tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post3656836929898035059..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: You can't be too careful, or too paranoidUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-75820923478697426872015-09-17T10:26:32.272-05:002015-09-17T10:26:32.272-05:00NPR reported this morning that Ahmed is changing s...NPR reported this morning that Ahmed is changing schools.<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/2015/09/17/441063191/texas-teen-to-transfer-schools-after-arrest-over-homemade-clock<br /><br />Hey, the kid's not the idiot here.<br />Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-74626025935471442162015-09-17T10:16:54.134-05:002015-09-17T10:16:54.134-05:00Here's the link to the article in a usable for...Here's the link to the article in a usable form:<br /><br />http://goo.gl/wYBqOntrexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-16910516151218861592015-09-17T10:15:17.689-05:002015-09-17T10:15:17.689-05:00I mistakenly thought this issue was put to bed whe...I mistakenly thought this issue was put to bed when the police released the boy without charges. However I just learned this morning that the school suspended him for three days anyway! Ostensibly for the offense of embarrassing them on the national stage, because every other excuse has been rebutted. What an utter lack of shame or decency...or self-awareness. <br /><br />Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised given that the school system suffered an Islamic panic in response to a kooky chain email about four years ago and undertook a paid investigation of its own curriculum to make sure it wasn't pro-Islamic....<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2015/09/16/ahmed_mohamed_s_school_it_was_afraid_of_islam_well_before_it_thought_a_clock.html<br /><br />trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-34936765949564683492015-09-16T13:41:48.395-05:002015-09-16T13:41:48.395-05:00Yeah, sounds like Irving.Yeah, sounds like Irving.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-24166886710199386202015-09-16T13:35:20.378-05:002015-09-16T13:35:20.378-05:00Some context on Muslim sentiment in the city in wh...Some context on Muslim sentiment in the city in which he was arrested:<br /><br /><i>The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero to America’s anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had created a special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne posted a Facebook rant in which she vowed to “fight with every fiber of my being” the nonexistent “sharia court.” One anti-Muslim website gushed that Irving “is being called ‘ground zero’ in the battle to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system” and hailed her as “the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood.”<br /><br />That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State Legislature banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was targeted at least in part at these “sharia courts.” The Irving City Council went out of its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was enacted in June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill — William “Bill” Mahone, who “denounced the vote and urged Irving to ’embrace the Muslims’” — then lost his seat in the city election “by a wide margin.” I’ve spoken to Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community there, which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.</i> trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.com