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10. You ARE maing excuses

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 11:40 AM

Jul 2015

Muhammad Ali did quite well despite his race and his name ... and is revered. He even changed his name from Casius Clay to Muhammad Ali fearlessly.

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Chattanooga Shooter Gave a Chilling Warning of Jihad [View all] brooklynite Jul 2015 OP

I shan't comment cosmicone Jul 2015 #1

Let them alert, some people must think fundies are special snooper2 Jul 2015 #3

Thanks for letting us know this is about you. bluedigger Jul 2015 #5

If I cannot freely express my views, it is about me as well. n/t cosmicone Jul 2015 #7

Go ahead and let them alert leftynyc Jul 2015 #9

I back you up on that. 840high Jul 2015 #37

Critiques of Islam are one thing; bigoted frothing is another. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #16

Some people see all critiques as bigoted frothing. cosmicone Jul 2015 #19

Agreed/ The Green Manalishi Jul 2015 #20

Rogues gallery of sky daddy followers FrodosPet Jul 2015 #49

Go ahead, alert then. The Green Manalishi Jul 2015 #62

I've noticed that. Let them alert. 840high Jul 2015 #36

Say what's on your mind RandiFan1290 Jul 2015 #42

I agree with everyone else romanic Jul 2015 #39

Your post offends me Telcontar Jul 2015 #40

Your offense offends me FrodosPet Jul 2015 #50

Screw him and his warped religious fantasies. Moostache Jul 2015 #2

Not completely surprising. Nye Bevan Jul 2015 #4

Even wikipedia has tried to water it down by creating a class of "political ideology" cosmicone Jul 2015 #6

I'm not making ANY excuses for this young man Plucketeer Jul 2015 #8

You ARE maing excuses cosmicone Jul 2015 #10

Technically, you are correct Plucketeer Jul 2015 #17

He spent 7 months in Jordan last year. B2G Jul 2015 #14

Well, I guess that seals it then! Plucketeer Jul 2015 #18

Why make excuses for this POS? 840high Jul 2015 #38

I loathe religions of all kinds Plucketeer Jul 2015 #43

Hate motivated him to kill 5 marines. 840high Jul 2015 #45

Maybe so Plucketeer Jul 2015 #46

This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Jul 2015 #63

But I bet he had to fly "COACH" FrodosPet Jul 2015 #52

You are making excuses melman Jul 2015 #24

Young people who have a bright future are less likely to throw it all away in a suicide mission. Chemisse Jul 2015 #27

Thanks for getting what I was getting at Plucketeer Jul 2015 #31

We like to think people who would do this are different from us. Chemisse Jul 2015 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author 6chars Jul 2015 #59

Are you actually reading what we're saying here Plucketeer Jul 2015 #60

That is utter horseshit cosmicone Jul 2015 #44

Thank you. K/r 840high Jul 2015 #47

I sure wasn't making excuses for terrorism Plucketeer Jul 2015 #48

He was an engineer Ms. Yertle Jul 2015 #28

You can have degrees out the wazoo Plucketeer Jul 2015 #51

Well, he did get a job Ms. Yertle Jul 2015 #54

He did have a job. He was a supervisor at Superior Essex in Franklin, TN. Skeeter Barnes Jul 2015 #29

That makes this a lot harder to understand. Chemisse Jul 2015 #33

You're stuck in the mindset that poverty and dispair causes terrorism Telcontar Jul 2015 #41

Huh? Plucketeer Jul 2015 #61

See post #44 cosmicone Jul 2015 #55

There are a lot of people that are christx30 Jul 2015 #30

he specificy target only the 2 stripmall 'recrutment storefronts? looks like just preaching to me. Sunlei Jul 2015 #11

He obviously had a problem with those 2 places nt B2G Jul 2015 #13

Yes, and he knew they would be unarmed. TexasMommaWithAHat Jul 2015 #15

as the Fort Hood shootings showed, military bases also comprise gun-free zones n/t Psephos Jul 2015 #22

The guards at the entries aren't armed? TexasMommaWithAHat Jul 2015 #23

Gun-free means gun-free marshall Jul 2015 #25

Only MPs may carry personal firearms on a military base. Psephos Jul 2015 #34

The guards at the gate are armed JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2015 #35

I can't see anything there that is a 'warning' muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #12

I don't give a damn if he was a Muslim. Lobo27 Jul 2015 #21

Same here. I don't know why random gun violence against strangers Warpy Jul 2015 #26

Simple. Terrorism has a political and broader motive cosmicone Jul 2015 #56

Dead is dead whether it's for geopolitics, a flat screen TV or because Warpy Jul 2015 #57

Because a political motive targets random people cosmicone Jul 2015 #58

now that shooter is dead and didn't write anything except a school yearbook single line, media Sunlei Jul 2015 #53