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Qawz Quzah
"(A Molotov cocktail) is an improvised weapon that is often used in riots and acts of sabotage because it is easy to make and use,'' according to an article in Tunisian children's magazine Qawz Quzah.
A how-to guide on putting together a Molotov cocktail is not something you would expect a children’s magazine to feature, but that is exactly what recently ran in "Qawz Quzah," a popular Tunisian magazine whose name means "rainbow" in Arabic and is aimed at children aged five to 15.
“(A Molotov cocktail) is an improvised weapon that is often used in riots and acts of sabotage because it is easy to make and use,'' reads the article, which came complete with detailed instructions on how to make a Molotov cocktail and appeared in the latest edition of Qawz Quzah.
The article, which appeared in a section of the publication called "Knowledge Corner," touched a raw nerve in a country still struggling to tame the unrest stirred up by last year's successful revolution, the first of the Arab Spring. The government on Monday announced that it would prosecute the popular magazine for running it.
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Tunisia's revolution led to the democratic election of a transitional government headed by the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, but violence persists among extreme religious groups. Molotov cocktails have been the weapon of choice in these confrontations.
A 'professional mistake'
Speaking from Tunis, Rabii Kalboussi, a journalist working for the English-language website Tunisia Live, told NBC News that the story has provoked a stronger reaction abroad than it has inside the country itself.
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“No one knows why such an article was published. It is a kids' magazine, so I don't think there are political intentions behind it,” he said.
“I don’t believe the government is really aware of the impact these things have on children, especially if they are regular readers of the magazine,” Kalbous added.
On Tuesday, the magazine’s editor-in-chief Monji Chebbi was forced to apologize on Tunisian television for what he described as a “professional mistake.”
The Ministry for Women and Family Affairs said the article “encourages violent and terrorist thought'' and it also endangers children's lives by “encouraging the use of Molotov cocktails in acts of vandalism or terrorism."
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The Molotov cocktail was named after Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister during the 1950s. It is a general term used to describe improvised incendiary devices.
NBC’s Charlene Gubash and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Another place where public education is sticking their noses where they don't belong. Building Molotov cocktails should be something the kids learn at home from their parents.
They learn this and we put our kids in karate classes. Hyeeee Yeaaa!
Next month's featured article: How to make napalm in you garage.
They should not need a magazine to build one It is mostly comman sense. but then it probably sells magazines in tht country... GREED make money on a Magazine article..
Why didn't they use a Tunisian kid in the article instead of a freckled-faced white kid? Something pretty fishy going on there.
Tunisia? Is there something here we're supposed to care about?
Not sure I agree with DenverBill2. My 6th-grade teacher, Mr. Lenney, explained to the whole class how to make a Molatov cocktail. I still know how to make one, but I've completely forgotten who Molatov was (Mr. Lenney taught us that, too).
They look like farm kids from Kansas or something. So it must be stock clip art. Too lazy to make cartoons of local kids.
“I’m taking Liza deer hunting in deer season,” Ryan told reporters. “She going to get to go hunt for deer this year for the first time. She’s hunted with me, but this is the first time she gets to do hunting herself. She’s 10 years old, she can hunt starting at 10.”
“I got her a rifle for Christmas last year so I’m getting her ready to go,” he added. “I got her a Remington 700 .243 junior model, .243 is the caliber. It’s a good gun.”
Perhaps this is what Mitt should be concerned with.....NOT Sesame Street
denver bill 2,
"Building Molotov cocktails should be something the kids learn at home from their parents."
That's probably true, but as useful a tool as Molotov cocktails can be, especially in the Middle East, knowing how to make one is certainly something that should be found in every child's skill set. Whether it is taught by the state in public schools or at home by parents, it is definitely a must have.
Well said!!!! Nothing like home schooling.
mozzie-600, I noticed that, too. Also a girl, not covered, and both in 'western' dress. How odd.
Hi Bandit, obama is the one obsessing on big bird, not romney. obama, also ignores the fact that these people hate America and Americans.
**RR 2012**
mozzie-600,
"Why didn't they use a Tunisian kid in the article instead of a freckled-faced white kid?"
Maybe this article is actually addressed to freckle-faced white kids in the West who happen to be able to read Arabic. I know a few little white boys on my block who can read Arabic fluently. :)
Good point, Mozzie. You think maybe subliminally they don't like being the sub-humans they are? Can't blame 'em.
That's the last straw!
Tonight is family night at my house and since my wife & I both served in the military, I think we are going to get together with our 9 yo & 5 yo to teach 'em how to field strip an AR-15 assault rifle.
Gonna have to begin a new family tradition to keep up with that 'religion of peace.'
Remember in the good old days when it was 'keep up with the Joneses'....
...now its 'keep up with the Jihadists'
yes, marklepew, because making molotov cocktails is JUST like deer hunting.
What cracks me up is that you actually think you had a point.
Guns are less deadly than fire...
GG to the tunarians, GG... sorry, had to bring a video game refrence in :P
@Mozzie and Ma - Agreed...ODD...very odd.
Brings a whole new meaning to "kiddie" cocktails, eh?
I can not believe they would publish something like this in a kids magazine. I guess it just goes to show the general mentality of the people in that part of the world. They teach from a young age how to build bombs and destroy things instead of how to build them. After all, I guess you are never too young to be a martyr and get your virgins in heaven - I mean after all their prophet was a pedophile who took a 13 year old for a wife.
Of course this is horrible. But I wonder, when Israeli founders (hagana, irgun and stern gang) invented this cocktail, did they even consider that it would live long after their take over of Palestine? I guess they thought they could use it against arabs there and never see it used anywhere else? The people who put this in a kids magazine should rot in hell, the people who used them in 1946 to kill palestinians, should also rot in hell. I'm guessing that some of them already are. what ye shall sow, ye shall reap.
Hey Stupid..er.. I mean WORM MEAT, Romney is the one who brought up Sesame Street, NOT Obama. Get your facts straight. It's just that he knew he F*cked up so he (and the conservs.) what the subject dropped...... Too Late!
You know what the followers of the moon god always say, you can't start training the kids early enough.
I wondering how a Molotov cocktail is lumped in with explosives. It is not explosive. It's a bottle some gas and a rag. You throw it the bottle breaks on impact and the rag ignites the gas, no explosion. Now if they were giving instructions on building a pipe bomb, the head line would be accurate. Journalists, you have to love their ignorance.
A molotov cocktail is NOT an explosive. If it was an explosive then why doesn't the FBI class it as a weapon of mass destruction, you know, like actual explosives???
Ever been to Tunisia? They have horrible internet service over there. Our children have the advantage of learning this in a self paced environment in our own homes. These poor Tunisian children have to search through periodicals. We should give them some financial aid. They don't even have PBS for crying out loud.
JS in SD,
"They teach from a young age how to build bombs and destroy things instead of how to build them."
That's not entirely true, although in this particular case it certainly is. The Taj Mahal in India and the Alhambra in Spain are fine examples of Muslim architecture that show Muslim's know how to build things, too.
Yes, it easy to blame the "Jew" for everything wrong in the world. Wars, banking, killing god and all. So nice of the KKK and various Islamist groups, to keep the meme alive. Otherwise no one would fall for it. Time, and time again, so nice to see it shared on newsvine.
http://chemistry.about.com/od/firecombustionchemistry/a/molotovcocktail.htm
kpr37,
"Yes, it easy to blame the "Jew" for everything wrong in the world."
The Jews had nothing to do with the invention of the Molotov cocktail (improvised incendiary devices) anyway. Such devices were first used in the Spanish Civil War by Franco's fascists against Soviet tanks, and were later christened Molotov cocktails after the Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, by Finnish soldiers during the Winter War of the Soviet Union against Finland.
It is really hard to comprehend the fact the the terrorist organizations scattered through' t the world ,
are putting this kind of information in a child's book. These bastards need to be exterminated, once and for all. All of them.
There seems to be no actual religious back ground. Just Muslim teachings, and violent training against the rest of the world.
How dare they do this? They should take example from America and teach their kids that war is good and that we should kill everyone who is not like America! (pffft...Molotov cocktails..thats kids stuff!)
Hey Bandit, You are the one who stated that romeny is concened with sesame street, your right romney mentioned it first to make a point.
It's obama who jumped all over it and is spending money to create an ad campaign around the comment. obama has been going around the country trying to 'save big bird'. An ad campaign that sesame street is suing the president to stop for copyright infringement.
What obama should be concerned with is saving our economy, saving jobs, saving, and protecting America and Americans form these people who want to kill us.
You also show how much you really hate and your lack of intelligence when you go straight to throwing out insults. Have a nice day!
**RR 2012**
grilledcheese,
my point was....... I don't think it wise to put any type of weapon in a child's hands..........I guess you just missed that
We will have to teach these skills to our children because the only way we will get our country back from the two corrupt parties is revolution.
Worm meat
I assume that you moniker describes the condition of your brain. All "these people" (a term used nearly exclusively by stereotyping racists) are no more alike than you and, well, any thinking human being.
Nice piglizard, go right to the race card. remember if you dont like something someone says, you can always call them a racist, even without knowing ANYTHING about the person.
it's really getting old and has lost any real meaning.
Worm Meat
Your name Say's alot!! But anyhow this is in response to your comment above, this part right here in particular;
How can you make that statement against the President in support of a man WHO HAS MADE MILLIONS OFF OF SHIPPING USA JOBS OVERSEAS?????? He is a predator of the worst kind and if you are one of the 99% in this country then you need to heed this, HE IS NOT IN THIS TO HELP YOU OR ANY OF US IN THE MIDDLE CLASS!!!!! He is in this to funnel taxpayer money and contracts to his friends and to sit back with his silver spoon sons (who not one of has served in the US military) and sip triple malt scotch, fondle high dollar call girls/escorts and point and laugh at the dead bodies of soldiers returning from the war they started for no other reason than to profit from it, just like the previous GOP POTUS!!!!!
godammit people - old wine bottle with cork; rag for wick, gasoline to fill. pour gas into bottle. shove in about 1/3 of the rag, shove in cork. pour bit of the gas on the rag, light rag, throw at solid target, bottle breaks, target BURNS!
WOW!! ROCKET SCIENCE!!
yo - wormmeat - FU CK The V-V twins - vulture and voucher. How would you like ANOTHER military conflict?
Hey ... that's the same wrtiting on Obama's wedding band, except Obama's wedding band says
.... " There is No God Except Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet "
They teach their kids to make incendiary devices and we teach ours to use firearms. And we think we're better than them? Yes, marklepew does have a point, grilledcheesesandwich.
Guns are used for hunting, that is why there are HUNTING rifles, there are no "hunting" molotov cocktails. Besides, you can kill far more with a molotov than a gun. Through one into a building(make it out of balsa or something) and see how quickly it goes up in flames. Now, imagine that it is a large building, with lots of people in it. A gun is only good until it runs out of ammo, or until you get surrounded, which is very likely, considering how loud it is. With a molotov, all you need to do, is through it at a large building, and run away. No evidence, and you are free to do it again and again.
Mr. Lenney was an idiot for teaching you that.
Vyor Derfa,
"Guns are used for hunting, that is why there are HUNTING rifles, there are no "hunting" molotov cocktails."
No, but Molotov cocktails are a lot cheaper than guns, and Middle Easterners are poor.
Vyor: Frankly, I don't see much difference. You can use some guns for hunting, but you can use all of them for killing. They work very well in crowded theaters and subways, much the same way a molotov cocktail would. And you can't snipe invisibly from a rooftop with a molotov or take out targets hundreds of feet away.
zuksam, the only people mentioning the"solution" you have, are the filthy raggamuffin occutard losers. The scum who never did anything with their opportunity in this great country and jealously covet the lifestyle of those who were willing to work hard, invest and sacrifice while shunning the instant gratification your programming tells you you are entitled to at the expense of others.
We all know how much it burns you up to see images of others living large as you dose your brain with entertainment and "News" while you deal with your own pathetic reality. Do stop coveting what you have not earned and do not deserve, refrain form the bear hugging of jealousy and servicing of envy, vomit the avarice, purge your being of the poison addling your brain and cease and desist from suggesting idiotic "remedies" for the problems of our society.
Your comments always crack me up, denver bill.
@AG After a quick google search I only found toys and military grade rifles that can do what you just described. You can use any gun for hunting, pistols for cats and shotguns for bears(or deer). You have to remember, the guy that killed JFK was caught, very quickly as well.
@mickey your point?
Vyor Derfa,
"@mickey your point?"
I thought my point was pretty clear: Molotov cocktails are cheaper than guns.
Ok... that still doesn't explain why they would need it, trying to use a molotov for hunting is just inviting a massive fire.
Vyor Derfa,
"trying to use a molotov for hunting is just inviting a massive fire."
You're right, but I never said they could be used for hunting. I just said they are cheap and that Middle Easterners are poor so they can afford Molotov cocktails more easily than guns.
Vyor: There's not much to be gained from debating the various attributes of incendiary devices vs firearms. My original point, and marklepew's as well, was that it's inappropriate to teach young kids to handle weapons. They don't understand the consequences, be they bombs, guns, or knives.
We consider ourselves to be better than Middle Easterners, but we're doing the same things they are only on a lesser scale. We teach our kids to fire guns and to hate anyone not like them, and they learn these lessons well. You only have to read some of the posts here to see it. (Not yours, but some of the others.)
I overheard Achmed talking to Habbib about this just the other day.
He made mention of how the kids today blow up so fast! :/
"Religion of Peace"? Yeah, right! More like Religion of (blown to) Pieces.
Give It A Rest!: Good one! ~_o
Thank you AG990 for explaining what I had thought would be something everyone would agree with.........apparently there are still people who not only condone but also encourage children to play with potentially lethal weapons. It might be a better idea to give them books so they can learn about the world before we show them how to destroy it.
Learn how to use a "tool" properly at a young age so you do not fear it when you grow old...
Teach those job skills early and your children will have a bright future with a hot career.
Since when exactly?
@mark So tell me, how is knowing how to make a molotov cocktail a useful skill? You can't say that hunting isn't a useful skill.
Have you read the posts around here? Obama is a Kenyan Muslim. Romney wants to enslave women to their uterus. Jews are taking over the world. Gays have an agenda they're pushing down everyone's throats. Occupy are a bunch of deadbeats living in their parents' basements. Tea Partiers want to wreck America. Muslims hate everyone. Blacks are stupid. And so on.
These attitudes didn't come from nowhere. They're learned, not from an official teacher, but from our peers and the media. No one stops to think these people are just like them; it's easier and more satisfying to make them the enemy. We may not be bombing the objects of our hatred like they do in the ME, which may be a sign of at least some superiority, but we're just as hate-filled.
And no, I don't think hunting is a useful skill. Everything I need is in the supermarket. How many people have ever hunted for subsistence? But then I don't believe in the coming apocalypse either and wouldn't own a gun if Dad hadn't given me one.
Uh.... Yeah. Since I have better things to do, I'll just hit a handful of the high points.
Hunting keeps wildlife populations at manageable levels and diseases at bay.
Hunting provides millions of dollars in revenue to State environmental organizations for maintaining and improving habitats.
Hunting keeps us in touch with our ancestral past.
"Hunting for the hungry" programs help feed low income and unemployed families.
Hunting for subsistence is widely practiced by many who live in the country/rural areas.
"Hunting" is the hard part of what you do before taking the animal harvest.
Wild game has always shown itself to be a more healthy choice over that of what is available in the supermarket.
MIT study predicting ‘global economic collapse’ by 2030 still on track. (one of many that comes up in a simple google search.)
My take? It's better to be safe, than sorry...
Spiddas,
Are you really Ted Nugent's illegitimate son?
LOL! Not unless he had an illegitimate son when he was in his mid teens! ~_o
Truth be told, I had my philosophies regarding the subject lo-o-ong before I found out what his were. (Never knew about his until 3 or 4 years ago.) Even though I'm originally from a major metro area in the mid-west, I did my "growing up" in the boonies.
Wish I had that chemistry set my parents bought me when I was a kid. Who knows what I could have mixed together.
Wild game is much better for you. No antibiotics no synthetic steroids.
Wild Turkey tastes like Turkey, not a "Butterball"
If it was like the chemistry set my parents gave me when I was a kid, you could make some pretty impressive stuff. I know I managed to make some rather impressive booms. At least I was smart enough to do it where it didn't harm anything else.
There are much worse things on the internet that everyone of all ages has access to. I fail to see how this is headline worthy material. Google the anarchist cookbook for example
If your 5 year old is reading the anarchist cookbook, you are doing a crappy job as a parent.
Just FYI.
Yes. This more of a lesson for young kids on how to set themselves and their friends on fire.
Kids, remember to drink about a quart of gasoline before filling the bottle.
@Steve the dog man.......you must be the editors son with that type of advice. ijs
How about you google Anarchist's Cookbook, then tell us how long it takes before somebody from Homeland Security shows up at your door?
Sure goggle the anarch. cookbook and get put on a watch list - no thank you!
We are all on one watch list or another.. Just say you don't like Obama and his politics and ther you go, on a list.. We send our kids to scouts to learn tolerance, manners, knot tying and swimming ect. and the Islam cult followers teach there kids hate and intolerance and how to kill so what is the big surprise.. Hitler started a program of indoctrinating children into his hate cult and look what sprung from that.. 12 year old with guns and rpg's dying alongside old men defending the fatherland..
@Roadrunner0 Hitler and Obama--first reference! I knew it wouldn't be long before one of you showed up to try to make a comment that has nothing to do with the subject!
Brendan-4
You seem to write well so I'm going to guess that you are an educated idiot.
Roadrunnero, I am getting so freakin sick of all your and your kinds hatred for our president. You may not like him, but really he is a lot better than the one who really screwed up on terrorisim. Romney isn't looking much better. Who the hell do you think you and your right wing aholes think you are? You are certainly not as bright as you think your leaders say you are. You are just being used. To the article, if the US is sending ANY kind of aid to them, and if they are, they were sending it long before Obama became President, we should be calling an end to it and rallying our allies to do the same. This is an old story. Many nations have done similar. Even the Bush friends, the Saudis. They even had a telethon to raise money to support so called suicide bombers families right after 9/11. You should be using your energies to get our congress to grow some balls to stop importing ANY mid-east/muslim oil into this country. Newsflash! We are now producing more oil in the US than anytime in the last 30 years no matter what YOU say and trying to tell your believers that "Obumbo" has put a stop to US oil production, that we are now EVEN exporting gasoline. Give the lying a rest.
People... he wasn't comparing hitler and obama... he compared hiler to islamic extremists... reading comprehension, learn what it means...
@rednawt3: guess you'll just have to get used to being sick , TS.
If your 5 year is reading the anarchist cookbook (And understanding it) I'll be impressed as hell.
Stop funding BIGBIRD, and see what happens...
Gneisenau: My thoughts, exactly!
Personally, I've seen/read the "cookbook" and wasn't very impressed with it.
Gee, now al Queda has bombers ready from ages 5 to 75!
See how well a democracy works! The Arab spring has sprung!
So a magazine is teaching children how to defend themselves the same way an American father would teach his son/daughter to defend themselves with a handgun. I guess Tunisians should just breastfeed their children until age 13 right?
I for one support this. The Moslems have their methods of survival and we have ours - I'm not going to fault them for not raising their children to be doormats. Or would you faux conservatives prefer that Tunisians rely on the police for protection?
My, how "small government" you faux conservatives are!!!
Exactly. I keep a Molotov cocktail ready on my nightstand in case somebody breaks into my house at night. Don't you?
If you're teaching a young child to weild a handgun, you are demented. This kind of thing is a symptom of a visciously violent society that has no value for life or the preciousness of youth, of a type I think none of us wishes to live in. But then again, it seems some of us do. And those very same people sit back and wonder why America's going down the toilet. Why would someone who wants nothing more than to "conserve" a peaceful society not qualify as a "real" conservative? You don't even know what the labels you throw about mean anymore.
Travis you are an Idiot, you don't make moltov cocktails to defend yourself, stay in New England with all the other liberal idiots.
Soooo....... According to Travis, this is all Bush's fault! Let me ask you a follow up question... How will gun control solve this?
gun controls won't help according to conservatives, but then they are all up in Holder's face about fast and furious letting guns go after Arizona sells thousands of assault rifles to unemployed people who resell them in the parking lot, nope can't restrict gun sales..............hey don't ya-all say guns don't kill people?
@marklepew - yours is about the stupidest comment yet. But there are many contenders...
And here you are again, marklepew, apparently thinking you made some brilliant leap in logic.
Yes, genius, people kill people - and in this case, criminals are killing OUR BORDER PATROL AGENTS with the guns Holder gave them. What part of that don't YOU have a problem with? Or are you OK with the fact that our border agents are being murdered by criminals with the guns Holder gave them?
I'm guessing your name has something to do with the state of your brain. You had no problem with Ollie north and reagan breaking the law selling weapons to IRAN. But a sting operation makes holder a bad man. Agents have been murdered long before Holder was even born. Criminals come in all shapes and sizes. People like you are fortunate that being ans ass is not against the law. However, being ans ass, is it's own ironic punishment. lol
so grilled are you admitting people with guns kill people? If that is the case, as in the exampe you have given, then it seems it would be wise to restrict the strawman sales of guns to people who want to use them to resell to cartels so that they can kill border patrol agents. I know you agree then that gun controls laws are wise in this case............or don't you care about our border patrol agents?? You really need to research more about fast and furious, the ATF wanted to arrest the person who sold the guns that killed the BP agent, unfortunately the DOJ in AZ wouldn't issue an arrest warrant.
No, he is saying people kill people. You can kill just as many, if not more, with a knife as a gun. Just ask Jack the Ripper. Ya, guns can be used to kill people, so can knives, a chair, a table, a spoons, a fork... EVERYTHING can kill a person if you use it right...
@Mark, you do know who has the last word in issuing warrants right?
Also, yes, gun control laws are needed, but have to many and the only salesmen will be the cartel(and other illegal organizations), and they won't sell to people like you and I. It is the same reason why we need to legalize(certain) drugs.
Typical played out Pseudo-Liberal tactic. Make a blanket statement expressing hatred and intolerance based upon a stereotype. Assuming you know how anyone feels about the scandal you mentioned shows how much of a thinker you are. If you had ever bothered to actually sit and talk with members of the demographic you demonize, it would dawn upon you how incorrect you are on this point.
If you were actually endowed with the inherently superior intellectual capacity you have been programmed by the media to believe you are, the aforementioned discovery would lead you to question your own stereotyping paradigm and how you were brainwashed to blindly follow.
If you studied history and examined how Joseph Goebbels pulled the wool over the eyes of millions, you would recognize that you have been manipulated using the exact same method.
Lastly you would understand just how much of a hypocrite your intolerant behavior makes you, and would recognize the PL designation as quite fitting.
Con science: What was said about the similarity between reagan and the Iran weapon sale and the Holder F&F is not inappropriate at all. I fail to understand why conservatives like yourself get all up in arms (pun intended) when another conservative leader's wrong doings or faults are pointed out. I think it's important to let history be told truthfully and not ignored or changed to suit the conservatives wishes. Do you live in Texas or just want to live in Texas? It might be just the place for you. The Board of Ed there is busy rewriting history books for schools.
Welcome to Islam-land, false religion of pieces.
You too can follow a pedophile prophet, a false desert god, and spend quality time with your children, making ieds, and suicide vests.
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However, if your head doesn't quite reach your @ss, and you can prove you are a non-muslim, I can teach you how to make a lot more interesting weapons at home - from anti-aircraft weapons to biological warfare agents and long-range delivery systems - and the best part: all the components are legal, common and already present in nearly every home!
Yay!
"and you can prove you are a non-muslim"
The best part is that your attitude very closely resembles the attitudes of those Muslims who convert others to violent action with the excuse that they're "defending their way of life" against those horrendous and immoral and deluded outsiders - right down to the "but I'm right and they're wrong!" part.
In other words, you're a really terrible human being.
Yep, I am. Just a truly terrible person. I served this nation during Desert Storm and Desert Fox out of my own self interest. And after I left the military, I worked eight long years as a firefighter because I just love watching peoples' homes burn.
And now I consult with the medical industry on implementing new technologies, just so they can charge even more for their services.
Wow, you really know me better than even I know me.
Or.. maybe I've lived long enough to have seen the age-old adage "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." play itself out time and time again in our political arenas, our business ventures, and in the best intentions of ordinary people.
Hey ... that's the same wrtiting on Obama's wedding band, except Obama's wedding band says
.... " There is No God Except Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet "
everybody knows the muslims are a caring people with no hidden agenda towards infidels, this is just a fun activity aimed at stamping out childhood obesity.
Kinda like the Atlanta Olympic bomber?
Forwarded to the department of homeland security.
"everybody knows the muslims are a caring people with no hidden agenda towards infidels"
Anyone who suggests that every single Muslim is a caring, peaceful person is a moron. On the other hand, anyone who thinks that Muslims aren't a caring people and that all of them want to kill infidels is an equally moronic individual.
That's because "Muslims" - that darned Other - are actually a group of over a billion individuals who have a widely varying set of beliefs. Too many of them are violent. But most of them are not. Some of them want to murder everyone who isn't a part of their group. Most of them do not.
You find it so easy to stereotype them because you don't know any. I do know some, and that's why I know that your suggestion that Muslims in general have it in for the rest of us is idiotic. Certain sects of Islam are a real threat. But there are hundreds of millions of Muslims who are loving and caring individuals and who have no desire to hurt anyone.
[Here's the part where someone quotes a violent commandment from the Quran to "prove" how every Muslim would kill infidels if they had the chance.]
[And here's where I quote an equally violent commandment from the Bible. Which provides decisive proof that every Christian has it in for every non-Christian person, as well as every person who belongs to the wrong Christian sect, as well as every women who can't "prove" her virginity on the wedding night, etc.]
[And so on.]
Jason, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there are many decent caring Muslims in the world.
But it's also true that Muslim children in most Arab countries are taught to hate. They are taught to hate Jews, they are taught to hate infidels, they are taught to hate. As long as Muslims keep doing that, they'll get no sympathy from me. And if you don't believe me, try doing a little google search on the subject.
Jason, I took Disappointed's comment as being sarcastic. Yes, there are many Muslims who are peace-loving and moderate. However, they are afraid to make waves with their more radical and vocal brethren as they, too, would be killed for being friends with "infidels". In the Arab world, the children have textbooks in school that teach them to hate everyone else, as grilledcheesesandwich stated. Until you can change the things that Muslim children are taught, there will be no peace in the M.E.
Oh, please. Anyone who took chemistry and is any good with it,
can walk into your house and find plenty of chemicals and other materials to blast your house into tiny splinters.
Making the explosives is the easy part. The trick is not being there when it goes off....
Like this is news. The "religion of peace" tends bar. Yes this is a peaceful cocktail.......
Did you expect more subtlety? Subtle, they ain't.....
{cue Dana Carvey as the Church Lady} "Well, isn't THAT special! First an "Arab spring" and now the fruits of that spring!"
Charming. Maybe one of those "cocktails" will explode in their faces. This whole thing is just disgusting!
Bethcat, molotov cocktails don't explode.
While lighting the bottle, some crack and flaming gasoline runs down your arm - or down your back when you try an overarm pitch....
Add a road flare to wicked pipe that makes a great way to lose fingers & a eye but match heads work better.
Or opening a can of propane in a building while smoking makes for a red hot flash dance.
Lastly, a smart kid can fill his mouth vanilla extract and blow out a match -
Try these and Darwin will be so proud..... that you have returned your molecules back so evolution can work again.
Skool's for fools anyways
Voice of experience.
Steve, I believe
went ppphhhheeewwww - right over your head
Steve meet Sarcastic Humor...
What all you people are not paying attention to the media and all our leaders around the world have always said in there own word...it is hard to pick out but just listen they all say the same thing.....
If your arab with a moltov or ak's it is a protest.....if you black white or oriental it is a riot.
just listen to your media and you leaders.....that is what they say.
That is just so darling and so cute. What a bunch of vile pieces of @!$%#.
It's called brainwashing kids! We teach you how to hate at a young age and now we'll teach you how to make your own weapon!
I've seen videos of the KKK teaching 5-6 year old kids to think like this. I am beyond thankful when I was little there were some black guys picking up the trash out front. This was probably 1966 and I asked my mom why their skin was dark and our's was light. She said they were originally from Africa and their skin was darker because of the sun. And that's ALL she said. I didn't learn about racism until I was about 10 years old and my similar aged neighbor used a word I had never heard before. I went home and asked what is this word. Mom said it was a bad word to put down other people different from us. At 10 years old I understood what she meant and that my neighbor was kind of a jerk. Parents teaching little kids to automatically hate because of color were taught by their parents. Someday it MAY stop. My mom let me find out by myself about different races without any coaching and I really love her for that. I'm a blues musician who has played many black clubs and NEVER had a problem. Just be yourself.
Your mom sounds like a wonderful and wise woman. Racial intolerance is a taught behavior and mostly taught by the parents. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be stopped. I don't care what color a person is, I care how they act.
Thank you Lyrica. I was obvoiusly a moment that would have defined me for the rest of my life. Hate somebody because you mom and dad told you too, or find out about the world on your own terms.
I agree. I was lucky as well to have a mother that did the same with me. She's also a southern belle and in her mid-eighties today. I just wish I followed her advice to learn to play the piano. I love the blues (I know you're familiar with Joe Bonamassa!).
Actually, American and British boys were taught similar skills by the Boy Scouts organizations. And magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics had articles aimed at young boys that included how to make gunpowder, how to cast lead, and fun things to do with carbide.
And I remember having toys in my boyhood that could have easily been converted to very real weapons. BB-guns and pump-style air rifles, CO2 pistols and rifles, Lawn Darts (later outlawed due to the number actual injuries reported), toy grenades that fired caps, etc in the 50's and 60's. Later age toys included high powered slingshots, compact cross-bows, Shurikens made from scrap steel (could pentrate 3/4" plywood), boomerangs in the 70's and 80's.
Context is the only sin here. A marginally stable state with a children's magazine explaining how-to. I learned the same thing about age ten studying WWII history books. Btw, diesel could also be used, but did not burn as well or spread as quickly as gasoline, but burned for a longer time. I also got chewed out by my Jr High chemistry teacher for trying to cook up a batch of nitroglycerine in the school lab. We had already successfully made gunpower, but failed to mill it properly, so it just burned really quickly rather than blowing up.
It is not correct to equate "the teaching of a 10 year old" in the proper use and maintenance of a firearm as "allowing them to play" with said weapon. I believe that the majority of accidents in the US with weapons committed by children were actually done by children who where never taught the proper use and maintenance of the firearm.
What is worse is that we seem to focus so much on this and not on the fact that in 6 more years, that child will be greated legal access to the number one killer of young people in this nation. They will be given a driver license and allowed to drive a car.
If we really do want to prevent the accidental death of ALL children, maybe we should not allow them to drive until they are 30. That would actually reduce more deaths.
I've seen the intensive burn care units in hospitals...for children. And I've seen the burnt body's OF those children, who attempted to make Molotov cocktails. They are disfigured for life. On medication for pain that will be with them forever. And the psychological trauma...never leaves.
The people that produced that article should be taken out and shot. Weapons of destruction and protest DO NOT BELONG IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN!
But, these folks are of the same mindset that straps a bomb to their baby and wife, then sends them to a busy shopping district. Between vicious and violent, I'm sure they must care about something! Oh yeah, I forgot, they care about dying so they can go to their widdle heaven. Too bad they can't find any other way to get there than to make others have to kill them to protect their own wives and children from the lunatics.
They sure aren't very bright if they need lessons on making a Molotov cocktail.
freedom of expression, idiots.
Yes they are free to express themselves this way, but teaching children to make bombs is teaching them to be terrorists. Nobody is stopping the publication, but the rest of the world is free to criticize it
....idiot.
There's freedom of expression in an islamic country? Try feeling free to express something they didn't tell you you could express and see how much freedom of expression you have.
Why do people like you think they are making a point by saying, "freedom of expression, idiots" think you are the defenders of "free speech" yet try to stop peoples others freedom to pseak out against someone elses freedom of speech to speak in decent of the original expression? Who's the idiot I wonder? And before you post a response, yes you are free to express your decent with the people expressing their decent of the people expressing their freedom of speech.
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Hoever, I do believe the first time a child sets himself or herself on fire while trying to do this the people who support this kind of behavior should be held accountable. If not legally, then at least socially.
Sounds like something the NRA-PAC would do.
(I'm a gun owner, but the NRA is run by an insane person (Obama NOT going after your guns is PROOF he wants to take them away))
So when Obama nominated two staunch anti-gun SC Justices(Kagan, Sotamayor) and made Eric"We must brainwash the public that guns are bad" Holder to be AG, he was really just trying to show his support for the 2A. Not real hard to connect the dots. There is all kinds of information on Obama's consistently antigun stance if you take the time to do the research. You really need to apply some critical thought to your stance on gun ownership. The NRA is definately not a perfect organization but they are the currently the most effective champion of our right to possess arms.
Staying on topic, teaching kids how to make Molotov cocktails through a childrens magazine is unconscionable. What a world...
You gotta give 'em credit. The NRA does not endorse gun play until at least the fourth grade.
Look up Eddie the Eagle.
They were paranoid of Obama from day one. I couldn't find a single box of ammo for any of my rifles down here in Tennessee only weeks after the man was elected. In reality, arms manufacturers LOVE Obama. He has been their chief salesperson for almost 4 years now. Funny thing about him being so anti 2nd amendment though since nobody ever came to collect my registered firearms...
Obama is evil incarnate!
The NRA has absolutely nothing to do with the building of or use of explosives you morons!
Take a good look around for something about the size of a pea. It is probably your brain which flew out when you farted!
I know they don't cactus, but they ARE the chief lobby group for the firearms industry, of which I am a customer. If making you scared Obama's going to take away your guns will motivate you to stockpile ammo and assorted firearms... Think about it. The cash flow doesn't lie.
Yes, do look up Eddie Eagle. You will notice the emphasis on safety and responsibility. Nothing at all about "gunplay". Sounds like you have been hitting the Brady Koolaide pretty hard.
John, I agree with you, Obama has been an incredible boon for the firearms industry. I myself could live without all the paranoia that leads to some folks hoarding all the ammo they can get their paws on. All it does is drive the price up. Please do some google searches of Obama's antigun positions. It's not all put out by the NRA. Look at his voting record on gun related issues when he was a Senator. The truth is he can be a much greater threat to gun owners if he get's a 2nd term. After all, he would have nothing to lose at that point. He could nominate one or more activist SCOTUS Justices like Sotamayor(Kagan is as bad) who voted against an individual's right to keep and bear arms in the Chicago vs McDonald case. She did this after assuring members of the Senate that she recognized individuals rights as per the DC vs Heller case and that it was "Settled law". Antigun activists will tell any manner of lies to acheive their objectives.
As always, follow the money.
btw, Obama expanded a few gun laws. Remember? National parks? Amtrak?
I know, it's all just a clever elaborate plot. Yada yada yada...
Look up, "Paranoid Schizophrenia".
*cough*fearmongering*cough*
*cough*oblivious to facts*cough*
*cough*denial*cough*
Allergy season? Or you just smokin' too much?
More of that fabulous "peace and love" from the patently demented paramilitary Satanic cult of death, destruction, and hate called "Islam" and its Muslim cockroach members, really . . .
Really! :-o
Like 60 years of American aerial bombing of foreign villages/ cities, a decade of drone attacks at night killing unknown persons, economic sabotage, invasions that killed tens of thousands based upon lies of US presidents, chemical weapons and toxic residues spread around the world and inside the US- yeah you have a real soap box dude.
The combination of Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper aerial assault vehicles are very effective Muslim cockroach zappers, and they are Baldenario Approved for Muslim Infestation Control™, for sure . . .
For sure! :-D
@Dou44
Had a lot I was gonna say, decided to boil it down. If Bush admin "lied" about Iraq and didn't just have bad intel, then you have to also admit Obama "lied" about Benghazi and didn't just have bad intel. Try holding your own side to the same impossibly high standards you hold others and you might find yourself in a better country.
They are trying to get Molotov cocktail throwing recognized as a sport in the Olympics!
The title of the article along with some of the comments above are some of the dumbest things that I have seen. The article is not TEACHING children how to make Molotove (children find that and more very easily on the internet!!). Children in the Arab Countries (and some other countries too) are way more curious than children (and Adults) in America! Have you noticed how much DUBBIA knew about ANYTHING in life? When I asked a group of American college students to name the Secretary of State, their answer was Nancy Pelosi.....
Kids in the Arab countries ask a zillion questions about anything they hear and adults ANSWER them as much as they can. The writer of the article in the magazine would never have thought that some stupid people would take that as he/she is TEACHING them how to do it!! Has anyone noticed how many TOY GUNS are carried by AMERICAN kids............ Has anyone noticed how many guns are carried by AMERICAN ADULTS???????????
Another Muslim apologist! Welcome. I'll shake your right hand, because I know you wipe your ass with your left.
The Koran urges Muslims to marry 1st cousins. Most arab kids are curious about humping goats, and that is about all. But I don't need to tell you, do I. You seem to be an inbreeding expert.
American kids carry toy guns and in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Palistine, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, they carry real AK's...full auto.
Get off the ecstacy. Drugs are bad hmm-kay.
See Dick. See Dick fill bottle with gasoline. See Jane light Dick's wick. See Dick and Jane explode in a ball of fire. Who will Sally play with now?
Some other Dick
Oh, no...it's not all of Islam that is crazy and homicidal, it's only a few extremists.
If you distribute that lie to your garden it will fertilize things perfectly.
If you're right, then we're already screwed: 1.6 BILLION world-wide.
The only reasonable way out is to put your gun in your mouth and pull the trigger.
I'm constantly amazed at the level of stupidity of some of these posts. Consider this: for each one of you bigoted a$$-clowns on this side for the world, there's another one over "there" telling his kid that all "christians" are crazy, homicidal cockroaches that will kill you without a second thought. Enjoy each other - you're all exactly the same.
Mifo - were you aware that most Muslim children in most Arab countries are taught to hate from the first moment they enter school? They are absolutely indoctrinated into hating Jews specifically and hating infidels in general. People like you who ignore the truth are as big a danger to the rest of us as radical Islamists are.
I haven't attended an Arabic school in a Muslim country, nope. Have you? Or have you achieved your vast knowledge of middle-eastern theology from such enlightened sources as Glenn Beck and his cronies. Have you ever sat with someone from the ME and discussed their religion, politics, demographics, beliefs?
Let me try to explain what I'm saying more clearly and slowly.
1) Not all Muslims are radical Islamists.
2) Spreading hatred against ALL Muslims isn't going to help solve the problems of "them" hating "us".
3) YES - we should be vigilant and diligent fighting against RADICAL Islam (actually: radical "anything") and protect ourselves.
4) By focusing our fear and hatred against "all of them", we will NOT accomplish #3. Waste of time, resources, lives and counter-productive.
5) You and your bigoted, hateful ilk are the biggest danger there IS on this side of the world. You are no different than them, deep down. 12 years ago, people spreading the hateful filth like I see on this board would have been yelled down or laughed at and dismissed. Now it's considered normal. Many people who disagree with what you're saying are afraid to speak out for fear of being called unpatriotic, a Muslim, an apologist, a terrorist, blah, blah, blah. I don't care. You're no different than someone spewing anti-semetic garbage or hatred against blacks, whites, latinos, christians, japanese, irish - fill in the blank. It's your right to say what you like. It's mine to point out that you're a huge part of the problem, not the solution.
You know, first my mind tells me you are correct; then I remember reading the Koran and it teaches to lie to the non believers!!!! Sorry, I'll believe what I read first.
@Mifo
1) Not all Muslims are radical Islamists.
While this may be true, the regulaity of the "radical Islamists" being the voice of the Islamic faith is all too common to be ignored. The rules of the faith itself does espouse things that are used to justify attrocities. What I find most amazing is there Islam gets it's foundations from the Old Testament and the Teachings of the old and new testament figures. They even acknowledge Jesus as prophet, or so I've read in the Koran, yet the foundation of the faith under Mahammed(sp?) is in direct opposition to the teachings of the earlier religions.
2) Spreading hatred against ALL Muslims isn't going to help solve the problems of "them" hating "us".
Neither will ignoring the fact that we have already had judges in thei country in state courts uphold Sharia based defenses in court under the guise of "religious freedom" despite the fact Sharia law has a lot of "laws" that are against our very constitution.
3) YES - we should be vigilant and diligent fighting against RADICAL Islam (actually: radical "anything") and protect ourselves.
Can't argue with you on this one, 100% correct.
4) By focusing our fear and hatred against "all of them", we will NOT accomplish #3. Waste of time, resources, lives and counter-productive.
But by assuming the Islamist is "pieceful" is how our military personel are being shot by people they have trained. Under the assumption of not insulting anyone we are getting Americans killed. We need to hope for the best but expect/prepare for the worst. It'll save more lives that way. Another thing you seem to have forgotten is that Muslims in this country, USA, are less violent than those who live in constant propaganda filled areas like the middle east. Though I agree, the hatred must stop.
5) You and your bigoted, hateful ilk are the biggest danger there IS on this side of the world. You are no different than them, deep down. 12 years ago, people spreading the hateful filth like I see on this board would have been yelled down or laughed at and dismissed. Now it's considered normal. Many people who disagree with what you're saying are afraid to speak out for fear of being called unpatriotic, a Muslim, an apologist, a terrorist, blah, blah, blah. I don't care. You're no different than someone spewing anti-semetic garbage or hatred against blacks, whites, latinos, christians, japanese, irish - fill in the blank. It's your right to say what you like. It's mine to point out that you're a huge part of the problem, not the solution.
What you call it bigoted some call just being harsh, unlike those groups you mention Islamic faithful did destroy thousands of lives over 10 years ago. All in the name if religion. Jews, blacks, latinos, etc did not. I also believe most people who use the generality Islamist and Muslim mean the extremists, but the fact so few "moderate" muslims are doing anything in those countries to change things themselves doesn't help. Though the anti-terrorits protesters in Benghazi was a good start. Some how the Islamists of the middle east have never left their crusades behind the way the Christian faith has. That's what their "jihad" is a crusade.
Our positions aren't really far apart, Passing.
(I thought I was the only one that noticed the local backlash AGAINST the Bengazi attacks).
This should be no surprise. Any person who can not recognise what type of people live in this area would have to be in a coma. No doubt these peoples children will die in agony as they participate in the religious activities we have all grown so tired of hearing about. Just as their parents hoped. Insha'Allah losers
Well, ABC news showed the world how to start a fire without using any matches last night?
And, I'm still wondering why ABC thought showing something like starting a fire without matches was news worthy because with all of the crazy people out there I'm sure someone will try it.
So is there a difference between showing how to produce a destructive device in a magazine or during the evening news?
Fire is a tool and can be an important one in an emergency. Heat, light, and cooking to name a few uses. What use does a molotov cocktail have other than destruction? Not to mention fire was one of man's first primitive technologies. Believe it or not, it was before matches were invented! Alot of people have known multiple ways to start a fire without matches for a long, long time. Just because you had no previous clue, does not mean it's not well known.
The difference between the two is that concievably is that the ABC news deal wasn't targeted exclusively at children. And as for these people talking about "all they have to do is google it" or "they can find worse stuff on the internet" need to remember that not all countries allow open access to the internet the way we do in this country. For now at least, that is likely to change too. Bit that's another topic for later discussion.
not serious at all compared to how the history channel tells you how nuclear bombs are made or other types of serious explosives. Also, its nothing compared to what you'll learn by reading a survivalist text.
Here we go again, those things you mention are not marketed to children, this magazine was.
Who can afford gasoline to put in one these days?
This tickles me, lol. Its all fun and games until little Timmy hurls a flaming bottle of Vodka through Peter's window for stranding him in the air on the teeter-totter. Please, more stories like this. Mr. Wizard on PBS never taught cool stuff like this when I was young.