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[Bisnic]

The Mongols were defeated by the Mamluks, after they consumed the Caliphate. They then converted to Islam and settled down.. sort of.

Essentially the Middle East overtook the Mediterranean as the target of choice for rampaging steppe peoples, which meant that Europe was shielded from any serious steppe invasion for a very long time. With the possible exception of the Magyar, which benefited rather than harmed Europe.

In other news.

Ok, I gotta ask... are these people all from the same family? Or did someone just give that piece of paper to random afghans? Because its same writing on all those pictures.

 

[Snkfanatic]

Love this

 

[jmdajr]

A large amount of friends on Facebook. No blatantly displayed ignorance. The company you keep as they say.

Racism is prevalent but not within every self selecting group.

Oh what Saints. I like all these little jabs.

 

[MThanded]

I like all these little jabs. Keep at it.

That wasn't meant to be a jab. I think I may have used the phrase wrong. I intended hat to mean different areas and sets of people have various levels of intolerance.

Most of my friends on Facebook are minorities themselves and college educated now in med school, grad school or law school.Not saying there are closet bigots but being minorities in a world where there aren't many means you experience prejudice.

 

[Hermii]

Thats pretty powerful coming from Iraq where they have stuff like this only much worse happening every week. If I lived there I probably woudnt care about some bombing in America.

 

[jmdajr]

That wasn't meant to be a jab. I think I may have used the phrase wrong. I intended hat to mean different areas and sets of people have various levels of intolerance.

I shouldn't even have posted anything. Now people act like I belong to the KKK or something.

That's just the vibe I'm getting.

 

[WrenchNinja]

A class buddy of mine from school is Muslim. He's a decent egg as far as I can tell, we can talk about math and chemistry homework and joke about school stuff.

But politics? 9/11 WAS STAGED BY THE US, IT'S AN ATTEMPT TO WIPE OUT ISLAM, BUSH LIED, I HAVE SOME SITES THAT WILL PROVE IT, COME ON MAN.

This is not unique to anyone or anywhere in the world.

Oh man, I have a friend that is exactly like this. Dude is a huge 9/11 conspiracy nut.

 

[Hermii]

Ok, I gotta ask... are these people all from the same family? Or did someone just give that piece of paper to random afghans? Because its same writing on all those pictures.

Now that you say it. That does look photoshopped.

 

[marrec]

Ok, I gotta ask... are these people all from the same family? Or did someone just give that piece of paper to random afghans? Because its same writing on all those pictures.

Now that you say it. That does look photoshopped.

They do have Xerox machines in Kabul.

 

[B!TCH]

They shouldn't have to say that. The fact that some people seem to think that they do pisses me off immensely.

 

[Alebrije]

They shouldn't have to say that. The fact that some people seem to think that they do pisses me off immensely.

True, why they have to do it? I do not see people from other religion doing it

 

[Hermii]

True, why they have to do it? I do not see people from other religion doing it

Maybe they seen some of those twitter posts calling for murdering them all.

Not that its going to change any of those peoples minds.

 

[OttomanScribe]

True, why they have to do it? I do not see people from other religion doing it

Fear. Amongst other things.

I was walking around the city the day it happened and there were big screens showing video from it. I felt deeply uncomfortable in my skull cap. Same thing is for every Muslim who can be visibly identified as such. It is unpleasant, so people respond by trying to deflect it, pointlessly usually.

I also wouldn't underestimate the genuine empathy people have, regardless. I mean if anyone can empathise with such terrors it is people in Afghanistan, that is every day stuff there, they know how bad it is. I don't think people are always cauterised by tribalism. My wife was crying in the car when she heard the mother of one of the dead speak. A death is a death.

 

[Mully]

True, why they have to do it? I do not see people from other religion doing it

They're probably not doing it, some photographer just probably wrote the signs and said "Here hold this."

Either way, they don't have to do this, but people need to understand Islam is no different than any other religion.

 

[forgeforsaken]

Colbert nailed it last night.

"All they can ever do is show just how good those people are"

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425527/april-16-2013/intro---4-16-13

 

[Broder Salsa]

Are we just posting pics of anyone with a backpack now? Feel a bit bad for all those people getting their faces everywhere on the internet for being "suspicious" according to reddit.

 

[Jackpot]

If you can read Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese, go read any major forum of those languages. Go back to any major tragedy involving a foreign nation and you'll find many, many, many people who are quite happy to post their racist/nationalist things.

You think there weren't Chinese who were happy when Japan got hit by the Tsunami? That there weren't people in the Middle East happy whenever the US gets yet another black eye? That there aren't groups of people hating other groups just because they've always hated them?

Hatred and racism are worldwide, and sometimes you can find someone suddenly revealing that side of themselves with a single smug comment, especially if you're like me and use facebook as a tool to mainly to keep in touch with classmates.

A public forum is quite different from facebook.

 

[strobogo]

Otto posted that thing a few pages back that was such a bummer that well known Muslims have to come out and basically apologize ahead of time just in case some cray cray Islamist is responsible. It's sad that that guy is in the position where he feels he has to per-emptively apologize on behalf of Muslims before even a single suspect has been named.

 

[JaseMath]

This imgur album has so much crowdsourced CSI, it's exhausting. Pretty cool nonetheless; intriguing stuff.

 

[Dead Man]

A radio dickhead in Australia is saying it is a left wing radical student who did it, because reasons. :/

 

[Maninthemirror]

This imgur album has so much crowdsourced CSI, it's exhausting. Pretty cool nonetheless; intriguing stuff.

Wow first picture guy is circled as he is alone and brown

Wtf!!!

 

[freenudemacusers]

Sounds like the safest thing is to rock a murse from now on. Don't want to make it on the internet watch list.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Nm

 

[Ikael]

The US Spanish embassy doubts that it is an Islamic terrorist strike, since they haven't been requested by the US to hand out intel regarding that matter as it happened on previous strikes such as the Fort Hood incident. Still, the newspaper states that it is "too early to make any conclussive judgement". Hmmmm.

 

[equap]

This imgur album has so much crowdsourced CSI, it's exhausting. Pretty cool nonetheless; intriguing stuff.

so much horse shit on one page, it's overwhelming.

 

[jmdajr]

This imgur album has so much crowdsourced CSI, it's exhausting. Pretty cool nonetheless; intriguing stuff.

That's crazy. I wonder how much evidence the FBI is going through. I don't see how you can't get caught in this media age.
Granted armchair detectives are just jumping to conclusions.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Sounds like the safest thing is to rock a murse from now on. Don't want to make it on the internet watch list.

Also, don't be a brown guy or an unkempt white guy. Quite frankly, I think Reddit CSI Agents are looking for people who fit their preferred racial profile, and working backward to create evidence that makes it seem like that guy could plausibly be a suspect.

 

[Alebrije]

Nm

The most weird in that photo is what is doing Chicharito in Boston Marathon

 

[Fireblend]

Some of you guys have some really high tolerance to the kind of people you allow on your facebook accounts. I've removed family members for far more "relaxed" stances.

 

[RustyNails]

Yeah that Kabul pic looks fake, but the Iraq pic is authentic.

 

[JaseMath]

That's crazy. I wonder how much evidence the FBI is going through. I don't see how you can't get caught in this media age.
Granted armchair detectives are just jumping to conclusions.

Yeah a lot of it's probably bullshit, knee-jerk stuff, but eventually one of these photos is going to turn up a clue.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Some of you guys have some really high tolerance to the kind of people you allow on your facebook accounts.

The last election helped me cull out the nutty ones.

 

[marrec]

Also, don't be a brown guy or an unkempt white guy. Quite frankly, I think Reddit CSI Agents are looking for people who fit their preferred racial profile, and working backward to create evidence that makes it seem like that guy could plausibly be a suspect.

Suspect profile has been built:

1) Brown

2) Hoodie

3) ...a backpack I guess...

We'll catch this guy yet!

Yeah a lot of it's probably bullshit, knee-jerk stuff, but eventually one of these photos is going to turn up a clue.

Until that happens, lets keep shaming random people on the internet! *goes to circle a scruffy looking brown guy with a backpack*

 

[freenudemacusers]

lol sagging backpacks = bomb

wtf is this shit

 

[Kinky John]

Also, don't be a brown guy or an unkempt white guy.

If you are, make sure you're always looking in the same direction as the majority of the people around you. Oh, and smile.

 

[kylej]

This imgur album has so much crowdsourced CSI, it's exhausting. Pretty cool nonetheless; intriguing stuff.

Interesting.

 

[Petrie]

Colbert nailed it last night.

"All they can ever do is show just how good those people are"

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425527/april-16-2013/intro---4-16-13

He absolutely did.

 

[Magilla]

If you are, make sure you're always looking in the same direction as the majority of the people around you. Oh, and smile.

But don't smile too much or it looks like you are excited about what is going to happen!

 

[freenudemacusers]

If you are, make sure you're always looking in the same direction as the majority of the people around you. Oh, and smile.

make sure to act like you would in a movie and not terrified, confused, or paralyzed when a fucking bomb explodes without warning 10 feet away from you.

 

[DietRob]

lol sagging backpacks = bomb

wtf is this shit

Someone/People trying their damnedest to become/best an FBI agent. I feel like all these pictures were missing the Wollan characters.

 

[RustyNails]

My friend posted this post on facebook, and it hits the nail on the head about banal posters posting about other deaths around the world, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq

I am seeing two streams of messages on my Facebook and Twitter feed. One stream condemning the vile act in Boston, and the other asking, what about other places ? Now I get what you are saying, but for those in the *latter category*, did your conscience just wake up after seeing the media coverage for Boston ? Honestly go through your facebook updates for the past 12 months or more, and see what you were posting everyday. A death is a death.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

Colbert nailed it last night.

"All they can ever do is show just how good those people are"

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425527/april-16-2013/intro---4-16-13

That was an excellent segment.

 

[Prine]

No. The Arabs recieved the numerals from the Indians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numerals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system

We call them Arabic because they were the ones that we got them from.

You seem to be correct about 0 though. Seems the documentary I saw was wrong about that.

Arabs invented the decimal point too . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

 

[DietRob]

That was an excellent segment.

"They had to buckle their god damn hats on"

 

[Alebrije]

Arabs invented the decimal point which opened a new world of efficient calculation. They added 0.

The cero 0 number comes from the Mayas.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Arabs invented the decimal point too . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

Wiki says China. Your article says that guy helped introduced it to the West, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal#History_of_decimal_fractions

According to Joseph Needham, decimal fractions were first developed and used by the Chinese in the 1st century BC, and then spread to the Middle East and from there to Europe.[16] The written Chinese decimal fractions were non-positional.[16] However, counting rod fractions were positional.

 

[Prine]

Ok nice, i know it was partly responsible for Algebra which Al-Kwarzmi introduced. Interesting piece here on scientific revival and generous funding in in islamic countries http://www.economist.com/news/inter...on-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road

The cero 0 number comes from the Mayas.

Which is relative to their numeric system. Im solely focusing on the numeric system we use.

 

[LyleLanley]

So I take it 4Chan/Reddit is going to eventually circle everyone in every picture so that once the bomber is found they'll be able to claim that they were the ones to figure it out.

 

[finalboss2]

Arabs invented the decimal point too . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

I would love to see what happens to you when you go up to a Persian and call him Arab. Its like mistaking a Brit for a Frenchman, except even more intense.

 

[onadesertedisland]

The guy sans backpack is interesting. He has the bag close to the detonation area, then later no bag.