From the "Oh, Come Now" files....
QuoteUAE warns travelers not to wear traditional dress after Emirati visitor is arrested in Ohio
Washington Post
At a time when foreigners in Western garb are being singled out for deadly attacks by the Islamic State and other militants, the United Arab Emirates has warned its citizens against wearing traditional Muslim clothing while traveling in the West.
Officials in the UAE, responding to an incident in which an Emirati tourist was arrested in Ohio, cautioned Sunday that travelers from the Arab country should "refrain from wearing the national dress" in public places while visiting the West "to ensure their safety" and said that women should abide by bans on face veils in European countries, according to news reports from Dubai.
The tourist, Ahmed al-Menhali, was detained at gunpoint last week in Avon, Ohio, after a suspicious hotel clerk alerted relatives, who called 911. Menhali, a 41-year-old businessman, was in the United States for medical treatment and tried to book a hotel in the Cleveland suburb. He was wearing a flowing white headscarf and a full-length white robe at the time. Police accosted and handcuffed him outside the hotel entrance while he was speaking on his phone in Arabic. He later told the broadcaster Al Jazeera that the clerk said he was "pledging my allegiance to ISIS," referring to the Islamic State.
A police video posted by a Cleveland TV channel showed an officer loading his rifle and running toward Menhali, while others shouted at him and held him down, according to Al Jazeera. He collapsed at one point, apparently feeling ill, and emergency workers took him to a hospital. He had previously suffered a stroke and was not armed.
Police and town officials later apologized for the incident, calling it "very regrettable." But such an incident is hardly surprising amid growing alarm in the wake of the recent mass terrorist attacks in Orlando and San Bernardino, Calif., in which the Muslim attackers pledged loyalty to the Islamic State.
The Ohio incident came to light one day after terrorists in Bangladesh assaulted a coffee shop and bakery in a cosmopolitan district of the capital, Dhaka, reportedly singling out and shooting Western patrons while sparing local Muslims. The gunmen, who were wearing jeans and were clean-shaven, reportedly told restaurant staff members that Western visitors were undermining Islam by wearing revealing clothes and drinking alcohol. The attack left about 30 people dead.
Westerners face significant dangers in Muslim countries, their appearance making them easy targets for Islamist militants. In Tunisia, Afghanistan and Indonesia, Muslim militants have increasingly sought out Western tourists and facilities for attack, aiming to drive out other Westerners and shore up their religious appeal.
Muslim activist groups in the United Sates expressed alarm at the Ohio incident, calling it another example of bigotry and heightened Islamophobia. Other observers pointed out that the two attacks in Florida and California were carried out by Muslims who wore ordinary Western clothing, spoke English and were established in local immigrant communities. But many people posting on social media defended the police response in Ohio and blamed Islam and Muslims' religious beliefs for rising global chaos.
"I am very sympathetic to Muslims, but come on," one person commented on a news story about the incident. "I feel bad this gentleman became ill. However, because of actions of MUSLIMS. . . then yes everyone is gonna have to pay at least for a while."
Here's a really fun video of the police being all community policey about it--
https://youtu.be/m0AnvrIOu8Q
Gotta love how much time he wastes fucking around with the completely unnecessary assault rifle getting out of the car.
That is pathetic.
But then, I expect stupidity from Ohioans.
What is his business?
Quote from: dps on July 03, 2016, 05:12:24 PM
That is pathetic.
But then, I expect stupidity from Ohioans.
Avon, OH: population 22,000. Police department can have M4s with laser sights issued to patrol, but it can't update its own website's press releases since March (http://www.cityofavon.com/172/Police). Fucking monkeys.
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
If only daesh were so comically inept as to go around everywhere in traditional arabic dress
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
Yeah I though I'd leave that out.
People could just pretend it wasn't happening and even if elected they could just stick their fingers in the ears and say la-la every time his name was mention; just blank it out completely for four years. :)
Good.
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
I prefer a story like this, unfortunate as it is, to the stories we had right after 9-11 about Sikhs getting murdered because some brain-dead dickwads mistook them for Muslims.
Nobody told Avon PD Team America: World Police is not a training video.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Really. Who said that?
Quote from: dps on July 03, 2016, 06:12:27 PMI prefer a story like this, unfortunate as it is, to the stories we had right after 9-11 about Sikhs getting murdered because some brain-dead dickwads mistook them for Muslims.
Don't worry, those stories are on their way. It's only a matter of time.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 03, 2016, 06:38:03 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Really. Who said that?
I, just now.
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Election =/ nonbinding referendum
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2016, 07:28:51 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Election =/ nonbinding referendum
Don't worry. Its just something Brain said
Well that's what happens when you visit flyover country, especially if you fail the paper bag test.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2016, 07:28:51 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Election =/ nonbinding referendum
Tomato, potato.
It is a stupid way to dress.
Quote from: The Brain on July 04, 2016, 04:17:20 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2016, 07:28:51 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 03, 2016, 06:30:47 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 03, 2016, 06:01:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2016, 05:53:15 PM
I don't know this seems small beer compared to our referendum vote, come on America you're gonna have to pull better stupid shit that this stuff, if you're to match us Brits. :bowler:
We're *this* close to electing the Vegas act of your nightmares as President, man. Don't even fucking try to go there.
It's OK, many Americans think that you can just ignore an election result you disagree with. :)
Election =/ nonbinding referendum
Tomato, potato.
Swedish cooking is that good?
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 04, 2016, 08:39:10 AM
It is a stupid way to dress.
Yeah wrapping yourself too tightly in the flag is a trip hazard.
Quote from: mongers on July 04, 2016, 01:22:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 04, 2016, 08:39:10 AM
It is a stupid way to dress.
Yeah wrapping yourself too tightly in the flag is a trip hazard.
Probably a lot easier to take a dump in a parking lot. Take note when you're peeling down your cycling capris to piss in somebody's yard, banana hammock.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 04, 2016, 01:38:08 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 04, 2016, 01:22:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 04, 2016, 08:39:10 AM
It is a stupid way to dress.
Yeah wrapping yourself too tightly in the flag is a trip hazard.
Probably a lot easier to take a dump in a parking lot. Take note when you're peeling down your cycling capris to piss in somebody's yard, banana hammock.
It was a ditch. Come on now!