but most generally we experience a particular flavor of Arab-dominated Islamic extremism
So... Boko Haram in Nigeria is Arab-dominated? Huh.
Do you also support contract killings? Because he ordered hits on a few people.
Or so you've been told by the Fed^H^H^H Media.
Yes, I can see it now. A stripped Linux kernel will boot, and then in turn will boot the SystemD-OS.
What stuns me is that Linus still doesn't seem to give a care, even as the very ground under his feet erodes into thin air.
Khomeini was a clever bastard who tricked the Iranian reformists who wished to replace the Shah with a democracy. He promised before he got on a plane in France to be merely a figurehead. In short order he had co-opted the revolution (which was, by and large to that point, secular in nature).
History repeats. The intellectuals that started the Russian Revolution got bum-rushed (and ice-axed) by their own thugs (Stalin and Beria).
But that was how many years ago? 500+? The Catholic church and it's beliefs have greatly changed since. The way I see it, Islam (or some members/sections of it) today is where the Christian/Catholic religion was many centuries ago was.
Dr. George Tiller was murdered (ironically in the doorway of his church) by a Christian zealot for daring to assist women in controlling their own freaking bodies.
But this does point out the one common bedrock of all organized religions: the control and subjugation of women, up to and including rape and murder.
Fuck religion (all of them).
One major drug smuggling gang has been able to continue flooding the UK with Class A narcotics unimpeded for the last year after changing their operations.
Simple: legalize it all. Now, you've removed the massive profits, reduced the associated violence of the sellers, the theft and robbery crimes of the users, while also reducing the amount of ODs, allied health costs, and even deaths, ala Portugal.
But they have no idea of allowing these solid, provable benefits to society, as it would be a detriment to their power and money (i.e., they're just another criminal organization).
We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fisher