In the name of religion?

Metal detectors sound like a reasonable preventative action. But I’m a bit doubtful they would deter a committed suicide bomber. The detectors might in fact create a bottleneck for people entering the mall and, although outside, still result in multiple killings.
I’m not certain the shop owners would be all that enthusiastic either since it may reduce mall attendance due to inconvenience. But I realize this is a very secondary concern.

Heather I agree with your comments for the most part. But I think all tools including instruction as to a Somali profile should not be excluded. I think this would be valuable when observing people in a crowd. Suspicious clothing of course is part of the security target.

Converts!

OK this was interesting to me anyway.....

Glenn Beck (I know lunatic right-wing idiot) was showing clips from his old FOX News show (2011). In 2011 he (Beck) was reporting the evidence on radical Islam and predicted multiple times their goal being to create an Islamic Caliphate.

He then showed other TV clips (2011 time), MSNBC, Jon Stewart, Colbert, CNN etc., mocking him and FOX News for suggesting such a caliphate.

Finally, Beck presented how the "main stream media" including MSNBC are now today reporting the goal of an Islamic Caliphate and the severe problems ISIS may cause.

I could be partisan and ask.....do you watch the News to find out what happened today...or do you watch News to enhance your perspective?

Regardless though, it is best to watch and read from diverse sources


You have some sympathy for my husband now don't you!

I refer to Fox News as Faux News. I listen to Public Radio now. I don't align myself with politicians that are far right or far left. I consider myself to be a Moderate.

A single "acherrystone likes this" is insufficient for so profound a statement.

Imagine there's no tune.
It's easy if you try
It's well below us
A dove can only fly
Imagine all the dirges
Dying, we can only pray

Well, my childhood did include a girl who tried to convert me religiously. She said she couldn't be my friend because I was Jewish. She then started to bully me.. and this was after we were friends for a while first! She even got other girls to bully me with her. This was back in elementary school.. I was probably around 10 or 11?

So, yeah.. I'm sure her mother realized I was Jewish and told her bad things about me. I don't feel like kids just behave that way on their own... it is definitely learned.

Ever since then I didn't want to tell anyone what my religion was.

Believe it or not, you are my first jewish friend ever.

I am sure I have others, but they have never owned up to it. 

There was an article on the radio here a while ago, and all the young jews are now calling themselves wejs, in order to try and re-align people's thoughts of them.

I have never come across any anti semitism in this country. Plenty of anti-catholic in Scotland, but nothing against the jews.

I am sorry you had a hard time, being brought up catholic in Scotland, I know just how you feel.

Incidentally, over her there is the common belief that it is the jews who run america. They are the hand up the puppet president.

It is the common belief here, too, but it's not meant in a nice way lol "greedy jews" is how jews are seen.. we control everything, and we're greedy, selfish people... lol

Being Jewish to me is more of a cultural thing than religious really. I appreciate the traditions, and I enjoy sharing them with others. I'm more agnostic religiously ;-)

Netanyahu’s (Tuesday) speech to the US Congress….

This is a tremendous personal and political gamble by Netanyahu. He is putting it all on the line by addressing Congress and warning them of the Iranian threat. It's why so many of us in America admire him. Despite the controversy, despite the threat to his re-election, Netanyahu is coming to America to tell his ally they are making a grave error by trusting Iran on a nuclear deal.

With all the Islamic turmoil in the Mid-East, does anyone seriously think Israel is the problem? Is there really any concession Israel could make that would make any difference?

They remain and always have been the main problem.

They could stop being them... that would be a good concession.

How can it not be a problem? The modern state of Israel was set up as a concession to placate the Jewish people after the horror of WWII and honestly because the rest of the world didnt want the nation of Israel camping on their doorstep ie NIMBY.

The setting up of that state involved stealing land from the idiginous people who lived there and since its conception Israel has grown massively (see map in link) each time Israel grows it is in fact stealing yet more land..

Israel has maintained a blockade on goods and materiels entering Gaza since 2007 causing a real humanitairan crisis and forcing the people there to live in ghetto like situations.

Im not ranting about Israel or Jews Im against anyone who discriminates against another , marches in takes their land forces their people to live in squalor and poverty whilst all the time claiming to be a victim.. but if the cap fits....

I know if this happened to me I would want to fight back.. www.globalresearch.ca/facts-all-us-citizens-need-to-know-about-israel-and-palestine/5391043

www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-cohen/the-inconvenient-truth-ab_b_606276.html

I do believe that a religion as old as the jews, and as persecuted as the jews were in WW2, should have somewhere to call home.

But, you negotiate a deal, and then you stick to the agreement until fresh negotiations take place and a new agreement is made.

That is the moral route. Anything other is dictatorship.

I am no expert, but I don't believe even Israel is so totalitarian that the place is solely jewish.

Italy is accepted as a catholic country, as is Spain. The UK is accepted as a protestant country. In all of these countries other religions co-exist, but the broad aspect of religion in each country is what governs.