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Southern bashing - despite living in Chicago, I'm probably more Southern than you, Dave. I grew up in East Tennessee, so I know the difference between a hillbilly and a redneck, and one of the people that can give me the first person account of lynching justified from the pulpet is my father. It was only a couple of generations ago - well within living memory - that killing a black man for a small slight was quasi-legal. If you want to have a discussion about racial politics in Southern Mississippi from 1900 to present, I'm loaded for bear, including some less-than-stellar family history (my one-legged, one-armed paternal great-grandfather was not a particularly nice human being even before he lost limbs in separate incidents). I consider myself centrally placed to do all sorts of Southern bashing since I'm related to a bunch of the morons who did the things to deserve the bashing in the first place.
The guy in the video may or may not have done anything other than change his shirt in the wrong place at the wrong time. He could have tried to kill a bunch of people, in which case he should consider himself permanently uninvited to Casa de los Jazz. He may not have, in which case, if he's not an asshole and is fun to be around, he might find himself invited. I don't know him, so at this stage, he's not invited.
Dave, you're suspicious of "those" religious folks based on something that they may not even agree with. There is no central authority in Islam the way that there is in Christianity, so "leaders" are generally self-appointed. Generally the Muslims that are angry with the US are angry for some pretty fucking stupid shit we've done, but they're angry with the US government, not the people.
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