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Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Al-Qaeda's official online propaganda magazine, Inspire, contains a montage of violent images -- things like guns and blood -- next to an image of Bill Gates. The terrorist group is urging its followers to murder successful business folks, such as Gates, which is absolutely sickening. The terrorist group says that murdering high ranking people can damage the U.S. economy.
While I wish no harm upon Bill Gates - in spite of being vehemently anti-Microsoft myself - I don't see what Al-Qaeda could expect to accomplish by killing him. He stepped down how many years ago from the top of Microsoft? This seems about as logical as watching too many reruns of ER and then deciding to kill George Clooney to harm our health care system.
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Finally, the year of the Linux desktop
...to murder influential people to advance your socio-economic agenda. Right? What was that passage again?
Obviously I wish no ill will on anyone, but let's be honest, there are a number of "successful" people who's loss would improve the economy.
I guess Al Qaeda woke up to find their Windows 7 had been automatically upgraded to Windows 10 then? That's got to piss them off.
Can anyone remind me why it's bigoted to point out that most of the terrorism in the world is Islamic? Also, why is it bigoted to point out that the Qur'an calls for violence against nonbelievers but the New Testament says to love your enemies? Why is it acceptable to condemn the Westboro Baptist Church for their hatred but wrong to condemn Islam for their hatred and violence?
So... they want to kill off rich people in the hopes of *hurting* the economy?
Can I assume that people are already tweeting them suggestions on who to go after, so that all the money that is currently being sequestered by all these rich people will finally be released back into the economy?
I mean, if they're going after Gates, might as well try to take out Apple too...
Instead of blowing up buildings and killing people (which for some sick reason boosts the economy) they would all get jobs as investment bankers and mortgage brokers.
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Those terrorists sound like idiotic schoolchildren that have no idea how things work.
Talk about moronic... They couldn't make themselves appear dumber if they tried
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Top people in Western society are completely replaceable
Perhaps the one thing our economic policy ensures: the wealthy are almost criminally worthless and the most replaceable of the lot, to the point of being huge boat anchors.
Knock yourselves out Al Qaeda, purge us of our parasites, that'll show us!
They've been reading waaaaaaay too much Ayn Rand.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
The Al-Qaeda spokesman was able to issue the statement because he hadn't died from malaria.
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
"You seem to forget the crusades and christian missionary expansion"
No one is forgetting it, but that was how many hundreds of years ago? Was Christianity more militant and violent then, sure. The question is why is Islam violent NOW? Given the same amount of time to grow up, why have they refused?
Apparently mosquitoes are more dangerous and kill more people... and it's easier than stopping cancer.
soooo, getting children a better education in the language of their country of residence, the US of A, is somehow comparable to ISIL and AL-Qaeda's slaughters and rapes and maimings? boohoo, the native american alaskana can no longer practice bits of their culture like euthanizing the middle aged?
go back to tumblr, you SJW whiner
Given the same amount of time to grow up, why have they refused?
You'll have to ask that again in another 500 years, when it's been the same amount of time as Christianity now.
You know that several of the crusades were a response to Muslim invasion, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are many places in both Koran and Hadith that orders Muslims to kill non Muslims (or Muslims with the same interpretation):
Quran (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion is all for Allah"
Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."
A local imam has preached that Muslim people should profit as much as possible from our social security system (unemployment money) because that would make them a 'good' Muslim who has forced the non Muslims to pay this Jizya... That local imam also weekly preachers against the Jews and the US and is brainwashing his followers that IS is nothing but the CIA. This is very frustrating here whenever you find yourself in a situation with a Muslim discussing 'the truth'.
Quran (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"
This verse is the reason why some (but still too many) imams say that Jews have to be killed first and then the Christians.
Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."
This is the reason why some (but still too many) imams in Western Europe ask to riot in the street, burn cars, destroy windows.
Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."
Hypocrites here are other Muslims. The 'Muslims' who are not 'real Muslims'. The problem is that every Muslims can claim to be a mullah and preaches the 'right Islam', just like in for example Protestantism.
The problem with Islam is that Western people look at Islam like they look at Christianity, as just a religion. But you have to look at Islam like Christianity during inquisition, before enlightenment, as a totalitarian system. There is no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is Islam, and it only depends on the individual, or rather the group of Muslims how far they go in following their laws. IS are still "puritan" Muslims, doing everything within the Islamic laws.
By the way the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to create an Islamic state by using democracy. Once they are in power, they replace the democracy with Sharia law and create a caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood are the 'peaceful' (but you could ask the Egyptian Copts how peaceful they really are) alternative of IS. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood is the Muslim alternative for Hitlers Nazi party and has never been dismantled since the fall of the "third reich". Unfortunately they recently got the support of Obama, which was and is a big mistake. Hopefully the next president will correct this error and label them as what they are: a Nazi like, terrorist organization. Our government has currently 13 seats out of 150 (8.6 %) for Muslim Brotherhood people. Quite an achievement if you know that only 4% of the people are Muslims and most of them don't vote.
But indeed, criticizing anything that has to do with Islam is bigotry. Since 2008 it has even been implemented by the UN that criticizing Islam (or other religions) is racist and individual countries should limit free speech in that regard (thanks Obama).
They were going to try Larry Ellison but the waiting list from disgruntled Oracle and Java users meant that they wouldn't have had an attempt until 2035 at the earliest.
The inquisition was primarily carried out by secular powers. The point of the inquisition as far as the Church was concerned was that the rights of those charged with heresy were protected. Else it was very easy for a neighbor who wanted your land or your wife to accuse you of heresy. So the Church required an actual tribunal, which required actual proof before you could be convicted. Even if found guilty on a small number were ever actually executed. Even Galileo, who was an ass and prosecuted more for pissing off those in power than because he was a scientist (Copernicus, who was a monk was never prosecuted or suppressed for saying just about the same thing) was given the horrible punishment of house arrest in a palace. Woe is him.
The Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression. In 410 A.D. the whole of the Mediterranean basin was Christian. By 510 a good part was Muslim, and they didn't convert willingly, but at the point of a sword.
The Ku Klux Klan was actively opposed by the Catholic Church and other Christians.
The Nazi's were pagans, attempting to restore the worship of the Germanic pantheon, as well as being occultist. They certainly weren't Christian.
In the West, we have built very strong enduring institutions. For people who grew up in the USA, they seem to be slowly decaying becoming corrupt. But only when you come in from a different society, after growing up there, you would see the difference. The level of honesty and trust in the government, in the institutions, private or public, is very high in America. It would take India a century or more to build such institutions of integrity. I told my bond broker cousin in Bombay, "As the Watergate scandal was picking up steam, IRS audited the sitting President of the USA, found him in violation of tax code, and assessed half a million dollars in taxes and penalties. It cut Nixon's net worth by half. Nixon paid without complaining or creating a ruckus. Nixon!". He was stunned beyond belief. Such things do not simply happen there. Despite all the insider trading and the banksters becoming fraudsters, SEC and Wall Street is light years ahead of regulation and disclosure of Indian capital markets.
Here in USA we build mountains. Someone is on top of the mountain, but there are several who could replace him/her, and that person, single handedly does not achieve any thing big. In the Middle East and in India, probably China, it is all personality cult. Build one pedestal, put a flag pole on it, and put their leader on top of the flag pole. Leader goes down, there is no one to step and continue the system. The leader actively undermines and sabotages the career of anyone who could replace him. Surrounded by sycophants and flatterers, the leaders live in bubbles. India is way better than Pakistan in this respect, and Pakistan is better than Bangladesh and the Arab countries. But none of them even come close to USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and NZ in terms of governance and public integrity.
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His philanthropy may even be what is irritating them, who knows?
Actually given how out of date they seem I suspect that it may be because they have only just upgraded to Vista.
> Actually every decade we should kill off the top .01%. That by itself will keep the economy flowing as their cash will keep being moved instead of just sitting there.
I hope you're being sarcastic, but in case you're just young or woefully uninformed, I'll explain it for you. You don't get rich by putting cash under your mattress. You get rich by owning productive capital. The office you're sitting in, the computer you're using at work, and those glossy flyers advertising your company's products are the rich people's money (and our retirement savings). They get and stay rich by having their MONEY work for them rather than them just working for wages. Their money is your office, it's the Tesla factory, their money is the grocery store you shop at. You COULD take their money and use it buy Obama-phones. It is then no longer available build offices, upgrade your office equipment, or print more marketing materials to sell the company's product, or to maintain the grocery store building and equipment. You end up with a "free" phone, but you'd no loner have an office, a computer on your desk, or grocery store with working refrigeration.
They use $4,000 of their money to get you, their employee, training for a new certification and then they have an employee worth $8,000. We could let politicians decide how resources are allocated based on contributions they recieve, or we could do this:
Everybody who finds ways to cause money to increase, to use resources in a way that generates more resources, can then manage some of the new resources they created in order to create even more. They can also take a portion of the increase (profit) and distribute it to people who build good things, like cars, houses , and low-power SOCs. The first option (government control of resources) is how Cuba works now and Russia used to work, until it collapsed. The second option (people who efficiently multiply resources manage the resources to create even more and pay people to make stuff) is called capitalism.
Btw, the corollary to the first part is that if you're stuffing your money under your mattress, or spending on Starbucks, you probably won't get rich, or even particularly compfortable. To do well, you'll want to be an owner of productive capital. The easiest way to do that is to share ownership of a company like General Mills or Union Pacific. You can buy shares (part ownership) for as little as $80. To reduce risk, it's best to buy shares in 100 different companies at once. That's called a mutual fund. The best ones have low expenses. IVE and UMBIX are examples of good choices.
The Bible also has some rather violent suggestions. Such books are kind of like a Rorschach test: you see what you want in them. They both have tolerance and violence.
After clobbering each other bloody for a hundred odd years, Christian factions finally saw a giant clue-stick built out of caskets and learned to coexist peacefully. It's not Bible passages, but reality that changed them.
Unfortunately, Islam is repeating history.
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> And yet they don't do any of those really simple things.
They don't? It seems to me that SOMEONE who vowed destroy the US as we knew and "fundamentay transform" it has been destroying or blocking economically important infrastructure such as pipelines, doubling the debt, vowing to "relentlessly go after" business owners while creating uncertainty for entrepeneurs, and spreading race-based propaganda. Maybe it wasn't a terrorist per se, maybe that was somebody else who blames the US for the fact that the middle east has been at war for 3,000 years.