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DHS confirms arrest of Afghan man in Texas after bomb threat video surfaces online

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Just one day before the Terrorist attack against our @NationalGuard, another Afghan national who was paroled into the United States under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome was arrested for threatening to blow up a building in Fort Worth.


Mohammad Dawood Alokozay
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If you cut out the Arabic, that sounds a lot like hundreds (maybe thousands?) of evangelical services I've heard.

If you add the Arabic back in, it sounds exactly like basically every charismatic service I've heard, with their faux-Arabic "speaking in tongues."

I guess you're not bothered by any of what you saw, because you seem to be in favor of more of it.

Do you also like the guy with the mock suicide vest, playing with wires protruding from it?

 
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I guess you're not bothered by any of what you saw, because you seem to be in favor of more of it.

I'm not any more bothered by it than I have been by evangelicals doing the exact same thing for the last 30+ years. Except for the hat, everything about his presentation looks and sounds like it was cribbed it from a generic megachurch.

Do you also like the guy with the mock suicide vest, playing with wires protruding from it?

Are you just throwing up anything to see if it sticks?

I find this guy as obnoxious as every other white guy at a protest cosplaying as something he's not. This guy's wearing a suicide vest. Others like to get dressed up like SpecOps Ken.
 
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I'm not any more bothered by it than I have been by evangelicals doing the exact same thing for the last 30+ years. Except for the hat, everything about his presentation looks and sounds like it was cribbed it from a generic megachurch.


Are you just throwing up anything to see if it sticks?

I find this guy as obnoxious as every other white guy at a protest cosplaying as something he's not. This guy's wearing a suicide vest. Others like to get dressed up like SpecOps Ken.

If you find something to be obnoxious, why does it bother you that I'm exposing that obnoxious behavior?

Why do you act like it's a requirement that I include bad things about Christianity when talking about Islamic things? Do I also have to include things involving Judaism and Buddhism to satisfy you?

...And why are you trying to force me to do this?
 
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If you find something to be obnoxious, why does it bother you that I'm exposing that obnoxious behavior?

Because I think you're promoting bigotry by being wildly hypocritical in your application of these standards. There was nothing wrong with that guy preaching about an Islamic revival. Christians have been doing that exact thing for decades. Why is this guy a problem.

Why do you act like it's a requirement that I include bad things about Christianity when talking about Islamic things? Do I also have to include things involving Judaism and Buddhism to satisfy you?

No, what I would like is for you to be at least a little even-handed in your judgment.

...And why are you trying to force me to do this?
I'm not forcing you to do anything. You're a big boy. You make your own choices.
 
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No, what I would like is for you to be at least a little even-handed in your judgment.

You want me to be even handed in a thread about Islamic terrorism, why?

Are we supposed to talk about every religion on earth to be even handed? Or just Christianity?
 
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I'm not forcing you to do anything. You're a big boy. You make your own choices.

No, No..!!! It's your choice, Iluvitar. You're the one who gets to decide.
 
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If you cut out the Arabic, that sounds a lot like hundreds (maybe thousands?) of evangelical services I've heard.

If you add the Arabic back in, it sounds exactly like basically every charismatic service I've heard, with their faux-Arabic "speaking in tongues."
Look! A red herring!
 
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Look! A red herring!
What are you talking about?

The video was presented as something bad and worrisome. I pointed out how it's identical to what evangelicals have been doing for decades. That's not a red herring.
 
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No, I expect you to be even-handed when judging actions.
So from now on, no thread on CF can single out any topic, without including all similar topics, as a rule. A thread about guns must include topics including knives, bow and arrow, sling shots and bombs.

Abortion topics must include the death penalty, assisted suicide, etc. Right? Because all threads must be even handed.
 
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So from now on, no thread on CF can single out any topic, without including all similar topics, as a rule. A thread about guns must include topics including knives, bow and arrow, sling shots and bombs.

Abortion topics must include the death penalty, assisted suicide, etc. Right? Because all threads must be even handed.
If that's the way you wish to spin it, so be it. I suppose other folks can see for themselves the problems with calling out a Muslim preacher for doing the exact same things that evangelical preachers do.
 
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What are you talking about?

The video was presented as something bad and worrisome. I pointed out how it's identical to what evangelicals have been doing for decades. That's not a red herring.
You are attempting to distract away from the topic with whataboutisms. That is a red herring.
 
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You are attempting to distract away from the topic with whataboutisms. That is a red herring.
Try reading the thread again, buddy. It was the OP, in post #3, who posted two links entirely unrelated to the events of post #1. I was responding to part of his post #3. If you think that subject is off-topic, take it up with him.
 
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Try reading the thread again, buddy. It was the OP, in post #3, who posted two links entirely unrelated to the events of post #1. I was responding to part of his post #3. If you think that subject is off-topic, take it up with him.
The common theme of the OP, and my posts have nothing to do with Christianity.
 
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