> So far, Middle Eastern immigrants have shown little interest in assimilating at all.
Do you realize that there are indigenous christians of all denominations in the ME or there's some kind of dominance hierarchy among denominations and churches of the world that I am not aware of?
No you are not irrational at all. Keep an eye on him and better if you tip him off to the authorities so he lands on some watch list. Not shaking hands with females is a sign that he's become DEEPLY fundamental and it only would take him just a few steps up the Islamic ladder to reach the Jihadi level and starts viewing the world into two dominions; Land of Islam "دار الاسلام "and Land of Infidel "دار الكفر"
> The transparency report I'd love to see, which I doubt will ever be released, is the number of stings which end up being LEOs on both sides, in which e.g. one handler is hoping to sting a weapons dealer and the other is hoping to sting a weapons buyer.
That would be a great Pink Panther sketch/scene :)
The pre-9/11 CIA/FBI power play detailed in your comment was portrayed to some degree in the 1998 movie "The Siege" by Denzel Washington. Any chance you've seen it before?
> People keep spreading stories about a secret government conspiracy to know everything and use that power for shady means, and in an uncertain world, that's kind of comforting.
Unfortunately, it is not comforting at all because we are not talking about one coherent group holding all the strings behind the scenes. No, there are many cabals fighting in the "shadow" government for domination and power and since they're above the law in theory and practice, it's really a scary scenario for all of us.
> the defeat of our freedom and the victory of terrorists
I think by terrorists here, you mean the oligarchs within the regime who are either complicit by standing down or plotting outright against the citizenry or completely incompetent by not catching criminals before they wreck havoc, and not those scruffy bearded nutjobs in the desert?
You forgot to include the recent intervention in Mali by French troops. This incident definitely upset the Al Qaeda in the Maghreb people and this terrorist attack was probably a retaliatory attack for the intervention.
Egyptian here, actually Qutb risked his life and lost it for his "cause" and there's a lot of controversy surrounding this issue and it's a recurrent hot topic in political discussions here that his unlawful detention by the military authorities and the subsequent execution might have resulted in his radicalization and him espousing more extremist views of jihadism and political violence to effect social change in the nation because he was very aware of the fact at the time that he would be executed at any point so he had maybe a "fuck it" moment and decided to screw the world he would depart involuntarily by leaving his vile and despicable writing behind as a vendetta
Do you realize that there are indigenous christians of all denominations in the ME or there's some kind of dominance hierarchy among denominations and churches of the world that I am not aware of?