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Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
[DAWN] Thousands of people were expected to attend a prayer service for three Moslems bumped off in North Carolina, as police investigated whether religious hatred played any role in the shooting which authorities said was sparked by a dispute over parking spaces.

The alleged shooter, Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, describes himself as a "gun toting" atheist. Neighbours say he always seemed angry and frequently confronted his neighbors, sometimes while wearing a handgun on his hip.

His ex-wife said he was obsessed with the shooting-rampage movie "Falling Down," and showed "no compassion at all" for other people. The killings are fuelling outrage among people who blame anti-Moslem rhetoric for hate crimes.

A Moslem advocacy organization pressed authorities to investigate possible religious bias. Many posted social media updates with the hashtags (hash)MoslemLivesMatter and (hash)CallItTerrorism.

About 2,000 people attended a candlelight vigil for the victims in the heart of UNC's campus on Wednesday evening. "We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated, and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," Chapel Hill police Chief Chris Blue said in an email.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Swearing RevengeTM no doubt.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  How man y of those coming to that funeral (BTW thye were killed by a lefy atheist) gave a rat's .. when they head oabout thousands of Christians crucified by the IS or about that French nine year old Jewish girl catched from her hair by a Muslim and murdered in cold blod all while her murder laughed with all his heart. How many of these morally superior bastards coming toi the funeral?
Posted by: JFM || 02/13/2015 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Gosh, those kids sure were popular.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/13/2015 5:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I still want to know what happens to the parking space.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#5  AlanC, there will probably be a mosque built on the site.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2015 10:25 Comments || Top||

#6  The killings are fuelling outrage among people who blame anti-Moslem rhetoric for hate crimes.

The leftist media sooo wants this to be a hate crime. The early coverage follows a simmilar shallow pattern. Reminiscent of how so many speculated that Rep. Giffords shooting had to be fueled by heated Tea Party rhetoric.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/13/2015 11:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Local story?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/13/2015 12:56 Comments || Top||

#8  swksvoIFF, if it had been three Christians killed, nobody outside of the local area would have even heard of this. Maybe, if it had been three blacks killed by a white man. But if they had been whites killed, it never would have gone beyond the local news.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/13/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, if it no use to denounce "Christian Extremism", at least you can denounce guns.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Are the Westboro people still active?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/13/2015 16:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Rambler, I tried to find the story about the Big Time Reporter, when asked about a similar story which was in the news, but the races were reversed, quipped that they do not cover local stories.

The narrative declared they needed a dead muslim via white for their anti American Sniper and Crusades! Y'all story and found this, looked at the mug shot, and Zimmermaned. That is, on the surface this guy fit the casting, looked the part. Come to find out he is what many progs point to as an example. Athiesm is progressive evolution, athiesm negates Crusades! Y'all, gets his news from Huffpoo.

All the stick has is guns and inhierant white male aggression, and looking at my The Progressives' Sorting flow chart, should have been negated by the Athiesm.

*I'm not jabbing at you Athiests, in a way I get a kick out of what level hobgoblin the media can make, and religion most definately plays a roll in that.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/13/2015 16:47 Comments || Top||

#12  I tried to find the story about the Big Time Reporter, when asked about a similar story which was in the news, but the races were reversed, quipped that they do not cover local stories.

Kermit Gosnell
Posted by: Pappy || 02/13/2015 20:09 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Daughter of Mongolia Justice Minister drowned in the Bosphorus with boyfriend
[Hurriyet Daily News] A young couple from Mongolia who were in Istanbul to spend Valentine's Day has drowned in the Bosphorus. According to eyewitnesses, the young man fell into the Bosphorus and his girlfriend then jumped into the water to save him. The couple's bodies were later found by officials on Feb. 11

Sereter Bat-Erdene, a student in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
and his girlfriend Sarengerel Dorilgjav arrived in Istanbul on Feb. 7 and checked into a five-star hotel in Beşiktaş.

Reports suggest that Bat-Erdene was walking on the hotel's outer wall when he lost his balance and fell into the water. Jav immediately jumped into the water to save him.

Hotel employees who witnessed the incident rushed to the scene, but the young couple had already drowned. Following search and rescue activities, officials found the couple's bodies.

Police have launched an investigation and said the incident was caught on the hotel's surveillance cameras.

Officials have also confirmed Bat-Erdene was the son of former wrestler and Mongolian deputy Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene, while Dorilgjav was the daughter of Mongolian Justice Minister Cambii Dorilgjav.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (sarc)
Mongolians have historically had difficulties with swimming. This relationship is poorly understood...
(sarc off)
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/13/2015 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  A young couple from Mongolia who were in Istanbul to spend Valentine's Day has drowned

Happy Valentine's dear.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2015 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  A Muslim metropolis just doesn't scream Valentine's Day to me.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2015 11:52 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Businessman freed, 6 kidnappers arrested in Herat
Curious picture of the perps. There are five, not six, unless the cop on the end is one of them. The chain's not actually around their necks, just draped over their shoulders. And the guy in the middle (wearing the hoodie) still has his AK hanging around his neck.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Afghan businessman and tribal elder who was kidnapped by a group of kidnappers in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province has been sprung and six suspects tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in connection to the abduction by Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

Aseeluddin Jami, acting governor of Herat Province says that the kidnappers had kidnapped Haji Mohammad Naseri from Deh Uzbak area of Anjil District while his way home three days ago and demanded his family to pay a ransom for his release.

He said when security agencies received information about the abduction they initiated an investigation in which they arrested two partners of the group who showed the location of the others.

He added that following the information, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) conducted operation and found the man in a house of Saharkhiz area of the same District yesterday.

He further added that six persons have been arrested in regards to the abduction who are now under further investigation.

Jami said that two other kidnappers have escaped but security forces are looking for them.

Haji Mohammad Naseri while going back to his family thanked Afghan National Security Forces for his safe release.

He asked severe punishment for the kidnappers.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Erdogan presents Cuba mosque project to Castro
[Hurriyet Daily News] Although Cuban officials have already agreed with Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
for the construction of a mosque in Havana, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has told Cuban President Compañero Raul Castro
...Fidel's little brother...
that Ankara would like to conduct its own project similar to Istanbul's iconic Ortaköy mosque in another Cuban province.
Are there many Muslims in Communist, and therefore officially atheist, Cuba, that there is need for two substantial mosques? Or is this a first step in claiming the island for the Umma?
Speaking to news hounds after meeting with Castro in Havana on Feb. 11, Erdogan said Cuban officials had already made an agreement with Saudi Arabia for the construction of a mosque in Havana.

"We want to build the mosque ourselves. We don't want a partner. If you find it appropriate, we would like to build it in Havana. But if you have promised a Havana mosque to other people, then we can build our Ortaköy Mosque in another Cuban province," Erdogan quoted himself as saying to Castro.

Mustafa Tutkun, the vice general manager of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), announced in November 2014 that Ankara had been negotiating with Cuban officials to build a mosque on two hectares of land in Havana's historic center. The Diyanet had proposed the construction of a mosque similar to the picturesque Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, which was built by Ottoman Armenian architects Garabet and Nigogayos Balyan in 1856.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Easy solution: Build it in Gitmo when they get it back.
(Works in so many ways.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/13/2015 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  For some reason IMO that Castro is not going to introduce a supremacist, totalitarian religion into his cozy little totalitarian island paradise. He doesn't want such a group undermining his government.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2015 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Castro is not going to introduce a competing supremacist, totalitarian religion

No charge for the fix.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/13/2015 20:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Ukraine Fighting Escalates Ahead of Truce
Combatants in the eastern Ukraine war ignored an impending cease-fire and escalated the fighting on Friday, as Russian-backed rebels sought to capture an important railway hub before the truce agreement takes effect.

Artillery shelling and gunfire reverberated in the area around the railway hub, Debaltseve, just south of this front-line town of Artemivsk, with reports that at least 18 people had been killed.

In a hospital courtyard here, ambulance crews hurriedly wheeled about bloodied, freshly wounded soldiers.

Medical helicopters buzzed in and out through the day. At a school, teachers herded children indoors when the booms of artillery started rattling windows.

The escalation erupted a day after the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany negotiated a new cease-fire agreement, the second in the nearly year-old war. The new pact left many issues unresolved, and many diplomats consider it fragile.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2015 12:33 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Chianti mayors say new property tax 'strikes soul' of land
The government's IMU property tax is putting at risk agricultural production in the rich Chianti countryside of Tuscany, two local mayors complained Tuesday.

"The IMU agricultural (tax) strikes at the soul of Chianti," say Giacomo Trentanovi and David Baroncelli, representing Barberino Val d'Elsa and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa.

They accused the national government of "harassing" property owners with the tax that they say could drive many out of business when it should instead being "giving a hand" during the ongoing economic crisis.
Tranzi bastards---is there nothing decent (Chianti is better than decent wine, IMO) they won't try to destroy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 02:52 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shut up and pay the rent taxes or we will find new owners.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2015 5:45 Comments || Top||

#2  First they came for the Chianti, and I said nothing.
Then they came for the Cannelloni, and I was too full to fight.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/13/2015 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL Ed.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/13/2015 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Rent seeking writ large. Drive out the small guys to the benefit of the big guy.

This is the MO of all Fascist, Socialist, Communist, Crony Capitalist (corporatist) and hybrid movements in the world. The more regulation the more centralized government control.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2015 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Roman senators running their latifundias two millennia ago knew how this worked...
Posted by: Steve White || 02/13/2015 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  They'll plant massive sticks & stucco housing tracts when the farmers go belly up. Won't taste as good as the wine but the houses will pay more in taxes. Seen it happen in Kaliphornia. Although the vineyards here are still profitable you don't see many orange or avacado groves anymore.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/13/2015 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Property taxes on the unimproved value of the land are de-facto capitalist.
Property taxes on the use the land are de facto NOT
capitalist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/13/2015 21:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Evil PMSC InGen Security Tasked With Protecting Jurassic World
[Feral Jundi] This is cool. Apparently in this summer’s blockbuster film called Jurassic World, there is a PMSC that they have promoted in trailers as the ones tasked with protecting the park. Below I have posted the main trailer for the film, which shows that the Jurassic park has been built and dinosaurs have been created through genetic engineering. In the second clip below, it shows the PMSC named InGen Security which is a business unit of Masarani Global. The Vic Hoskins character seems to be the CEO of InGen Security, played by the actor Vincent D’Onofrio.
Hollywood once again takes on Private Military Security Contractors (PMSC).
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2015 04:55 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cant wait for the IPO.
Posted by: Grunter || 02/13/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#2  That film looks ENORMOUSLY stupid!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/13/2015 21:18 Comments || Top||



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