{"id":2427,"date":"2015-06-11T06:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2015-06-11T06:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:10:26","slug":"being-muslim-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/being-muslim-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Muslim in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major Questions Remain Unanswered in Boston Killing of Alleged ISIS Beheading Plotter<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/10\/major-questions-remain-unanswered-killing-alleged-boston-isis-beheading-plotter\/\">https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/10\/major-questions-remain-unanswered-killing-alleged-boston-isis-beheading-plotter\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been on the verge of commenting on this several times.  It is interesting to me that the only place I am seeing this sort of commentary is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.  When I first saw commentary on this whilst watching TV my radar pricked up a bit.  The vast amount of &#8216;corroborating&#8217; information that this guy was an ISIS terrorist was amazing, a flood of it, almost all from anonymous sources.  In my recollection when something like this happens &#8216;for real&#8217; the information trickles out over a long period, there is lots of contradictory statements and generally the authorities are upset when information is leaked.  This situation was\/is almost the exact opposite which makes me very suspicious.  Reading the article which details the details (which you rarely get on a 30 second TV spot) and it is clear that there is a whitewash going on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The supposed damning video is as far from damning as it is possible to get, there is not a shred of confirmation you can get from viewing it<\/li>\n<li>If, as the police claim, they wanted to question the guy, why aren&#8217;t they wearing uniforms and identifying themselves as police? (based on what I have heard from witnesses, they never identified themselves, just started shooting)<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;evidence&#8217; that the guy is a radical Islamic terrorist is a joke, to put it in its <em><strong>best possible light<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>The idea that he has been under surveillance supposedly radicalized to the point the FBI is convinced he is running around wanting to behead cops only further <strong><em>makes a mockery of their suggestion they only wanted to question him<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the article for more, then there is this interesting one:<\/p>\n<p>Florida Imam Who Claimed to Be Covert Government Operative Is Accused of Terrorism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/09\/abu-taubah-case\/\">https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/09\/abu-taubah-case\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our government actually wants to tack on 20 years to an already spurious charge based on the &#8220;Islamist&#8221; books he possessed.  That&#8217;s right, boys and girls, our great government wants to imprison this guy because he has <strong><em>a book<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Do you really think this will stop with Muslims?  Do you <em>really<\/em> think the conservative right-wing Tea Party nut jobs won&#8217;t use this <strong><em>exact same<\/em><\/strong> fucked up logic to &#8216;disappear&#8217; people they don&#8217;t like?  Our government <em>already<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/09\/30\/awlaki_6\/\">kills US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/10\/20\/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son\/\">citizens<\/a> with charges, trial or conviction!  This is going to get far worse if we don&#8217;t decided to give a damn, guaranteed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Questions Remain Unanswered in Boston Killing of Alleged ISIS Beheading Plotter https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/06\/10\/major-questions-remain-unanswered-killing-alleged-boston-isis-beheading-plotter\/ I have been on the verge of commenting on this several times. It is interesting to me that the only place I am seeing this sort of commentary is on the The Intercept. When I first saw commentary on this whilst watching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/being-muslim-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being Muslim in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}