tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post3269404798882452589..comments2023-11-17T02:23:26.098-06:00Comments on A Penigma - a mystery, under a pseudonym: Islamo-terrorists in France, and the role of the radical right and the NRAPenigmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134413210507419937noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-78674203814728518542015-01-19T13:31:20.337-06:002015-01-19T13:31:20.337-06:00Take your own advice, Emery. I'm not the one ...Take your own advice, Emery. I'm not the one in a hole.<br /><br />You might want to check out these two examples of what I mean -- that other kinds of terrorism than Islamist terrorism are misclassfied, and get far less attention.<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html<br dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-72178943400573058572015-01-18T06:29:22.002-06:002015-01-18T06:29:22.002-06:00Last year I read a book on modern astronomy, which...Last year I read a book on modern astronomy, which had said that both Neptune and Pluto were predicted long before they had ever been seen because of peculiarities in the orbits of the other outer planets. It made me think that planets weren’t so very different from people. Seeing what happened around them was enough to tell you where they were and what they were.Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-84764893146859241772015-01-17T22:30:19.286-06:002015-01-17T22:30:19.286-06:00“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging”
Wil...“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging”<br />Will RogersEmeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-34320862131017169692015-01-16T18:42:10.280-06:002015-01-16T18:42:10.280-06:00The vast majority of political terrorism in the Un...The vast majority of political terrorism in the United States is perpetrated by non-Muslims: <a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/more-terror-less-coverage/" rel="nofollow">fair.org/extra-online-articles/more-terror-less-coverage/</a><br /><br />Yet, these people can buy guns in the US.Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-4834361221434260302015-01-15T10:14:03.773-06:002015-01-15T10:14:03.773-06:00I doubt either of our commenters are familiar with...I doubt either of our commenters are familiar with groups like Jobbik or Veems or PEGIDO, much less how they connect to the US right wing domestic terrorists and crime.<br /><br />This might help:<br />http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html<br /><br />and another example:<br />http://dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-21914446505549556862015-01-15T09:50:27.581-06:002015-01-15T09:50:27.581-06:00Even now, as the details continue to unfold from t...Even now, as the details continue to unfold from the attacks in France, it is unclear what actual membership (if any) the perpetrators had with either ISIL or Al Quaida in the Arabian Peninsula, particularly as relates to either funding or any kind of control or direction from those entities.<br /><br />In any case - back to the MAIN TOPIC at hand. The Belgian non-Islamist black-market sells to dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-25333002616266045982015-01-15T09:49:57.786-06:002015-01-15T09:49:57.786-06:00No, Emery -- I read it all, carefully. And yes, I...No, Emery -- I read it all, carefully. And yes, I recognize that the article was referencing US terrorism.<br /><br />The POINT which you seemed to miss, is that there are all those terrorists in the US which are NOT included, recognized or acknowledge in the NCTC list --and that is A LOT OF TERRORISTS WHO ARE NOT MUSLIM.<br /><br />That percentage carries through in a lot of other countries, dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-40063245123756142172015-01-14T20:07:03.291-06:002015-01-14T20:07:03.291-06:00DG: You really need to read the fine print in the ...DG: You really need to read the fine print in the Loonwatch piece. The percentages are only about the situation in the United States. Which neither the author or the title makes clear.<br /><br />Secondly their math is faulty. 94% of all terrorists -- globally, not in the United States -- are Muslims. What Loonwatch is apparently doing is to simply use that figure itself, applied it only to the Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-9259659721328069262015-01-14T12:09:14.075-06:002015-01-14T12:09:14.075-06:00Btw Emory -- how do you define homeland security a...Btw Emory -- how do you define homeland security as partisan, but NOT the NCTC?<br />You DO know, don't you, that the right wing terrorism report was crafted under a right wing administration, don't you? It was released under Obama's presidency, but it was crafted by an agency administered by conservatives.<br />BOTH the NCTC and Homeland Security are government agencies, and both dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-272751640635275882015-01-14T11:59:08.203-06:002015-01-14T11:59:08.203-06:00Homeland security's definition of terrorist di...Homeland security's definition of terrorist disputes -- and correctly so -- the definition used by NCTC, and applies the generally accepted one that matches up with the dictionary.<br /><br />NCTC pretty much focuses ONLY on terrorism that is directed at nations, rather than smaller entities. That is NOT a legitimate definition, nor does the NCTC quantify the number of terrorists in the dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-82313074637403208462015-01-13T15:08:57.066-06:002015-01-13T15:08:57.066-06:00Nice link, which in my estimation is about as cred...Nice link, which in my estimation is about as credible as the PJ Media links that MBerg often uses. I suppose you have to go with what you can *find*. It also appears you want to redefine the definition of “terrorist”. I’ll trust the credible data at the non-partisan NCTC, rather than the editorial content of an idealogical website.Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-91176888983496245242015-01-13T14:13:33.985-06:002015-01-13T14:13:33.985-06:00First link should have taken you here: www.npr.org...First link should have taken you here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/24/178668578/people-on-terror-watch-list-not-blocked-from-buying-guns" rel="nofollow">www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/24/178668578/people-on-terror-watch-list-not-blocked-from-buying-guns</a>Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-11051314814678342012015-01-13T14:12:02.843-06:002015-01-13T14:12:02.843-06:00And if you want an idea of how piss poor your Gove...And if you want an idea of how piss poor your Government is at protecting you, <a href="www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/04/24/178668578/people-on-terror-watch-list-not-blocked-from-buying-guns" rel="nofollow">realise that people on the Terrorist Watch list are not barred from buying firearm.</a><br /><br />Of course, this situation has been brought to you courtesy of the NRA: <a href="httpsLaci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-527334232613882872015-01-13T13:39:48.326-06:002015-01-13T13:39:48.326-06:00Let's toss in activities by the radical right ...Let's toss in activities by the radical right that violate <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115" rel="nofollow">18 U.S. Code Chapter 115</a>, even thought there is something out there that claims "equal justice before the law", US right wing groups seem immune from the same scrutiny as did the communists at one time.<br /><br />Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-73611450650280941752015-01-13T13:35:55.251-06:002015-01-13T13:35:55.251-06:00I'm going to toss in another point on the Nati...I'm going to toss in another point on the National Counterterrorism Center--they appear to track only groups which are not DOMESTIC.<br /><br />I can tell you that Continuity IRA would be about as likely to strike in the US as I am to have a winning ticket in Powerball. In fact, the winning ticket is far more likely. The IRA has always gotten support from the US and attacking its support Laci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-2193163270509362532015-01-13T13:23:36.814-06:002015-01-13T13:23:36.814-06:00The problem is that somehow any act of terrorism w...The problem is that somehow any act of terrorism which is not perpetrated by a Muslim in the United States somehow is not classified as "terrorism". And even thought the National Counterterrorism Center is a US Governmental body, it also seems to neglect the obvious threat from the US right wing.<br /><br />Then again, if you trust the US Government to protect you from Terrorist threatsLaci The Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138644349857941157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-71029440946205343092015-01-13T12:24:58.046-06:002015-01-13T12:24:58.046-06:00continued..
Going further still, certain organiza...continued..<br /><br />Going further still, certain organizations and movements, like the separatist movement in Northern Ireland, may be "inactive" for now, but are hardly abandoned. At one time, it certainly boasted a very large number of supporters in Ireland AND IN THE US, a population which would not have been included in the NCTC list. Equally, groups like the Tamil Tigers, FARCPenigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05134413210507419937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-71678321422289674192015-01-13T12:21:45.504-06:002015-01-13T12:21:45.504-06:00Emory,
First, saying you want to "respectfu...Emory, <br /><br />First, saying you want to "respectfully disagree" a few sentences behind saying, "It's embarrassing to see.." are contradictions. You aren't being respectful, far from it. This stems from simply answering the question, for whom are you embarrassed? For Dog Gone? If "yes" then get over yourself and/or look up the word. You on get to bePenigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05134413210507419937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-3033945560581709452015-01-13T11:04:55.475-06:002015-01-13T11:04:55.475-06:00Rudy, Emory, I'd be happy to debate these stat...Rudy, Emory, I'd be happy to debate these statistics with you.<br /><br />And yes, I can back up my assertion. I think you will find some significant differences in the national counter terrorism center's definition from the definitions used by others -- including in our own government (like the FBI).<br /><br />http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/not-all-terrorists-are-muslims/<br /><br />dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-20118002544734649562015-01-13T09:13:17.806-06:002015-01-13T09:13:17.806-06:00The National Counterterrorism Center and I would r...The National Counterterrorism Center and I would respectfully beg to differ with you. As you will find in the links provided below, Muslims comprise the majority of terrorist groups in the world. You will also find on the NCTC website links to addition resources most of which include the usual alphabet soup of acronyms in our National Security apparatus. If you follow the data, I respectfully Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-46360154800155060892015-01-12T06:06:34.589-06:002015-01-12T06:06:34.589-06:00It’s embarrassing to see a blogger cling to her “f...It’s embarrassing to see a blogger cling to her “factually false” statements regarding “Most of the terrorists in the world are Muslim”. Quite frankly I find it more than embarrassing; it’s intellectually dishonest.<br /><br />The National Counterterrorism Center lists the top 52 terrorist organizations in the world and the *vast majority* are Muslim.<br /> <br />“Foreign Terrorist Organizations&Emeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00523849258546459342noreply@blogger.com