Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: SadistDave Incidentally, I did some checking today, and it turns out that this particular Muslim woman, Saba Ahmed, happens to be a self described family friend of a horses ass named Mohamed Mohamud. Mohamed Mohamud tried to blow up a car bomb in Portland Oregon in 2010. According to the FBI, Mohamud �was looking for a �huge mass that will be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.�� The author of the article is right to ask why anyone should believe that a self-described "peaceful Muslim" like Saba Ahmed is a close family friend of a convicted jihadist. Now, I know... it's all hearsay that she knows this man, now isn't it. After all, that article doesn't actually prove any connection between Saba Ahmed and Mohamed Mohamud. So, I did a little more digging. Here's a picture of her leaving the courthouse during his trial. According to this article, she made public statements that she had intimate knowledge of the bombing attempt that had not yet been made public, which means she was pretty fucking close to Mohamud. She also had herself a hissy fit, claiming that the government was responsible for a mosque that was destroyed by arson after Mohamuds arrest. So, did the panel know that she was a friend of a terrorist and that's why they treated her as they did? Why didn't they just say so at the beginning, if they already knew? If they didn't know this and believed that she was a peaceful Muslim, then the angry treatment would still be unwarranted (unless there are those in this country who seek to drive moderate Muslims into the arms of the extremists). Of course, if you're looking for weak links on the American side and "ridiculous Muslim apologists," then I think you'll find far more of that on the right-wing than on the left-wing. Remember this guy? Look who he's kissing: Or how about the Reagan campaign conspiring with the Iranians, first to help Reagan get elected in 1980, and then again in the Iran-Contra deal? That hurt our position far worse than anything else, and the fact that many right-wingers still worship Reagan as a god demonstrates to the Muslims just how clueless most Americans truly are. They see that as weakness, and that's why they attack us. They don't see us as "weak" physically or emotionally, but as a country, we're demonstrably weak mentally - easily confused, misled, and confounded, as Reagan and Bush obviously were. If Muslims are such a dangerous threat, you wouldn't know it when looking at the policies favored by the right wing business community. (They're also the same ones who said that communism was a threat, yet they've been kissing up to Communist China for decades now.) Either they (Communists and Muslims) were never a threat at all, or they are/were a threat, yet the Republicans gave in to them anyway. That's pretty darn weak and does far more damage to America's position than a million "ridiculous Muslim apologists." I'm not saying that Democrats are blameless, but your analysis here seems too one-sided, as did this panel. In short, the mismanagement of America's foreign policy and our geopolitical position in the world is a shared malady from both parties and their supporters. An honest, non-partisan look at our recent history and policies supported by both sides would show this to be true.
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