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ChinaOwnsEverything.. A couple of years ago (2003 maybe?) the AIAA ( American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) did a design competition for a low cost alternative to the F-22 with equivalent stealth to an F-117. It was an undergraduate level competition... I had a friend who completed...

To quote from an inflammatory article... In a Virtual Internment Camp: Muslim Americans since 9/11 Which, suggests no structural bias, rather, "Hey here is a bunch of money, go find terrorists.. What do terrorist looks like? I don't know, but all of the 9/11 hijackers were brown guys from...

Maybe, just maybe, those south Asian and middle easterners who were deported for immigration violations would agree with me, otherwise, why would they be so desperate as to commit a crime to try to stay in the US? I see no Muslims fleeing the country in mass....

The only way to never leave a building again is to die there...Hyperbole much? What was happening was a justified application of currently existing immigration laws to try to close loopholes that allowed for people to overstay their student/work visas. Pre 9/11, that was a very easy thing to do...

I have posted this elsewhere, but in support of my comments above: http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf Basically, a larger percentage of Muslims think the US is headed in the overall right direction than US citizens on the whole. That is a very meaningful statistic. US...

I agree that it is a political problem, and I also agree that the end result is an excess of scrutiny on certain parts of the Muslim population in the US. You seem to think that it is structural, as in, some senator/senior technocrat/executive appointee sat down and said: " You know who is not...

I get what you are saying, but much of the scrutiny the US Muslim population is feeling is a result of the massive explosion in the size of domestic intelligence agencies, and their accompanying budget, in the wake of 9/11. Bureaucrats need a reason to exist, and if one does not exist (IE...

Froth at the mouth? I don't know, but anti-terrorism is a money pit, so certain types of governmental agents sure do like to bring Islam and Muslims up.

No, but your (*Insert Sexual Partner Here*) might have mentioned it to me...In passing.... :cheers:

Gambit, I think on the point of the meaning of the mosque, we are going to have to agree to disagree for the moment. You seem to think that many of things Islam extols lead directly to violence, I think otherwise. We could cherry pick quotes from the Bible, Koran, or Bhagavad Gita until the sun...

Right, but here is the point, Japanese Navy hardware was designed to kill people....Islam as a religion is not. If you believe otherwise, then you are prejudiced or misinformed. Should I not drive my car past locations where people died because a drunk driver got behind the wheel? As...

Not really, riots happen for many reasons, sometimes no reason at all that can be told, and are usually a reaction to current events or environment. They are a function of population density and class stratification. Terrorism is premeditated violence to instill fear, which in turn brings about...

And on a final note, there are both Japanese and US war dead memorials on top of Mt. Suribachi, an island administered by Japan...

I went to university with Muslim enrollment in the hundreds, and never heard any of them complain about serious discrimination. I only had 3-4 close personal friends who were Muslims however, so maybe my sample size was too small... As for illegal deportation, last time I checked, unless you...

I am not a US security apparatchik in any sense, just an aerospace engineer who has seen some military culture. I design and analyze "stuff" and have never held any security clearance. I have never touched classified information. I don't know how the internal security apparatus functions at all...

Yep, and a mosque is not a shrine to Taliban war dead either.. . Again, not a shrine....Or anything similar. And US Muslims have failed to prove their loyalty? Two nut jobs get to represent the 2.5 Islamic people in the US? Have you never met a upstanding Muslim in uniform who did their job...

I know this is a low blow, but... From wikipedia: "Christians, along with other non-Muslim minorities, are discriminated against in the Constitution of Pakistan. Non-Muslims are barred from becoming the President[8] or Prime Minister [9]. Furthermore, they are barred from being judges in the...

Without a ground view, I think you overstate the seriousness of the situation. The US is not going to bring back internment camps anytime soon. I know that is not what you are implying directly, but you seem to be implying obliquely that US Muslims can expect to face serous discrimination of a...

What makes you say that a dirty bomb is outside of A-Q's technical capacity? They can make explosively formed penetrators can't they? What is to stop them from breaking into a medical manufacturing plant, stealing some cobalt used for radiative sterilization, and sticking it in with a couple...

And yet there are plenty of Japanese groups of tourists at the Arizona memorial, and plenty of US tourists at the Hiroshima peace park. I have been to both and seen it. There are plenty of Japanese/Asian American community centers spread about Hawaii as well.... Although, no such luck in...