fly when you're simultaneously gutting public housing while giving people mortgage interest tax deductions for McMansions, or you tax passive income (which requires wealth) at half the rate of people who actually work for it but don't raise the limit for subsidized student loans for a decade and a half, or eliminate the estate tax, but continue to fund education on local property taxes so the wealthy can keep their bucks at home while taxing all the resources of the cities and giving nothing in return.

Thats what the country you fled is doing.

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