Comments on: Mysterious Fort Hood Killer’s Origins Revealed

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:31:04 +0000

I seriously doubt that Nidal was influenced by V For Vendetta. And I’m pretty sure that the goofs wearing the Guy masks were doing so because of the movie, not because they had any idea about who Guy Fawkes was.

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the one to stay with.

By: Zimriel

Zimriel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:09:12 +0000

I’ll come clean, I’m one of the guys who brought up the Guy (at Ace’s).

The point isn’t that Muslims care so much about 5 November. Before “V for Vendetta”, I was hard put to it to find anyone here outside Tudor / Stewart history buffs who had even heard of it.

The point is popular culture. Muslims watch Hollywood blockbusters and they partake in the local memes. After “V for Vendetta” came out, for instance, I saw a protest of Scientology of whose members more than one was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. (Disclosure: It wasn’t me. The Starbucks was next to their outlet. I just wanted to finish my coffee. I think the Scientologists moved away soon after.)

Maybe we should blame /b/?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:49 +0000

I always wondered what might have happened to poor Aziz had the Fates somehow managed to plant him in Keokuk, Iowa.

By: aelfheld

aelfheld — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:29:53 +0000

Guy Fawkes Day. Samhain. All Hallows Eve. Anything to avoid admitting that Hasan’s just another Islamofascist terrorist.

By: Moira Breen

Moira Breen — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:14:02 +0000

Re Guy Fawkes – is that goofball Poonawalla still around, having his goofball portentousness taken seriously? Ah, brings back memories of the Old Blogging Days. You know that old cutesy habit of replacing a “c” or a “qu” with “k” in the names of businesses, e.g., “Kwik Kleen”, “Kleen Kween”, “Kar Kare”, and the still extant “Krispy Kreme”? I recall intrepid Aziz blowing the lid off that! The real meaning of instances of this he saw in Texas? Ku Klux Klan affiliation – or maybe it was just sympathy, but it was all tied up with the Klan and the racism and the glavin somehow. Stone cold serious. There were some other similar howlers the particulars of which I no longer recall. But most ridiculous were the bloggers who you thought had half a brain pulling their chins and treating this patent goofballery with great seriousness. Hmm, wonder why.

Good times, good times.

By: Andrea Harris

Andrea Harris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:49:58 +0000

Well that’s just lovely.

By: kc

kc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:56:06 +0000

Somethng amiss in Orlando, too…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting

By: kc

kc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:27:57 +0000

Brilliantly put, Andrea. “PRE-PTSD” is just inspired! Thank you!