tremblethedevil2011

HUNTER S. THOMPSON IS READING MY BOOK FROM THE GRAVE, HOLY SHIT!! I KNEW YOU WEREN'T REALLY DEAD YOU SHIFTY BASTARD!

I honestly don't know enough about each specific country to speculate too much about what's going to happen in the region now. I mean I really don't know shit about Libya's demographics or history, but for Egypt and Syria I'd have to guess that the upcoming reforms are going to strengthen the groups who want their nations to become more "Islamic."

Although what exactly "Islamic" means is going to be fungible. The example I use a lot is that in the Arab world showing cleavage is pretty much verboten, but in American cleavage is totally fine everywhere. However if you go an inch lower and show a nipple, everyone freaks the fuck out.

While in Europe, nipples are all over the fucking place. There's a spectrum of morality that's going to be evolving, there's nothing in the Bible that addresses why cleavage in public is fine but nipples aren't.

I don't think Al-Qaeda has been a concrete group for a really long time, if anything it's pretty close to our own Anonymous.

I guess the bottom line is that even one of the godfathers of fundamental Islam took more issue with the worship of wealth and sexuality in the West than anything else - not freedom in and of itself. In a sense the wackos in America who flip out when they see a nipple on TV are pretty much in line with many fundamentalist Muslims.

What's your take on al-Qaeda actually being much more of an "-Ism" than any cohesive group? Do you think it's best classified as something akin to the IRA or Shining Path, or more of an ideology like Marxism where anyone can just declare themselves an adherent?

Kiss the right motherfucking asses. Everything in the government happens based on personal favoritism, if your boss or the person who write your performance reports is a crazy cat lady, go out and buy yourself a bunch of cat figurines and start photoshopping yourself into pictures working at a rehab clinic for 'nip addicted cats or something.

The entire book isn't about crime and drugs, it's only in the last third that I get into the War on Drugs and how it's created the same system of State Shells (when a lack of government leads to gaps that gangs fill) that's lead to terrorist groups like the Shining Path and Hezbollah in other nations.

As far as I know there isn't a book about American criminology that talks about the history of the Middle East and also ties it into the formation of modern Islamic terrorist groups in the '70s and then links all of that to what's going on in America right now.

So far as I've been able to find, no one else has tied the idea that terrorist groups are incredibly similar to modern American gangs with this much depth and detail.

What's your take on the recent expose that alleged the FBI trains agents to think mainstream Muslims are violent and radical?