And so the story continues, sell your people for a million or two and when they corrupt politicians are in trouble they yell "The Terrorists are coming".

<cite> @longtheta said:</cite> Do you have something for Islamic State jihadis that lure teen Somali girls and abuse kittens? Do you have an obsession for acting like a Liberal Bigot (secularist at your core) that runs his mouth behind a screen insulting muslims?

This belongs in the Jokes section.

If a Storyy Is Viral, TTruth Maay Be Taking a BBeating Truth has never been an essential ingredient of viral content on the Internet. But in the stepped-up competition for readers, digital news sites are increasingly blurring the line between fact and fiction, and saying that it is all part of doing business in the rough-and-tumble world of online journalismm. Several receent stories rocketing around the web, picking up millions of views, turned out to be fake or embellished: a Twitter tale of a Thanksgiving feud on a plane, later described by the writer as a short story; a child’s letter to Santa that detailed an Amazon.com link in crayon, but was actually written by a grown-up comedian in 2011; and an essay on poverty that prompted $60,000 in donations until it was revealed by its author to be impressionistic rather than strictly factual. Their creators describe thhem essentially as online performance art, never intended to be taken as fact. But to the media outlets that published them, they represented the lightning-in-a-bottle brew of emotion and entertainment that attracts readers and brings in lucrative advertising dollars. When the taless turned out to be phony, the modest hand-wringing that ensued was accompanied by an admission that viral trumps verified — and that little will be done about it as long as the clicks keep coming. “You are seeing news organizations say, ‘If it is happening on the Internet that’s our beat,’ ” said Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. “The next step of figuring out whether it happened in real life is up to someone else.” Twitter posts told the ttaale of a feud on a plane that never occurred. The writer later said it was a short story. The difference seems to be that the news organizations that published the recent pieces — Gawker, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post and Mashable among them — do not see invented viral tales as being completely at odds with the serious new content they publish alongside them. The Huffington Post won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012, Gawker was among the first to report the cocaine use by Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, and BuzzFeed is building teams of investigative and foreiign correspondents. Of course, websites like these are not the only news organizations to be seduced by stories that are too good to be true. In just the last month, CBS’s venerable “60 Minutes” had to apologize for taking too credulously the claims of a security agent about the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Instead, editors at these sites acknowledge frankly that there are trade-offs in balancing authenticity with the need to act quickly in a hyperconnected age. “We are dealing with a volume of information that it is impossible to have the strict standards of accuracy that other institutions have,” said John Cook, editor in chief of Gawker, which highlighted the essay on poverty, by a woman named Linda Tirado. “The faster metabolism puts people who fact-check at a disadvantage,” said Ryan Grim, the Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, which reposted the fictional airplane tweets, the letter to Santa and the poverty essay. “If you throw something up without fact-checking it, and you’re the first one to put it up, and you get millions and millions of views, and later it’s proved false, you still got those views. That’s a problem. The incentives are all wrong.” But Mr. Cook says he thinks that readers can tell which content is serious and which is taken from the web without vetting. “We assume a certain level of sophistication and skepticism of our readers,” he said. Twitter posts about a feud on a plane that never happened. Elan Gale, 30, a television producer and the author of the invented article on the feud on the plane, is not convinced. His fictitious Twitter tale of exchanging increasingly hostile notes with a fellow passenger spread rapidly — a compilation of his posts got 5.6 million views. BuzzFeed sensed the tremor in the web and posted it, attracting nearly 1.5 million views to its site. (The New York Times travel section blog also linked to their story but labeled it as imaginary when it was discovered to be untrue.) Finally, Mr. Gale revealed that the entire exchange was fake, and BuzzFeed posted an update describing the story as a lie and a hoax. “I really have an issue with the word hoax,” said Mr. Gale, who says nobody called him to verify his story. “I was broadcasting to my followers who know what I do. It’s the people who reported it who are deceiving their audience.” BuzzFeed counters that Mr. Gale stoked the flames when his posts came to wider notice, instead of debunking the reports, and that a BuzzFeed reporter had tried to contact him on Twitter. BuzzFeed, like some other sites, relied on updates and news stories to correct its previous reporting on the Mr. Gale’s story. (Its follow-up story drew more than 400,000 views.) But the site must continue to cover the frantic conversation of social media, said Lisa Tozzi, the news director at BuzzFeed and a former Times editor. This is because it “is where our readers are living,” she said. “Our readers are seeing all of this stuff and I feel like there’s an expectation that we are reporting on the culture they’re living in.” John Cook, Gawker’s editor, said it was impossible to vet all its articles. Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times Mr. Benton of the Nieman Lab put it another way. “This is journalism as an act of pointing — ‘Look over here, this is interesting,’ ” he said. He says uncertainty about a story’s veracity is unlikely, in most cases, to keep an editor from posting it. “I think BuzzFeed is probably a little bummed they are being called out, but they are not going to start asking for three sources,” he said. It is unclear how much readers care whether a fascinating story is true or not, at least in terms of clicking on it. Melanie C. Green, a social psychologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said that while people told her they cared deeply, their emotional responses remain the same either way. “It’s the same as movies or books,” she said. “We want to see something new, maybe escape our lives.” Most embellished stories have little real-world consequence, but not all. People donated $60,000 to Ms. Tirado, based on her vivid description of a life of poverty, until she closed off donations (Gawker also suggested people stop giving her money.) In an email conversation last week, Ms. Tirado directed a reporter to seek her public assistance records and said that she thought people were “using this as an opportunity to avoid talking about the issues.” She expressed no intention to return the money. Zach Poitras, a Brooklyn comedy writer who wrote the Santa letter two years ago, said he felt he had been unfairly labeled a hoaxer. “I am not into pranking people,” he said. He and friends began calling some of the websites that carried the Santa letter as soon as they saw it online. “The real hoax,” he said, is that some journalistic websites can be lazy. “No one called me,” he said. “They waited for the facts to come to them to correct.” Decemeber 9, 2013 NyTimes

<cite> @longtheta said:</cite> Wacko jihadis are abusive to animals, who knew? Its easy for Liberal Bigots like yourself to spew crap behind screen and bad mouth people.

We need to hear from Malistar aka Qoslaye's PR man, to tell us about this issue.

Would things or the popular sentiment had been any different if it was a known wife beater (Ray Rice anyone?) coming to the cake shop and the shop owner saying No to him? Or is it just a case of media and popular culture heaviy favoring anything and anyone affliated with that particular group?

Malistar, If Qoslaye already has a white communication Director that is milking UN/NGO money - then why are you still applying for that job?

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> I thought you were a "mumin" so what is this foul language? :-D I can smell hypocrisy. This is not Twitter, so either respond fully or go back in your corner of the class and crouch down facing the wall like a good school boy.

Seeing that you appear to be faith-based bigot... How can he ever engage you in a discussion (Bill Bob aka Abdullah Abdul) when you act and behave like a Demagogue by deliberately trying to negate anything he says witu your abhorent biase and fear mongering of anything faith-based. All you have shown so far is how beligerant and intolerant "Liberal Internet Trollers" are. Just a bunch of privilged a##wholes that are self righteous with their overly dogmatic anti- religious secular-liberalism.

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> DoctorK, I am not defending the atheists who want to abolish religion altogether, and there are certainly many of them out there. What I am saying is religion is not part of the political system in west anymore. People's religious views are not taken into account when laws are inacted by the elected politicians of these countries. If the Christian baker had his way and was allowed to discriminate against the gay couple, other members of the public would also demand "their right" to put their prejudices into practise. Racists would be allowed to refuse selling their merchandise or letting their properties to black people or other ethnicities they do not like. Haters of Muslims would also get away with making life difficult for us. Imagine if you found your dream job in the middle of a largely racist white community and they all refused to deal with you. Surely you would have no choice but to resign from your dream job and move out of the area. So to prevent such very real situations occuring, the secular parliaments of the west legislated laws to prohibit the refusal of sale to anyone regarless of their race, religion, gender, and yes sexuality. Such laws are designed to protect you from others as much as they protect other members of the public from your obvious prejudice. I really can't fathom how you associate yourself with being muslim at all. Your comments sound like something that Abdullah ibn Ubayy would say and his likes.

An example being selling cow milk in Somalia or opening a Day Care.

You know people from the diaspora bring back with them their foreign experiences. Experiences and ideas that do not necessarily work well in Somali unless you are a wealthy Somali (poor in the Diaspora but wealthy in Somalia).

Malistar, I thought that Qoslaye, Amisom and Mighty Uncle Sam (QAMUS)came in and did the job. Malistar, please please let us know how this happened? Also, please let us know if Qoslaye and his friends need more money to defend the Kenyan Seashores.

<cite> @nuune said:</cite> This picture was taken on Wednesday in Nairobi, and it is our president Hassan suing Kenya over the the claim of Kenya on Somalia's territorial waters. Yes, he is disputing with Uhuru Kenyatta as you can see. They are both killing and robbing Somalis - Blindly! Idiots deserve to be treated like idiots.

Modern Norm # 7 - The media dictates popular culture and thought. > So if the media tells you that a particular person is evil, then it becomes socially obligatory to hate and badmouth that person. If the media tells you (by way of social commentary and film) that white people are hard working and successful and that black people are just lazy and a bunch of whiners, then you will believe in "white is always right".

Modern Norm # 6 - The idea of Freedom of expression. > As long as it is supported by popular culture, you are free to express that thought or idea. So long as it is not deemed to be socially unscceptable e.g. Writing about women staying at home instead of working or denying thr holycost.

<cite> @Naxar Nugaaleed said:</cite> The veil is not Islamic and brings security problems I wonder how many niqabis shot up a school? How many niqabis bombed school kids? How many niqabis carried AR-15s undet their "viel" and did a shooting spree at a school or a movie theater? Or how many times a Niqabi or Hijabi cause a plane to be halted due to a danger? Answer: Next to none if none at all. Move on to another point of discussion.

Every side must usurp its position. Secular Liberalist have an adamant intolerance for anything religio affliated and Godcentered. They are only tolerant with what parallels and is congruent with their thinking. It is by and large the worldview, a profane worldview wherein what is Halal becomes Haram and what is Haram becomes Halal. نعذُ بالله

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> The western world privatised religion and made it a personal issue many centuries ago so any Muslim who is uncomfortable about the satanic way of life enjoyed in these heathen countries should stop whining and just get the f:ck out. And the Mumin's response to the Munafiqin: قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ اسْتَعِينُوا بِاللَّهِ وَاصْبِرُوا إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ Said Moses to his people: "Pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience and constancy: for the earth is Allah's, to give as a heritage to such of His servants as He pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous. Sura al araf, v.128 And finally...go kick rocks

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Modern Norm #5 All of the nations in the world must be judged according to British and American standards. How closely do they resemble the British/American model? Is it secular enough to their liking? Do they promote "diversity" and gay rights? Infact, the definitii of a "Good Society" or "Quality of life index" is often measured on those scales/metrics. What white society deems good "has" to be universaly accepted or else Uncle Sam and the Queen and all their friends will send in their big machinary - to force you ( Uhmm I mean to help you" to make those societal changes.)

Khayr, If the minorities in the USA want to advance further, then they need to adopt a value-system which encourages advancement. Your comment presumes this: - Advancement in the form of capitalism is the answer to all worries and sorrows. - That you if your goal is economic prosperity the. Capitalism is the only way. So how can minioritied have a different value system when there valued are the same as the rich. One group is dirty rich and the other is envy ridden for the rich. Btw, it is not an even and fair playing field in terms of education, housing and jobs for black people. A people that are synonmous with negative images. If you are an ambitious black person, then you are considered to have a chip on your shoulder. If you are an well and articulate black person, you are considered to be "angry and overly aggressive".

Funny thing happened. I wrote a response and it is not on here. I really like the artice and I think we should move it to the "Islam"'section for a better discussion.

SAUDI ARABIA Saudi religious police reject foreign bias claim 'There is no difference between a foreign resident and a Saudi national,' says Head of Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief September 3, 2014 Image Credit: Manama: The head of Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has rejected accusations that the department’s swift investigation of an incident involving a couple was prompted by the British nationality of one of the persons involved. “There is no difference between a foreign resident and a Saudi national when it comes to addressing issues,” Shaikh Abdul Lateef Al Shaikh said. “It is unfair to compare this case with other cases that took longer to resolve because of technicalities. In some cases, it was not up to the Commission to make decisions, but in other cases we did move swiftly and took the stringent decisions that were expected against those who abused or wronged others,” he told a TV station over the phone on Tuesday evening, local site Al Marsad reported. However, several Saudis said on social networks that the prompt response by the Commission to the incident and the disciplinary measures taken against its staff were motivated mainly by the fact that one of those at the receiving end was a British national. “Compare how the case of the Saudi female student who was killed in Britain is moving with the case of the British citizen in Saudi Arabia, and you can see a huge difference,” one blogger said, referring to Nahid Al Manea, the Saudi victim of a knife attack who was stabbed 16 times and left to die in a park in Colchester as she walked home from university. The police are still looking for the killer. Related Stories British man, Saudi wife attacked by religious police - video Saudi virtue commission apologises to abused couple “We feel that foreigners enjoy privileges that nationals or Arab expatriates do not,” another blogger said. But Al Shaikh dismissed the claims as untrue. “The Commission does not consider nationalities when it seeks the truth,” he said. “The disciplinary actions it took were part of upholding people’s rights.”

http://io9.com/heres-what-happens-when-white-people-move-into-your-nei-1627658680 We used to have white flight. Now, in city centers, we have something that one policy researcher calls white infill. So what happens when a bunch of white people start moving in? The changes are a lot more profound than getting a new Starbucks on the corner. Photo by torbakhopper Actually, it probably does mean getting a Starbucks or another upscale cafe, as many people protesting the gentrification of New York's Harlem neighborhood have pointed out. But it also means a lot of other changes, mostly economic, which lead to dramatic cultural shifts. Put simply, across the United States, white infill is associated with gentrification. Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term "gentrification" to describe class struggles in London's Notting Hill and Islington areas. In 1964, she wrote about how gentrification took place after rich Londoners moved to these previously working-class areas, displacing their current residents. What's crucial about Glass' idea is that gentrification describes how wealthy migrants push out low-income locals. This Is What Gentrification Really Is Read more In North America, gentrification takes on a racial hue. Especially in the United States, it's likely that your class position will be correlated with your racial background: for example, blacks tend to be overrepresented among low-income people, while whites are overrepresented among middle and higher-income people. This is the result of many factors, including the history of slavery and immigration in the U.S., as well as profound ongoing problems with racist forms of discrimination. As a result, the gentrification of Chicago looks very different from gentrification in Berlin, Istanbul and London. But still, they are all examples of how wealthy groups from outside a city or neighborhood displace locals with low income. White People's Money If the incomes of these locals in the U.S. were rising at the same rate as the incomes of whites, this might not be such a problem. Maybe whites would come to town, move into some abandoned places, and spruce up the joint. The problem is that the income disparity between blacks and whites has been growing immensely over the past few decades. Local black residents can't compete with the white infillers for space. So when whites flock to a black neighborhood, they are often the harbingers of doom. Rents skyrocket to the point where the original population can no longer afford it — and they move to low-income suburbs like Ferguson outside St. Louis. Suburbs have been America's ghettos for years now, though many people didn't realize it until the mortgage crisis unfolded. In media reports and analysis, it became obvious that the people hit hardest in the resulting foreclosure disaster were the suburban poor and working class, many of whom were made homeless. That was the moment when we could no longer ignore the way the populations of cities were transforming before our eyes. Whites once fled the inner cities to the suburbs, but now it's the outer cities that whites abandon for the "excitement" of city life. I'm not saying that these white people came up with a devious plan to kick out the local black or Latino populations in cities. They just don't notice when it happens, or they believe that the benefits of gentrification will "trickle down" to the poor. Their beliefs are even backed up by a few studies, using pre-2000 data, finding that gentrification doesn't result in displacement. But in the years since 2000, that picture has changed.