"Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail

An anonymous reader writes "A Methusen, Mass. high schooler, who goes by the rapper name 'Cammy Dee' has been arrested after posting lyrics that police felt were 'communicating terrorist threats.' This wouldn't be the first time rap lyrics were investigated, but if formally charged for 'communicating terrorist threats' this would a set a chilling low bar for terrorist investigations."

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News For Nerds?

[rsmith-mac]

This had better be News For Nerds, because it sure isn't Stuff That Matters. If you don't have a good technical article to post, then don't post anything at all. These flamebait stories are getting old.

Re:Hmm.

[SplashMyBandit]

Thanks for your reply. When was there a large neonazi attack? When was there an actual Klan attack? Sure, these were indeed big problems in the past, but *today* the incidence is negligible as far as I can see. So perhaps you'll point me to the organized wave of Klan attacks (since the Klan was formed by Democratic party members, which most Democrats don't know, you would expect the Democratic party holding the Senate and White House would lead to an uptake in attacks if the threats you mention were anything other than strawmen, yeah?)

In other words, you really don't want to have a debate over whether the Koran is more anti-freedom then your Holy Book.

My Holy Book is "Principia Mathematica" and subsequent works. So let's not go up the soft ad-hominem route shall we?

I think in your defense of Islam you seem to think that the Abrahamic religions are all equally bad. As an atheist I think they are all bullshit from an enlightened scientific perspective. However there are two massive flaws in your attempt at making them morally equivalent:

• While Judaism and Christianity are barbaric in origin they are seen as mad-written by influence by God. They are susceptible to change and this is what has happened due to various reformations over the centuries. Hence it is a very long time since the Inquisition and stoning of adulterers and such. In short, these religions have moved on to be physically tolerant and fairly verbally tolerant too. These faiths also follow the law, "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord" (meaning, Christians and Jews are not to extract retribution from those outside their faith). Judaism and Christianity are "personal faiths" that do not mandate a form of government, hence Church and State are separated.
• Islam is *still* barbaric (eg. see the 20811 fatal Islamic attacks around the globe since 2001-09-11). The majority of Muslims (around 77% in a survey published recently) still want to impose the barbaric Sharia in the 21st Century. Muslims are commanded to exact retribution on Muslims and non-Muslims that don't follow Sharia. The Qur'an is claimed (falsely) to be the direct and unalterable word of Allah (clearly false since there are numerous versions, eg the Sa'ana Qur'an found in 1972) and attempting to change or challenge Islam is 'apostasy' and punishable by death (to be enacted by Muslims, *especially* family members). Islam is actually a *political idelogy* that mandates progression toward a particular form of Government (theocracy) with some superstitious stuff sprinkled on top - hence the any separation between Mosque and State is considered a temporary 'Milestone' stage on the way to theocracy.

I hope you can now see the fundamental difference between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. One has a few barbaric commandments that are no longer listened to and claims no mandate over non-believers. Whereas Islam is a *political ideology* that claims political authority over Muslims and non-Muslims alike, has a great deal of violent and hateful beliefs as part of its mainstream *core* doctrine, and it actively carried out today (and historically has been directly responsible for at least 270 million deaths through personal and mass jihad).

Another interesting thing to note is that while Islam claims to be an Abrahamic faith, the reality is actually different. The attributes given to Allah (which is a title, not a personal name) in the Qur'an are *different* to the attributes given to YHWH/Jehovah by the Torah/Bible. For example, YHWH can never lie, yet the Qur'an states that Allah is the "Greatest of Deceivers". It is simply not possible for (the fictional) YHWH to be the same as the (equally fictional) Allah - despite what Islam claims. For a full analysis please see the following link:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/god.htm

While drawing "moral equivalence" is a common tactic of apologists of Islam, the facts show that it is a fallacy - which I hope you can now see with the references and description I've given.