Huh. One more reason to not go to New York, I suppose. I have some difficulty imagining the Al Qaeda flag being so prominently flown here in Utah. Or in Texas.
Especially Texas.
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One sign that someone can chose to see as hopeful, if that someone is a wildly optimistic sort: it seems that most of the time when you see Jihadi whackjobs spouting off some of the more extremist nutjobbery, such as the several in this video, they almost never have American accents. This is, I believe, due to the fact that most people are not by their very nature stupid and crazy, and thus most people, even ones born into a cruel and backwards religious ideology, come to understand that the US is on the whole a pretty good place, and they’d just as soon not blow it up.
And for those who proudly hoist that black flag, they should keep in mind that it’s not the only black flag in history. As Mencken wrote:
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.