We finally have a face to go with the name of the infamous Islamic State murderer known as “Jihadi John.” He is Mohammed Emwazi and is shown here in a Pittsburgh Pirates hat from his time at the University of Westminster. He turns out to another militant from a well-off family and someone who seemed successful in society as we have seen in other cases. This will make it easier for the United States which, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, has made capturing or killing Jihadi John a priority.
The 26-year-old now beheads people for not believing in his extreme view of Islam.
When this picture was taken he was completing his Information Systems with Business Management degree at the London’s Cavendish campus.
Cases like Emwazi tend to undermine the image of IS militants as coming from people left without jobs or a future in the West.
The Problem with The Republican Party and the Radical Reactionary Moralizing Evangelicals is they have everyone so Stirred up and Paranoid about Islam that they see a Terrorist Behind every Tree. sound Familiar?
But this is equally matched by Libs and Dems who see a Confederate flag at a veteran’s rally and see a racist in everyone there. Get a grip on your perspective, pappy.
BTW, I like your screen name. It reminds me of an article I read on American poverty which compared and contrasted white Appalachian poverty with black inner city poverty.
But this is equally matched by Libs and Dems who see a Confederate flag at a veteran’s rally and see a racist in everyone there. Get a grip on your perspective, pappy.
BTW, I like your screen name. It reminds me of an article I read on American poverty which compared and contrasted white Appalachian poverty with black inner city poverty.
I have never lost my grip. At least I don’t have to go somewhere’s else to hook up my computer. 😉
chickelit
Republican humor? Isn’t that an oxymoron??!
Inga (Annie) wrote:
Happy, that was hilarious!
Yes, we can all laugh at serious threats — this why Republican humor deployed against Obama is spot-on for the most part and why I laugh at him too.
If there was a topic about planets, someone would claim that her parents were from Uranus.
And she’d be right.
Yeah, Happy, that was great!
Happy, that was hilarious!
chickelit
Saturday night Live is not Republican Humor.
Thanks guys.
If Po thinks it’s funny, it must be. I cried I laughed so hard when I ran across it.lololol 😉
So game over did you enjoy my dad’s secret war pictures? Come back now ya hear? We need our insomniac team to win these threads.
What was I doing up at 3 a.m. No explaining insomnia or ennui. But I proved one thing to myself. My insomnia is incurable or I would have surely been put to sleep by the droneologists discussing Nazis and barbers and boundaries. Back to the question of what I was doing up. My insomnia began when my 7 year old had pericarditis – a lifetime ago. When the pericardium (a sac that holds the heart) fills with fluid, it does unkind things to the heart. You spend about 3 months bedside in pediatrics wing of a 40 day stay in hospital or “sleeping” on a drugstore lawn chaise in your son’s room – you learn not to sleep.
I wandered onto this site when I heard Turley speak in a hearing about Obama’s abuse of presidential powers. I thought I might encounter some thoughtful discussion of the problems that beset us today rather than a stroll down memory lane and through the minefields of yesteryear. I was wrong.
I do wonder this, if randyjet or you (or even I) had to write in long hand our musings, put them in an envelope and put a stamp on it and drive to the post office with it, how important would they loom in our minds?
Don’t get up,I can find my way out.
It’s only ISIS
Wait.
And former bloggers are a definite danger.
Boo!
randyjet wrote: Many people though feel that the Germans got what they deserved. I don’t feel that way since such conduct cannot be justified, even though it has long been a fact of wars historically ever since wars were fought. I recall reading an account of a German soldier observing that if Germany lost the war there would be a terrible reckoning for what they had done.
And yet we turned on a dime against out former ally, the Soviet Union, and redeployed our forces to protect the German people and what was left of free German territory after WW II. That must have really rankled Comrade Stalin.
FDR’s Sec. Treasury drew up a punitive plan to utterly pacify and deindustrialize a prostrate Germany. Fortunately, Truman decided against the Morgenthau Plan and green-lighted the Marshall Plan instead.
The complaint @ 7:50p is the classic tactic of people w/ an agenda. There are MILLIONS of injustices in the country and the world. To say that any one of those injustices not covered in a post is evidence of racism, insensitivity, bias, etc., is ludicrous on its face. But, this specific beef voiced in the 7:50p comment is the drumbeat former bloggers here all of a sudden voiced when they left. It is a scurrilous.
Wade
Sandi listens to Rush. I have yet to meet anyone who listens to Rush who has a solid grasp on reality. The common thing to them, their tenuous grasp on the political issues that they love to talk about. Their speech is peppered with keywords such as constitution, socialism, liberal and now impeachment, but rarely do they know what they are talking about.
Max
Has your father started listening to Rush recently? If not, how did you handle it earlier?
Randyjet says:
Once again, we cannot know, but your defense raises the prospect that he may have been more than an innocent bystander, which as I concede he may have been.
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That is an incredible sentence. Been working on it for a while, but seems to me that Randy is saying:
‘1- WE can’t know but
2- Because you are defending it, that suggests that you are likely, very much likely to be wrong and me right, and your grandad was exactly who I say he was
3- But I agree with the fact that you are wrong and I am right, your grandad was very likely who I say he was.
In other words, we don’t know but my accusation makes you react defensively, which proves my accusation in the first place, and I therefore acknowledge that accusation may still stand.
Nick Spinelli
“JT routinely, regularly, and quite passionately posts police abuse cases. For someone to criticize him on that front is ludicrous on its face.”
This type of comment is what I don’t understand. Simply because JT posts about police abuse cases does not immunize him from criticism on this “front”. Not only is he an influential constitutional scholar, he is also a legal educator.
JT often has much lighter language and not as great an affinity for finding out the facts (based on his posts) when “police abuse” cases are the topic. The deference JT gives to the institution of police officers is much greater than he gives individuals (in posts, not law practice). Moreover, the racial element of criminal law and police abuse is generally skirted by JT. To speak about the rule of law, but to rarely speak about our nation’s unprecedented prison population and racial elements brings much suspicion. I admire JT’s work as a criminal defense attorney, but that doesn’t mean I agree or support his posts about individual criminal cases or our legal system as a whole and how it relates to police officers. This should excite you Nick. It gives you an opportunity to showcase the beliefs you have about the good police forces are doing, and can do in our communities.
I did it years later Chickie, and they were US Navy sailors in downtown Milwaukee. You know I’m 63.
You did? Just how old ARE you?
I did!
Just don’t do that when you’re 16. 🙂
Inga, that is an adorable photo at 6:53. That is how nations heal.