July 28, 2005
Let's Take a Quiz (by Guest Blogger Ari)
This is from an email a friend just sent me:
Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history.
Do you remember?
1. In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women
problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
Posted by Ari at July 28, 2005 01:17 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
Oh, snap! I remember reading that before, like a few years ago. I think it was written before the attacks in Spain, London, and Egypt, and the takeovers of a theater in Moscow and a school in Beslan. Of course, those were done by Jesuit priests, a canasta-players' convention, Salvadoran kelp fishermen and Angela Lansbury respectively, so the pattern wouldn't have held up.
Posted by: Yaron at July 28, 2005 01:46 PMBus Bunny.
Posted by: ken at July 28, 2005 01:51 PMEr, that should say BUGS Bunny. Although Bus Bomby the splodey rabbit might make a good cartoon.
Posted by: ken at July 28, 2005 02:02 PMAlthough Bus Bomby the splodey rabbit might make a good cartoon.
Might? I thought they already had Bus Bomby in the Saturday cartoon block on Al-Jazera.
Posted by: kbiel at July 28, 2005 02:07 PMNo offense, but this is the dumbest thing I have ever read.
Who killed JFK, MLK, bombed the '96 Olympics, bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City, set off an inferno in Waco, Texas, murdered congressman Leo ryan and then persuaded 900 people to kill themselves, started WW II and invented concentration camps, put up the Berlin Wall and crushed their own people with an iron fist, murdered james byrd, killed people and then ate them out of his freezer, killed lisa steinberg, killed gavin cato, yusef hawkins...the answer, of course, is white men aged 17-40.
Posted by: Dawn Summers at July 28, 2005 02:38 PMDawn, I think you're getting race mixed up with religion. And I don't know about the Kennedy killing, but there is a definite thread linking the killings in Ari's quiz... whereas yours is just a bunch of different white guys killing a bunch of different people for a bunch of different reasons.
And to answer your question... Bus Bomby!!
Posted by: ken at July 28, 2005 03:43 PMWell, I'm pretty sure Hitler and Stalin were older than 40 when they started doing the above-mentioned things. And Janet Reno's a woman (what are you trying to insinuate!)
Posted by: Yaron at July 28, 2005 04:08 PMHey Dawn... Ahem, who killed RFK? Any idea?
Posted by: Ari at July 28, 2005 04:13 PMI'm sorry, but "Bus Bomby" is by FAR the funniest thing I've heard all day.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Joe CuttheShit at July 28, 2005 04:51 PMC'mon, Dawn! I'll give you a sirhan, er, hand.
Besides, your pattern doesn't work--Waco was the responsibility of a white woman in her 50's, who also happened to be the Attorney-General.
Remember?
Yaron:
I've never hear of Salvadoran kelp fishermen. How do you fish for kelp? It's a seaweed.
Posted by: Michael at July 28, 2005 06:48 PMIndeed, I do tip my hat to Bus Bomby. I think Ken has found his mascot.
Ari, I know who killed RFK, but to lump him together with the 9/11 bombers or the Munich assassins because he was an able bodied muslim is as meaningful as saying hitler and timothy mcveigh were both male christians -- so aha!
Posted by: Dawn Summers at July 28, 2005 07:36 PMDawn, you still didn't explain why the profile of a white woman in her 50's was included in your list...
The quiz establishes a pattern of atrocities committed by extremist muslims, whereas your list consists of various atrocities committed for different reasons and inspired by different ideologies.
I don't know what your point was. At least the quiz was arguing for racial profiling and actually made a point. I guess you were mixing up race with religion like ken said. Or maybe you were trying to show how white males have wronged the world. But to put things in perspective, perhaps you should compile a list of people (scientists, inventors, capitalists, political figures, etc.) who made significant contributions to humanity and civilization over the past few centuries, you'll find that most of them are white males ages 17-40!!
Posted by: canuck at July 28, 2005 11:31 PMDawn, Hitler was not a Christian.
He was actually against Christianity.
a vegetarian, too.
Posted by: Aaron at July 29, 2005 04:11 AMWe're trying to protect ourselves from mass murder, by urging that scarce resources of surveillance be used as efficiently as possible. Dawn is just getting in the way of that.
Posted by: Arafel at July 29, 2005 04:13 AMOkay, this is totally off topic at this point, but Hitler was not a vegetarian! One of my pet peeves, since I'm a vegetarian. Thanks, that's all.
Posted by: Yaron at July 29, 2005 09:22 AMAs for kelp fishermen, I don't know what exactly they do, but the phrase does seem to exist. It's one of those phrases I remember from somewhere. Um, what were we talking about again?
Posted by: Yaron at July 29, 2005 09:29 AMYaron - you're hysterical :)
Posted by: Ari at July 29, 2005 12:09 PMLOL Dawn was shown to be an idiot.....I have tired of her type.....America is less safe due to such lame brained fools.
Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2005 12:02 PMRacial profiling......I think it's the best thing we can do. We are not doing it enough.
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