In a familiar story around here, a couple of Somali Muslims on their way to Saudi Arabia were detained at the Minneapolis St. Paul airport. One was an imam. (Cue Katherine Kersten.) Some questions about a mosque in Minneapolis and its rumored connection to training fighters was mentioned.
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Depends on who's doin' the preachin', I suppose.
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22 Reader Comments
9:21 am
Should this surprise anyone nowadays? Especially after recent reports of Twin Cities Somali youth going back to Somalia? Besides, similar detainments happen elsewhere, too:
FBI team detained at Mumbai airport
11:33 am
Reading the Star Tribune comments section is a good way to lose all hope for mankind in a short amount of time.
11:37 am
I lost hope for humanity a long time ago. The vast majority of people are selfish moronic nincompoops.
11:39 am
There aren’t any comments that I could find.
Did you tattle on somebody, Kurtis?
11:43 am
I’m no tattletale. Max, Rat called me a tattletale!
11:47 am
Don’t call names, Rat.
11:54 am
Don’t make me turn the internet around, you two.
2:34 pm
[Deleted for containing hateful epithets.]
3:08 pm
I can’t tell if Frank Fusco (not verified) was deleted by Max or if he wrote the comment meaning that the Strib deleted the comments due to hateful epithets.
3:13 pm
I deleted Frank’s comment.
3:14 pm
Why are the comments so small?
3:18 pm
Well, thanks Max. You should find a way to denote that. Except in a different topic, you wouldn’t have to because I would get it. this one was about possibly deleted comments, so I was confused.
3:20 pm
I’ll add my initials in when I moderate comments. Like this:
[HEY! STOP BEING SUCH A JOIK! --m.s.]
3:23 pm
@Dougie_D,
Sorry about that. I finally had time to style the comments. I hopefully just fixed it. I’m guessing you use Internet Explorer 6?
3:23 pm
Cue the censorship shit fit…
3:26 pm
Well, in case anybody wants to go there, the rules for commenting here are posted. I moderate with a light hand, but I have zero tolerance for hate language, and it will be deleted as soon as I see it.
3:30 pm
Yep IE 6.0.2900.2180 No other choice here at work.
3:32 pm
Fixed!
3:33 pm
Glad to hear it!
I promise that I’ll run my changes through IE6 before I make them from now on. I keep thinking I remember all the quirks, but then I clearly don’t. :S
3:35 pm
Not a huge deal. I use Chrome mostly at home or Firefox 3.0.
3:39 pm
Also, can you add religion to the hate speech guideline?
7:18 pm
Yep IE 6.0.2900.2180 No other choice here at work.
That’s sad.