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What's Your Terrorism Quotient?
unassimilatible writes "From the Department of Pre-Crime, the AP reports: before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists - sparking some investigations and arrests. The 'high terrorism factor' scoring system also became a key selling point for the involvement of the database company, Seisint Inc., in the Matrix project. According to Seisint's presentation, dated January 2003 and marked confidential, the 120,000 names with the highest scores were given to the INS, FBI, Secret Service and Florida state police. Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."
When my brother asked him he said that he had been like that, then he called his dad his 2nd month in the states. His dad asked him how he was liking America. He explained his difficulties in keeping clean from pork "contamination." His dad laughed and told him
"son, you need to try ham and bacon. Sometimes sin is good. The profit didn't know what the hell he was missing"
As someone raised muslim, with a muslim name ( and one that happens to correspond to that of an at-large chechen terrorist ) I'll wager it's time to get out of this country.
Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently). So you'll have to change your name to a "non-Muslim" one, just to be safe. And since you'll have to do that anyway, you might as well do it in the States and just stay here, saving yourself the effort.
Pick a simple one, like John Quincy Smith. Or one based on your personal heroes, whoever they may be.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I believe his logic can best be explained as:
a)"When you poked the wasp nest you got stung"
b)"Poking the bee nest just to get back at the wasps will only make things worse"
According to the terrorist's interpretation of islamic law it is their duty to attack the US and all other non islamic states. They believe they are instructed to convert or kill all non islamic people. Those are your choices, join islam or die. This is not an rare interpretation of islamic law.
The US is considered an evil nation because it aids other nations (esp. israel) to resist being "converted by the sword". The surrounding arab nations would probably happily drive the jews into the sea.
The US is percieved to be a leader among the corupt (meaning non-islamic) western nations. Also, american media and culture are considered obcene by islamic standards.
The very fact that anyone non-islamic lives is an evil thing to these terrorists. They belive it is their religios duty to opress and kill you, with paridise guaranteed to them if they die for their cuase.
Not all muslims believe thus, but the groups who are driving planes into buildings do. The "wasps" where out to get you anyway.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." -Plato
Who the fuck do you think created the atmosphere of fear? It was the people who crashed the planes, you fucking moron! Should the media have glossed over the single most important event in American history in years?