An Absurd Rite of Passage – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic

Idea Lab – Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers? – NYTimes.com. They say they believe in freedom and share our values. They say a few bad apples shouldn’t bring down judgment on their entire kind. Don’t be fooled. Though they walk among us with impunity, they are, in the words of Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University, “a group that is notoriously associated with terrorist violence and fundamentalist political beliefs.” They are engineers.

It’s all about us having our own civilizations and figuring out ways to mess it up. There is no unitary whole. We will always have someone to fight. Technorati Tags: ClashOfCivilizations

I need to go Zell Miller on my Muslim family for a second. Has to be done after reading this article. My dear Sisters and Brothers, Are you stupid? There are almost 1.3 billion Muslims in the world, but seems like every Muslim who comes to the US has a pedigree that includes generations of inbreeding. The US offers us unprecedented ability to worship, but we let a group of dubious credentials violate our souls be letting them tell us what Islam is. The group that literally defecates on the house of the Prophet (PBUH), we allow them to tell…