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We had laws pre 9/11 that would have prevented the tragedy. 9/11 was a failure of governmental enforcement and action, not a lack of laws.
This, more or less. Tightening immigration laws would not have prevented 9/11. Note: I also feel the same about gun control. Enforce (and give law enforcement the /ability/ to enforce) current laws, don't tack on things that will not solve anything.
I have Muslim friends, most of them made after 911, because the churches partnered with the local Mosque to go shopping with perfectly lovely Muslim families because evil, nasty people were screaming at them at Walmart and the grocery store. I know Muslim families by their words and actions too, and I'm proud to call them my friends.
Sounds like a very nice act on your part.
I could see someone who lost a loved one in the 9/11 attack going off on a muslim, but if one is peaceful one cannot attack another.
please tell me how we could have avoided this tragedy. There was no record of any criminal activity on these 2 brothers. Please give me a clue of how you would have stopped what happened (other than religious profiling them, cause race does not matter, they look pretty white)
But Islam is not forceful enough in condemning acts of terror and violence taken in its name. That is a conversation that needs to take place for people to take them seriously when they claim to be a religion of peace. It doesn't help that the brand most exported by our "dear friends" the Saudis is Wahabbi brand, either.
Agreed. Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course. But Muslim, and particularly Arabic Muslim, culture (bearing in mind these two are Caucasians, not Arabs), does have strong "heroic/mythic" warrior traditions, which endorse these kinds of acts even while mainstream, mostly elite, Muslims renounce them.
Law enforcement should be VERY EMBARRASSED that they 'allowed' this 19 year-old suspect to get away. There were hundreds of LE within mere feet of just one suspect and he got out of the SUV and got away. Amazingly stupid stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are *rumors* that the younger brother ran over the older one with the SUV. So, he may have gotten away by doing something like that, something completely unexpected. Do we know that he got away on foot or in the SUV? For so much on-air news, there are so few details!!
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Can't be!
