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Europe is imposing sanctions against Russia. Can't do much else without starting world war 3.

What sort of religion keeps a machete in a house of worship?

Cultural enrichment in Philadelphia as mosque leaders try to cut off a man's hand (Reuters) - Two men described as leaders of a Philadelphia mosque were accused of trying to cut off the hand of a suspected thief, whose wrist was sliced so deeply it required hospital treatment, police said on Friday. The 46-year-old victim said two officials in the mosque accused him of stealing jars of money from the house of worship after morning prayers on Monday. The officials, described in police reports as the mosque's imam and amir, dragged the victim to the rear of the mosque, and attempted to chop off his hand with a machete, according to a police statement.

Most Pakistani restaurants in England don't sell alcoholic drinks but they let you bring in your own and don't charge corkage.

Muslim worker refuses to sell ham and wine to customer in Tesco in Neasden A supermarket giant has issued an apology after a Muslim worker refused to serve a customer buying ham and wine saying he was fasting for Ramadan. Julie Cottle, has lodged a complaint with Tesco after the employee at the manned till inside the Express branch in Neasden Lane, insisted she use the self-service checkout. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims, who are strictly forbidden from consuming alcohol and pork at all times, fast between dawn and sunset. Mrs Cottle told the Times: “He pointed at the ham and wine in my basket and said ‘I can’t serve you that because I’m fasting’. “When I told him he should be serving customers not turning them away he still refused telling me to go to the self-service. “I was furious.†When Mrs Cottle, a mother-of-three, complained to the manager she said he backed the worker. “He insisted I use the self-checkout but said he would pass on my complaint,†she said. “I’m disgusted. If he is refusing to do his job he shouldn’t be there.†Mrs Cottle said after calling customer services when she got home she was told the worker could face disciplinary action. She added: “I hope he does. If he can’t serve food he shouldn’t be working in a supermarket.†A spokesman for Tesco said: “We’re here to serve our customers the products they choose to buy. We don’t have a specific policy and take a pragmatic approach if a colleague raises concerns about a job they have been asked to do. “We apologise to our customer for any inconvenience on this occasion.â€

Islam is not a race, as the religion is open to people of every ethnicity. You appear to be taking the Muslim line that in order to criticise the religion you have to be an expert in it. Whereas they dismiss all other religions and atheism without knowing anything about them.

Psychopathic people and behaviour are found within all cultures and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths. The daily mass killings, terror, persecutions and family executions committed by the followers of Islam are nauseating, and the ingenuity behind the attacks — always looking for new and more effective ways of killing and terrorising people — is astonishing: hijacking jumbo jets and flying them into skyscrapers, hunting unarmed and innocent people with grenades and automatic rifles in shopping malls, planting bombs in one’s own body, using model airplanes as drones, attaching large rotating blades to pickup trucks and using them as human lawn movers, killing family members with acid or fire, hanging people publicly from cranes in front of cheering crowds, etc. It makes one ask oneself: what creates such lack of empathy and almost playful and creative attitude towards murdering perceived enemies? This is a question for psychologists like me. Studying the Muslim mind Nobody is born a mass murderer, a rapist or a violent criminal. So what is it in the Muslim culture that influence their children in a way that make so relatively many Muslims harm other people? As a psychologist in a Danish youth prison, I had a unique chance to study the mentality of Muslims. 70 percent of youth offenders in Denmark have a Muslim background. I was able to compare them with non-Muslim clients from the same age group with more or less the same social background. I came to the conclusion that Islam and Muslim culture have certain psychological mechanisms that harm people’s development and increase criminal behaviour. I am, of course, aware that Muslims are different, and not all Muslims follow the Quran’s violent and perverted message and their prophet’s equally embarrassing example. But as with all other religions, Islam also influences its followers and the culture they live in. One could talk about two groups of psychological mechanisms, that both singly and combined increase violent behaviour. One group is mainly connected with religion, which aims at indoctrinating Islamic values in children as early as possible and with whatever means necessary, including violence and intimidation. One can understand a Muslim parent’s concern about his offspring’s religious choices, because the sharia orders the death penalty for their children, should they pick another religion than their parents. The other group of mechanisms are more cultural and psychological. These cultural psychological mechanisms are a natural consequence of being influenced by a religion like Islam and stemming from a 1,400 year old tribal society with very limited freedom to develop beyond what the religion allows. Classical brainwashing methods in the upbringing Brainwashing people into believing or doing things against their own human nature — such as hating or even killing innocents they do not even know — is traditionally done by combining two things: pain and repetition. The conscious infliction of psychological and physical suffering breaks down the person’s resistance to the constantly repeated message. Totalitarian regimes use this method to reform political dissidents. Armies in less civilized countries use it to create ruthless soldiers, and religious sects all over the world use it to fanaticize their followers. During numerous sessions with more than a hundred Muslim clients, I found that violence and repetition of religious messages are prevalent in Muslim families. Muslim culture simply does not have the same degree of understanding of human development as in civilized societies, and physical pain and threats are therefore often the preferred tool to raise children. This is why so many Muslim girls grow up to accept violence in their marriage, and why Muslim boys grow up to learn that violence is acceptable. And it is the main reason why nine out of ten children removed from their parents by authorities in Copenhagen are from immigrant families. The Muslim tradition of using pain and intimidation as part of disciplining children are also widely used in Muslim schools — also in the West. Combined with countless repetitions of Quranic verses in Islamic schools and families, all this makes it very difficult for children to defend themselves against being indoctrinated to follow the Quran, even if it is against secular laws, logic, and the most basic understanding of compassion. And as we know from so many psychological studies, whatever a child is strongly influenced by at that age takes an enormous personal effort to change later in life. It is no wonder that Muslims in general, in spite of Islam’s inhumane nature and obvious inability to equip its followers with humor, compassion and other attractive qualities, are stronger in their faith than any other religious group.

Four enabling psychological factors Not only does a traditional Islamic upbringing resemble classical brainwashing methods, but also, the culture it generates cultivates four psychological characteristics that further enable and increase violent behaviour. These four mental factors are anger, self-confidence, responsibility for oneself and intolerance. When it comes to anger, Western societies widely agree that it is a sign of weakness. Uncontrolled explosions of this unpleasant feeling are maybe the fastest way of losing face, especially in Northern countries, and though angry people may be feared, they are never respected. In Muslim culture, anger is much more accepted, and being able to intimidate people is seen as strength and source of social status. We even see ethnic Muslim groups or countries proudly declare whole days of anger, and use expressions such as “holy anger†— a term that seems contradictory in peaceful cultures. In Western societies, the ability to handle criticism constructively if it is justified, and with a shrug if it is misguided, is seen as an expression of self-confidence and authenticity. As everyone has noticed, this is not the case among Muslims. Here criticism, no matter how true, is seen as an attack on one’s honor, and it is expected that the honor is restored by using whatever means necessary to silence the opponent. Muslims almost never attempt to counter criticism with logical arguments; instead, they try to silence the criticism by pretending to be offended or by name-calling, or by threatening or even killing the messenger. The third psychological factor concerns responsibility for oneself, and here the psychological phenomenon “locus of control†plays a major role. People raised by Western standards generally have an inner locus of control, meaning that they experience their lives as governed by inner factors, such as one’s own choices, world view, ways of handling emotions and situations, etc. Muslims are raised to experience their lives as being controlled from the outside. Everything happens “insha’ Allah†— if Allah wills — and the many religious laws, traditions and powerful male authorities leave little room for individual responsibility. This is the cause for the embarrassing and world-famous Muslim victim mentality, where everybody else is blamed and to be punished for the Muslims’ own self-created situation. Finally, the fourth psychological factor making Muslims vulnerable to the violent message in the Quran concerns tolerance. While Western societies in general define a good person as being open and tolerant, Muslims are told that they are superior to non-Muslims, destined to dominate non-Muslims, and that they must distance themselves socially and emotionally from non-Muslims. The many hateful and dehumanising verses in the Quran and the Hadiths against non-Muslims closely resemble the psychological propaganda that leaders use against their own people in order to prepare them mentally for fighting and killing the enemy. Killing another person is easier if you hate him and do not perceive him as fully human. Why Islam creates monsters The cultural and psychological cocktail of anger, low self-esteem, victim mentality, a willingness to be blindly guided by outer authorities, and an aggressive and discriminatory view toward non-Muslims, forced upon Muslims through pain, intimidation and mind-numbing repetitions of the Quran’s almost countless verses promoting hate and violence against non-Muslims, is the reason why Islam creates monsters. http://www.jihadwatc...reates-monsters

In my own country, since the death penalty was abolished, 400 people have been murdered by people who have served time for killing. I don't see why your students should have to pay tax to keep murderers alive.

There is no way innocent people should have to pay for the upkeep of this vile man in prison. And death by lethal injection is too good for him.

You don't like the facts so you obfuscate them with irrelevant nonsense. FACT: Google snooped on resident's Wi-Fi networks.

"NFL players have died of heat stroke. The only risk of death in a soccer game is when some Third World peasant goes on a murderous rampage after a bad call." Coulter seems to think players dying is a good thing. What a loony.

Has that horrible woman broken Australian law?

While they were filming the houses in all the countries they visited, they were also hacking into residents Wi-Fi networks and gathering as much information on them as possible.

The right to be forgotten is limited to being forgotten by EU citizens. People outside the EU can still find information on Europeans. Those living outside the EU should quit their whining.

The court's ruling is not unreasonable, it strikes a balance between a persons right to know and another persons right to have some information forgotten. It only seems unreasonable because Google is taking down every thing requested in order to show its displeasure at the ruling. Fortunately some information is reappearing so I guess they are getting over it.

And the only "cure" for this non-existent condition is to see a psychiatrist as often as possible at $100 per hour.

European countries have rehabilitation of offenders laws which prevent past crimes from being used against a person on job interviews etc. Why should a man who stole candy as a 9 year old be prevented from getting a job when he is aged 50? The problem with search engines is that they never forget, making forgiveness impossible. Note that the European Court ruling only applies to search engines. It does not apply to news websites so there is no grounds for complaining that the Daily Mail or the BBC have been censored. The stories are still available at the original source.

A truly shocking thing to have happened to that poor girl.

The jury gave a separate verdict for each charge.

It clearly was on 1 charge.

I find this story surprising and funny. So much for the efficiency of the Nazi propaganda machine.

So the word of a mentally disturbed alcoholic recalling "memories" of when she was 7 years old, some 50 years ago was enough to get Rolf convicted.

I once saw a girl dancing in Nana Plaza who was wearing nothing but knickers (panties) and a giant sanitary pad.

I knew for years that I wanted to quit drinking but was never able to. Now I've been completely sober for almost 9 years and I'm sure if I hadn't quit I would be dead now.