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April 24th, 2013
09:32 AM ET
Opinion: The appeal of Islamic radicalism
By Ken Ballen, Special to CNN (CNN) - There are many unanswered questions about the motivations of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. But it is becoming increasingly clear that they were inspired by faith in a radical Islamist ideology. Dzhokhar has told investigators that, among other things, he and his brother wanted to defend Islam, while Tamerlan's social media accounts are replete with clips by extremist clerics. As the investigation continues to unravel the seeming paradox of how two apparently normal young men could commit acts of violence, classmates, neighbors and relatives of those who knew them have expressed surprise and disbelief. I have interviewed over the past seven years more than a hundred radical extremists, including numerous al Qaeda and Taliban members, and it appears the Tsarnaev brothers fit the profile of many young men who turn to radicalism. Young men—and they are almost always between the ages of 16 and 30—who convert to the radical Islamist cause come from a variety of socioeconomic and family circumstances. Before their conversion (and even often after), to all outward appearances they resemble their peers and seem like any other young men. What changes them? FULL STORY
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Free speech helps educate the masses
Gravity is not up for debate !
BY the way ...................Splat goes a fairy in the sky !...............bye bye tinker bell !
Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet
Apr. 25, 2013 — A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extremely strong gravity of a massive neutron star in orbit with a companion white dwarf star puts competing theories of gravity to a test more stringent than any available before
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425142250.htm
Hey James Madison................religion has none it looks like.............with the comments on this blog.
The Big question is ETHICS ! does religion have any ?
The Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species
Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408165955.htm
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Dinosaur Egg Study Supports Evolutionary Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs: How Troodon Likely Hatched Its Young
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130418104324.htm
And NO ANGELS the pope KICKED them OFF the TEAM last year !
From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE2aOriginoflife.shtml
the wrong path is Adam and Eve !
Human Y Chromosome Much Older Than Previously Thought
Mar. 4, 2013 — The discovery and analysis of an extremely rare African American Y chromosome pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the Y chromosome lineage tree to 338,000 years ago. This time predates the age of the oldest known anatomically modern human fossils.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305145821.htm
No god(s) needed or required to graduate from public schools in the US
Remember : Adam had to POKE himself hard with his OWN BONE to create Eve.
No god(s) needed................... Old. DNA works..................also catches crooks !
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Dynamic Genetic History
Apr. 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern Europe.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423134037.htm
Ca-nabis and Cannabinoids (PDQ®) – National Cancer Insti-tute
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/.../page4
Mar 21, 2013 – [1,2] These plant-derived compounds may be referred to as phytocannabinoids. ... have a protective effect against the development of certain types of tumors. ... In lung cancer cell lines, CBD upregulated ICAM-1, leading to ...
Good stuff !
The fact...............the earth is to old for this nonsemse ! Time to EVOLVE !
Ancient Earth Crust Stored in Deep Mantle
Apr. 24, 2013 — Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New research from a team including Carnegie's Erik Hauri demonstrates that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Their work is published in Nature.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424132705.htm
Is it really surprising that Christ and Osiris WERE called "anointed" ? Kings did get anointed in that culture, ya know.
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not faith ?
Where did you go faith ?
Hey faith are you a ghost of xmas past ?
Engineering 'Ghost' Objects: Breakthrough in Scattering Illusion
Feb. 19, 2013 — A team at the NUS Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering led by Dr Qiu Cheng-Wei has come out with an optical device to "engineer" ghosts.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130219090643.htm
Holy Hallucinations 35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XTCRdC8Dlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxk9TvyJrs
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The only Idea that will truly defeat the Radicalism
has already sent by this one and only GOD of Abraham and David & Ishmael and Muhammad
(=i.e. YAHWEH ELOHIM = HUWA ALLAH)
here now:
http://www.holy-19-harvest.com
UNIVERSAL MAGNIFICENT MIRACLES
The LAST DAY is here...........time to quite playing in the sand box and grow up maybe ?
Surprising New Function for Small RNAs in Evolution.........time to pound sand maybe ?
Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism. The researchers found that the number of hairs on flies' legs varies according to the level of activity of a so-called microRNA.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419075909.htm
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not LAST DAY ?
@fred,
"You are correct bad things cannot happen in the presence of God as it an impossibility."
April 24, 2013 at 3:28 pm
"good and bad things happen in the presence of God because God is."
April 24, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Please, explain how you reconcile these two statements.
Fred sometimes speaks in parables.
If Fred seems to contradict himself, it's just becuase you don't understand the context.
The ways of Fred are mysterious, but it is not for us to question him.
You can't cherry pick Fredisms – you must accept everything at face value.
That's why it's called faith!
MR FRED.................can go pound sand !
Surprising New Function for Small RNAs in Evolution.
Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism. The researchers found that the number of hairs on flies' legs varies according to the level of activity of a so-called microRNA.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419075909.htm
Science,reality,really, shut the Fuk up with pushing you're atheist agenda. Let people believe in what they want to. When you try to force people to believe what you do you become exactly what you say is wrong with religious people.
Hey Big S ...........you can believe what you want it is for the Children !
An Awesome Message from P.W. Swivel
People are People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbD3Hlbvafo
Thanks for watching.
It would be NICE......... but
Maybe they should not have created the wedge !!!
The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Insti-tute, the hub of the intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Insti-tute manifesto known as the Wedge Docu-ment,[1] which describes a broad social, political, and academic agenda whose ultimate goal is to defeat materialism, naturalism, evolution, and "reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic
convictions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy
Peace
Please watch
The African Rift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWkmgkS00w
Dover Trial Transcripts............................................. FACTS.
Below are the complete transcripts from the Dover Trial. Thanks to our friends at the National Center for Science Education for helping us fill in the missing transcripts.
http://www.aclupa.org/legal/legaldocket/intelligentdesigncase/dovertrialtranscripts.htm
One more for you Big S
Shout-Out: logicked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns5pnPab29k
And laws of association makes it part of the devil's cults too ...........does it not ........Big S ?
The fact that you don't think god and science(not you fool)can coexist shows your short sightedness.
Vatican seeks to rebrand its relationship with science...............guess so Big S
By Florence Davey-Attlee, CNN
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/page/4/?hpt=li_bn7
Have a great fairy in the sky day.
Peace
Fuk the Vatican and Fuk you.
No thanks
Peace
Chomp Chomp ..............cool stuff !
Thai Researchers Discover 100-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Fossile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwD_hjq_V7U
The fact...............the earth is to old for this nonsemse ! Time to EVOLVE !
Ancient Earth Crust Stored in Deep Mantle
Apr. 24, 2013 — Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New research from a team including Carnegie's Erik Hauri demonstrates that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Their work is published in Nature.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424132705.htm
Achmed the dead terrorist has a son, guess who?
I vote you.
If you hemorrhoids like me you would be bitter too ism.
The kids at the animal shelter were told to come here.
Upon the admissions of others, we all are celestial creations wherein our insides; lives our body’s creators and makers and shapers of atomic creativities. Infinitesimally small are our enigmatic Gods; ever to live upon the insides of all things celestially made and bio’logic’ally grown.
The finite is not infinite and yet the infinite finiteness ebbs and flows onwards onto forever, upon the infinity of nothingness. We being people are as gods living upon a celestial cosmos. Our atomically made and biologically framed micro-cosmological bodies are as universes and we all are mere buildings wherein the Gods all live and take refuge. All of celestially formed Life is as cellular cosmologies, the miniaturized celestial chasms of living universalisms.
LL is the belief blog pseudo intellect, don't bother trying to read their drivel just laugh and move on.
Woody Allen would love this guy.
smells like CS
It's not CS. Lionlylamb is for real.
Islamic and other fundamentalisms averaged percentiles' leveraging ratios of peer-based radicalisms moving passed condemnation points are jilted and scorned by the awkward humaneness of civil cultures being socially bred in generational quandaries seeking ever that and wanting ever this all without the relativities in the understanding of knowledge-based
portrayals/
We hear you Lionly. We hear you.
Upon the lonesomeness of the radicalisms spews hatredisms toward the innocentisms.
We hear you, but we sure as hell don't understand you.
this made me laugh because it is true
http://imgur.com/cMsJ7FR
IT IS TIME TO MAKE THIS ISLAMIC GHOST DISAPPEARED, CLICK ON REPORT ABUSE
Let it face the humiliation it wants.
What abuse has he commited...which of the terms of service were violated.
It is a babbling lunatic with nothing of value to offer, but it has the right to speak its form of text based diarrhea all it wants...Just ignore it...it is harmless
So, Richard, the constant racism doesn't violate the TOS?
@Richard, these are the types responsible for misleading or radicalizing young muslims, like you just witnessed in Boston, one guy is dead, other is going to spend rest of his life behind bars, all because someone, rat like Pakistani Mohammad over here, poisoned their mind.
stfu
SO you would rather these people NOT speak in public, where we can hear what they say and speak up when we dis-agree? You would rather force them underground where their words will only be heard by the dis-enfranchised?
Freedom of speech is important, not just from a liberty standpoint, but from a community standpoint.
Peoples minds are "poisoned" all of the time, I personally feel that all religions use various brainwashing techniques to indoctrinate their young, and so much based on the bible which is obviously NOT gods word but mans, but people are taught to believe it. That is "poisoning" too....best to have it in the open.
Richard, I understand what you are saying, and if I judge you by your views, you are the people made this country so great, truly open minded people, but we have to stop them when their free speeches turn abuse or into hurting feeling of someone; I would never accept Nazi propaganda or KKK speeches, or Louis Farrakhan speeches for freedom of expression. Out of hundreds and thousands, it takes just one guy to snap. I come here on BB, and enjoy all different point of views of HeavenSent, Chad, Lionlylamb, Alkira, Apple Bush, but this guy p!sses me off, so, although, I agree with your thoughts, but disagree on let them go unchallenged
It was safe until the dogs came.
woof woof woof woof
I like pork chops.
http://youtu.be/1uwOL4rB-go
My Father was a magician, he made everyone pass out in mosques (and then he emptied everyones pockets), he made good money, see yourself how he robbed people in mosques
http://youtu.be/hbFVAu1WYbw
you mean looser !!
Tis all about the Three B Syndrome (Bred, Born and Brainwashed) is some form of religion and in this case Islam:
Added details:
“John Hick, a noted British philosopher of religion, estimates that 95 percent of the people of the world owe their religious affiliation to an accident (the randomness) of birth. The faith of the vast majority of believers depends upon where they were born and when. Those born in Saudi Arabia will almost certainly be Moslems, and those born and raised in India will for the most part be Hindus. Nevertheless, the religion of millions of people can sometimes change abruptly in the face of major political and social upheavals. In the middle of the sixth century ce, virtually all the people of the Near East and Northern Africa, including Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt were Christian. By the end of the following century, the people in these lands were largely Moslem, as a result of the militant spread of Islam.
The Situation Today
Barring military conquest, conversion to a faith other than that of one’s birth is rare. Some Jews, Moslems, and Hindus do convert to Christianity, but not often. Similarly, it is not common for Christians to become Moslems or Jews. Most people are satisfied that their own faith is the true one or at least good enough to satisfy their religious and emotional needs. Had St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas been born in Mecca at the start of the present century, the chances are that they would not have been Christians but loyal followers of the prophet Mohammed. “ J. Somerville
It is very disturbing that religious narrow- mindedness, intolerance, violence and hatred continues unabated due to randomness of birth. Maybe, just maybe if this fact would be published on the first page of every newspaper every day, that we would finally realize the significant stupidity of all religions.
absolute hinduism, others absurdity of a secular , fool GOD ignorant self centered by faith, speaking of himself subject, not of subject, but shear hinduism lies to hind, truth of hindu and in to denial hinduism, truth, boom, boom, truth, boom.
desperately poor + devoutly religious = religious extremist
So you could also choose to end poverty and still manage to fix your equation?
AGREE !!!
For all creationists and ID believers...............IT only takes minutes to figure IT out. No fairy in the sky needed !
New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full Genetic Data in Minutes
May 6, 2013 — Take a swab of saliva from your mouth and within minutes your DNA could be ready for analysis and genome sequencing with the help of a new device.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130506132100.htm
And NO ANGELS then old pope KICKED them in OFF the TEAM last year !
From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE2aOriginoflife.shtml
Pope's book on Jesus challenges Christmas traditions
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
updated 10:56 AM EST, Fri November 23, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/22/world/europe/vatican-pope-jesus-book/index.html?iref=allsearch
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And a tag along......from previous thread Bill ?
Did you forget this one Bill................... about the angels ?
And NO ANGELS then old pope KICKED them in OFF the TEAM last year !
From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIE2aOriginoflife.shtml
Pope's book on Jesus challenges Christmas traditions
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
updated 10:56 AM EST, Fri November 23, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/22/world/europe/vatican-pope-jesus-book/index.html?iref=allsearch
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All these years Bill and there are suppose to be angels.......................then poof go the angels according to the old pope;.......
where are the morals there Bill ?
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Or is that to simple for you Bill ?