JakeStarkey
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Many Americans, including most reactionaries, are very dull on geography. Most know their backyards but not much else.
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Just like most people in the world wouldn't be able to point out Alabama on a US map.![]()
Americans are not asked to know all counties of every country. But to mistaken a Central European STATE for one of Russia's PROVINCES; especially after decades of US media pumping US public with "Chechen freedom fighters are fighting oppressive Russian rule" -- is an achievement of stupidity even on American scale!
You have a point, I must admit.
Quite often on this board I am amazed to find posters calling Turks 'Arabs', confusing Norway with Finland, even referring to New Zealand as European (and not in a cultural sense). I do think most people should have heard of the Czech Republic - even if only for their hockey players!
Americans are not asked to know all counties of every country. But to mistaken a Central European STATE for one of Russia's PROVINCES; especially after decades of US media pumping US public with "Chechen freedom fighters are fighting oppressive Russian rule" -- is an achievement of stupidity even on American scale!
You have a point, I must admit.
Quite often on this board I am amazed to find posters calling Turks 'Arabs', confusing Norway with Finland, even referring to New Zealand as European (and not in a cultural sense). I do think most people should have heard of the Czech Republic - even if only for their hockey players!
That's because many turks are "arabs".
"
Arab people, also known as Arabs (Arabic: عرب*, ʿarab), are a panethnicity[14] primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds,[15] with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing an important part of Arab identity.[16]
The word "Arab" has had several different, but overlapping, meanings over the centuries (and sometimes even today). In addition to including all Arabized people of the world (with language tending to be the acid test), it has also at times been used exclusively for bedouin (Arab nomads [although a related word, "`a-RAB," with the Arabic letter "alif" in the second syllable, once was sometimes used when this specific meaning was intended] and their now almost entirely settled descendants). It is sometimes used that way colloquially even today in some places. Townspeople once were sometimes called "sons of the Arabs." As in the case of other ethnicities or nations, people identify themselves (or are identified by others) as "Arabs" to varying degrees. This may not be one's primary identity (it tends to compete with country, religion, sect, etc.), and whether it is emphasized may depend upon one's audience.
If the diverse Arab pan-ethnicity is regarded as a single ethnic group, then it constitutes one of the world's largest after Han Chinese."
It has nothing to do with today's geography and boundaries, which most of the arab people don't RECOGNIZE and were inflicted upon them when the Ottoman Empire was divided up.
Arab people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CaféAuLait;7120458 said:I don't get this whole argument about white, black, pink, yellow, or purple. They are caucasian, and to have Al Qaeda in Chechnya is common for some time.
In Pictures: Al Qaeda in the Caucasus
Chechnya served as one of the first battlegrounds outside of Afghanistan for al Qaeda in the early 1990s. Al Qaeda sent thousands of foreign fighters to Chechnya to fight alongside the domestic Chechen resistance to the Russians during the First and Second Chechen Wars. Al Qaeda also funneled large amounts of money to the fight in Chechnya and used the theater as a training ground and well as propaganda and recruiting tool. The Chechen leadership became increasingly radicalized and the jihad expanded to the greater Caucasus. In the fall of 2007, Doku Umarov, the new leader of the Chechen jihadis, declared the Islamic Caucasus Emirate and impose sharia law.
Read more: In Pictures: Al Qaeda in the Caucasus - The Long War Journal
Long War Journal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A history of terrorism out of Chechnya
Some have proved vulnerable to recruitment by militants, such as 25-year-old Lors Doukayev, who in 2010 attempted to bomb the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it published cartoon-like images of the prophet Muhammad.
Chechen immigrants have been arrested as recently as a month ago in France, and others have been prosecuted in Spain and Austria, accused of committing violence and plotting against foreign targets.
A history of terrorism out of Chechnya - latimes.com
Many Americans, including most reactionaries, are very dull on geography. Most know their backyards but not much else.
CaféAuLait;7120458 said:I don't get this whole argument about white, black, pink, yellow, or purple. They are caucasian, and to have Al Qaeda in Chechnya is common for some time.
In Pictures: Al Qaeda in the Caucasus
Chechnya served as one of the first battlegrounds outside of Afghanistan for al Qaeda in the early 1990s. Al Qaeda sent thousands of foreign fighters to Chechnya to fight alongside the domestic Chechen resistance to the Russians during the First and Second Chechen Wars. Al Qaeda also funneled large amounts of money to the fight in Chechnya and used the theater as a training ground and well as propaganda and recruiting tool. The Chechen leadership became increasingly radicalized and the jihad expanded to the greater Caucasus. In the fall of 2007, Doku Umarov, the new leader of the Chechen jihadis, declared the Islamic Caucasus Emirate and impose sharia law.
Read more: In Pictures: Al Qaeda in the Caucasus - The Long War Journal
Long War Journal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A history of terrorism out of Chechnya
Some have proved vulnerable to recruitment by militants, such as 25-year-old Lors Doukayev, who in 2010 attempted to bomb the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it published cartoon-like images of the prophet Muhammad.
Chechen immigrants have been arrested as recently as a month ago in France, and others have been prosecuted in Spain and Austria, accused of committing violence and plotting against foreign targets.
A history of terrorism out of Chechnya - latimes.com
Truly you have to understand the beast. This is a whole different ball game when it comes to them.
Many Americans, including most reactionaries, are very dull on geography. Most know their backyards but not much else.
No shit.when I have L'olLady telling moi that Canucks have to build a pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico so we can ship oil to China
I dont blame most people because I just loved geography as a kid so I don't expect much from others, but that one smoked me.![]()
Many Americans, including most reactionaries, are very dull on geography. Most know their backyards but not much else.
No shit.when I have L'olLady telling moi that Canucks have to build a pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico so we can ship oil to China
I dont blame most people because I just loved geography as a kid so I don't expect much from others, but that one smoked me.![]()
I was 11 or 12, could not tell where Austria or Australia were on a map in class, and told myself that would never happen again. Maps R My Fr'ends ever since.
Many Americans, including most reactionaries, are very dull on geography. Most know their backyards but not much else.
The first order of business should be to find out whether or not this Chechen attack means that Chechnya intend to open an American front for their islamic fighters. If so, immediately stop all entries by Chechens and secure the borders. No students no touristd. No visitors.
The only one certainty that I can advise is not to believe anything from mainstream sources .
Turks are not Arabs. Neither are Iranians.Americans are not asked to know all counties of every country. But to mistaken a Central European STATE for one of Russia's PROVINCES; especially after decades of US media pumping US public with "Chechen freedom fighters are fighting oppressive Russian rule" -- is an achievement of stupidity even on American scale!
You have a point, I must admit.
Quite often on this board I am amazed to find posters calling Turks 'Arabs', confusing Norway with Finland, even referring to New Zealand as European (and not in a cultural sense). I do think most people should have heard of the Czech Republic - even if only for their hockey players!
That's because many turks are "arabs".
"
Arab people, also known as Arabs (Arabic: عرب*, ʿarab), are a panethnicity[14] primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds,[15] with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing an important part of Arab identity.[16]
The word "Arab" has had several different, but overlapping, meanings over the centuries (and sometimes even today). In addition to including all Arabized people of the world (with language tending to be the acid test), it has also at times been used exclusively for bedouin (Arab nomads [although a related word, "`a-RAB," with the Arabic letter "alif" in the second syllable, once was sometimes used when this specific meaning was intended] and their now almost entirely settled descendants). It is sometimes used that way colloquially even today in some places. Townspeople once were sometimes called "sons of the Arabs." As in the case of other ethnicities or nations, people identify themselves (or are identified by others) as "Arabs" to varying degrees. This may not be one's primary identity (it tends to compete with country, religion, sect, etc.), and whether it is emphasized may depend upon one's audience.
If the diverse Arab pan-ethnicity is regarded as a single ethnic group, then it constitutes one of the world's largest after Han Chinese."
It has nothing to do with today's geography and boundaries, which most of the arab people don't RECOGNIZE and were inflicted upon them when the Ottoman Empire was divided up.
Arab people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's because many turks are "arabs".
The first order of business should be to find out whether or not this Chechen attack means that Chechnya intend to open an American front for their islamic fighters. If so, immediately stop all entries by Chechens and secure the borders. No students no touristd. No visitors.
Americans in all their intellectual glory!!!!! LOL!!!
Mistakes on social media make Czech ambassador state: Czech Republic is not Chechnya | Fox News
" number of comments by Americans on social media mistaking the Czech Republic for the country of origin of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects ethnic Chechen brothers prompted the Czech ambassador to the United States to act. In a statement posted on the embassy Web site, Petr Gandalovic said "the Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation."
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