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18. Yes, but they are not.

Mon Jan 12, 2015, 07:32 PM

Jan 2015

There has been a vast amalgam, left and right, in Europe and in this country, about who these people were. For the most part, they have grown up in the West and are largely European. I happen to know the place her boyfriend grew up. It is a very poor housing project, and it has been going downhills for at least 20 years. During the previous socialist government, it was considered a zone to help in priority (after another housing projects rebellion, I think, but I would guess that, with the economic crisis, the funds have been lost.

Anyway, for many of these people, asserting their origin is a way to protest, not necessarily a religious conviction. So this is not surprising.

This is not to say that nobody believes in a strict Islam, this would be going the other way, but I am not surprised there would be pictures like that.

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Wolf Blitzer says he has seen a picture of the dead terrorist's gf in a bikini. [View all] MoonRiver Jan 2015 OP

And? Mass Jan 2015 #1

Just sounds weird. MoonRiver Jan 2015 #4

Why? Mass Jan 2015 #6

We have been told they are Islamic Fundies. I don't think that women are allowed to wear bikinis sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #10

I, for one, am unconvinced that they are Islamic Fundamentalists. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #15

But what else are they, there is no "profit deal" here that we know of, right? randys1 Jan 2015 #29

What would they have had to have said or done to convince you otherwise? oberliner Jan 2015 #48

Had they not done it at all, for one. And if they hadn't shouted "Allah Akbar", etc. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #49

You think it was unusual that they shouted that phrase? oberliner Jan 2015 #50

weren't they upset over pictures of muhammed , not bikinis ? JI7 Jan 2015 #17

Yes, but they are not. Mass Jan 2015 #18

exactly, i think people forget that most of these terrorists are either nationals of western nations JI7 Jan 2015 #21

Thanks, but that is why I said it is 'what we have been told'. I remember the riots sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #36

The Daily Mail showed a picture of her in one before she converted. polly7 Jan 2015 #40

Because she's supposed to be an extremist Muslim woman. MoonRiver Jan 2015 #22

Read my post above. Mass Jan 2015 #24

I think there's an exception if it helps kill infidels. branford Jan 2015 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author big_dog Jan 2015 #28

The news networks have been showing a number of pictures of her, branford Jan 2015 #2

Cherchez la femme. Fawke Em Jan 2015 #3

Ok. I've been gone all day. MoonRiver Jan 2015 #5

Is she still at-large? Oklahoma_Liberal Jan 2015 #7

Yes, she left for Syria before the attacks. Mass Jan 2015 #9

here, it's already been reported before, with her terrorist boyfriend JI7 Jan 2015 #8

Not such a marvelous alQaeda Muslim woman after all MoonRiver Jan 2015 #13

or maybe it's what we assume about terrorists, it's the women who do wear hijabs and other things JI7 Jan 2015 #16

No hypocrisy. Just vast generalization from the West.\nt Mass Jan 2015 #20

That makes NO senses. MoonRiver Jan 2015 #30

who is they ? why did awlaki get prostitutes ? JI7 Jan 2015 #33

What are you talking about? MoonRiver Jan 2015 #34

my point is assumptions about terrorists, people assume they hate us for freedoms JI7 Jan 2015 #35

I'm not talking about what I "think." MoonRiver Jan 2015 #39

that's mostly the US which focuses on certain things JI7 Jan 2015 #42

I believe this was before she was to have converted to Islam. nt. polly7 Jan 2015 #41

Yes glasshouses Jan 2015 #43

didn't she grow up muslim ? she is of algerian descent and changed her last name to sound more JI7 Jan 2015 #45

Not according to what I read, she converted not long ago. I'll try to find it. nt. polly7 Jan 2015 #46

What, this girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene? NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #11

CNN, never change. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #12

Reminds me of the "White Widow" CJCRANE Jan 2015 #14

WTF! Blitzer is a freak. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #19

Wolff just likes thinking about all those "Jezebels" that "led him astray" with their "honey pot" VanillaRhapsody Jan 2015 #23

as they say, Wolf, pics or it does not count. AngryAmish Jan 2015 #25

Put up or shut up, Wolff dissentient Jan 2015 #27

Well you see.. he had this dream early this morning notadmblnd Jan 2015 #31

I imagine that situation got very sticky while he was down in his mother's basement. madinmaryland Jan 2015 #32

I have pics of Wolf in a Ester Williams one piece . olddots Jan 2015 #37

Hellfire missile coming your way. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #38

This was before she converted nt riderinthestorm Jan 2015 #44

God knows what goes on in the situation room after hours Blue Owl Jan 2015 #47

I'm guessing Blitzer gets to address the situation in his pants. Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2015 #51

OWED : One new monitor. bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #52