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2 ‘Heroes’ Stabbed To Death Standing Up To Muslim Hate In Portland

Two men are being hailed as heroes after they were killed while trying to stop a man from abusing two young women on a train in Portland, Oregon, because they appeared to be Muslim.

Witnesses said at least one of the women the suspect targeted was wearing a hijab, and it appeared the abuse was religiously and racially motivated. “He said, ‘Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don’t pay taxes here,’” Evelin Hernandez, a passenger on the train, told KATU-TV.

Of this guy is a nut, just as wack as the muslims engaging in terrorism all over the world.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

I simply find his resorting to physical force (even in the circumstances you've described) as objectionable. I'm sure there was another way to deal with the problem.

I don't think the reporter will be considered to have trespassed, but we'll see.

The US is far and away the world's leader in terrorism around the world.

georgeob1 wrote:

There's very little that is new or original beyond the specific details in the divide of attitudes you encountered during your London visit. They are a common element of human behavior during unsettled times, and history is replete with it.

The extended rivalries of Guelfs and Ghibellines in the 13th and 14th centuries in Northern Italy ( regarding the political rivalries of Popes and Emperors) ; the whites and reds in the Wars of the Roses in 15th century England (involving the political rivalries of the contending houses of York and Lancaster) come immediately to mind. The same thing could be observed during the extended clashes among the Triumvirs (Caesar, Pompey & Crassus) in the transition of Rome from Republic to Empire.

Analogous lasting divides occurred in the United States over slavery during and after the Civil War; in Russia following the 1917 Revolution; in France after the revolution and in the 19th century Habsburg Empire. Each divided communities and even families along the contending political lines. In each he various protagonists exhibited strong emotions that seem odd to detached observers, and the struggles all involved all the same prejudgment of the motives of the opposition and projected conspiracy theories that we see so evident in Blatham's fatuous and tedious theorizing about "movement conservatism" in the United States. The only remarkable feature of it is that he somehow appears to think it original and insightful on his part . In fact it is simply the stuff of human conflict over shared issues.

Of course you're right that it's been a constant aspect of human nature over thousands of years, but it seems worse than any other time in my life and I find it depressing. It's not comforting to realize that its most intense periods usually ended in armed conflicts.

I don't think the reporter will be considered to have trespassed...

and looking pretty competitive for 2018.

I'll NEVER believe they can't see the piece of crap this administration is.

I haven't got to that story yet this morning but so long as he doesn't have a private email server, what the hell.

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and looking pretty competitive for 2018.

I hope you are right but I was sure Trump dident have a chance with all his lying bull but he won anyway. I am beginning to believe that instead making citizens prove citizenship they should prove they have an IQ of at least 75.

I am beginning to believe that instead making citizens prove citizenship they should prove they have an IQ of at least 75.

I wonder if we'll ever see a muslim "interecede" (by ratting out a terrorist from his local mosque, for example) on behalf of a non-muslim, eh? To my knowledge, it's never happened yet

Counter Terrorism agencies were facing questions after it emerged Salman Abedi told friends that “being a suicide bomber was okay”, prompting them to call the Government’s anti-terrorism hotline.

Sources suggest that authorities were informed of the danger posed by Abedi on at least five separate occasions in the five years prior to the attack on Monday night. [..]

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said: “People in the community expressed concerns about the way this man was behaving and reported it in the right way using the right channels.

“They did not hear anything since.”

Two friends of Abedi also became so worried they separately telephoned the police counter-terrorism hotline five years ago and again last year.

“They had been worried that ‘he was supporting terrorism’ and had expressed the view that ‘being a suicide bomber was ok’,” a source told the BBC.

Akram Ramadan, 49, part of the close-knit Libyan community in south Manchester, said Abedi had been banned from Didsbury Mosque after he had confronted the Imam who was delivering an anti-extremist sermon.

Mr Ramadan said he understood that Abedi had been placed on a “watch list” because the mosque reported him to the authorities for his extremist views.

A well-placed source at Didsbury Mosque confirmed it had contacted the Home Office’s Prevent anti-radicalisation programme as a result.

A US official also briefed that members of Abedi’s own family had contacted British police saying that he was “dangerous”, but again the information does not appear to have been acted upon.