Extremists in America target minorities and individuals daily. Dylan Roof, Eric Rudolph and the killer of Dr. George Tiller come to mind. Hate crimes against Shiites in Sunni countries would be a Muslim analogue but the term hate crime is not yet part of their vocabulary. This link refers to "crimes" but not the term hate except in the headline.
Headline: "6-year old murdered in alleged hate-crime in Medina, Saudi Arabia."
Questions are being raised over the lack of public concern and proper investigation being done towards the brutal murder of a young Saudi boy in broad daylight in the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia last Thursday.
According to sources close to the family, Zakaria Al-Jaber, around the age of 6, was traveling with his mother in a taxi on their way to the Prophet’s mosque and grave in the middle of the day. The taxi driver, for yet unestablished reasons, then pulled over the car, got out, and forced the boy out of the car near a coffee shop in the Al-Tilal neighborhood. The taxi driver then broke a glass bottle to obtain a shard of glass, which he then used to cut the throat of the child and stab him.
The mother, who unsuccessfully had tried to stop the man, collapsed out of trauma. Onlookers say a policeman who happened to be stationed nearby had also attempted to stop the man from attacking the child but was unsuccessful in saving the boy. The policeman restrained the man until police backup was called.
While Saudi Arabia has been quick to claim mental health issues on the part of the taxi driver as an explanation for why the boy was murdered, locals have claimed this was an act of sectarianism because the boy was from a Shia Muslim background, and point to the fact that many crimes against the Shia minority of Saudi Arabia have been committed before.
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Do not skip this one. The referring link is dated 2013 but the video was posted in 2010. There's good reason it survives.
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This one's a keeper...
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The Vogelherd horse – an ice age masterpiece crafted in mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany. It would be another 33 millennia or so before the sculptors of Ancient Greece came close to such an exquisite rendering of equine form #IceAgeArt pic.twitter.com/RfKCZpALhz— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) March 22, 2019
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I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali's Sexual Conduct Apology Letter*** Profanity alert! ***
Last night, I made cinnamon rolls. I’m not a huge fan of cinnamon rolls, per se, but this recipe was included in Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct apology letter, and so I feel compelled to make them. Batali is not the first powerful man to request forgiveness for “inappropriate actions” towards his coworkers and employees. He is not the most high profile, and he is ostensibly not even the worst offender. But he is the only one who included a recipe.
And of course, the glaring question is why? Was his PR team drunk? Is life suddenly a really long, depressing SNL sketch? Do these cinnamon rolls somehow destroy the patriarchy? Does the icing advocate for equal pay?
I figure the only way to answer these questions is to make the damn rolls.
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This last link is a hard act to follow. That's all for today.
I certainly would not forget the Bernie Sanders supporter who shot up the baseball game where Steve Scalise was and who had to be hospitalized, the attacker of the American Family Association in DC and the numerous attacks on pro-lifers by violent leftists and the recent attack of the young man on the university of California Berkeley as well.
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