Did Neo-Nazis attack Muslim students in prayer yesterday at Ohio State University?

@TheHorse (218881)
Walnut Creek, California
November 29, 2016 2:43am CST
I was so dang busy yesterday that I didn't really get to listen to the news as I usually do. I heard that some several Muslim mosques received threatening letters from an anonymous individual saying that "Trump is going to do to you what Hitler did to the Jews." Pretty disgusting. The report said that the FBI is being called in to investigate. And I heard that Neo-Nazis are disguising themselves under the name "alt-Right" and calling for God knows what. Elimination of blacks, Jews and Muslims (and maybe Catholics) from America? How do they plan to carry this out? And aren't blacks, Jews, Muslims and Catholics a part of the tapestry that is America? And then I heard something about an attack at Ohio State University that left eleven people wounded. And the attacker dead. I'll have to check that one out tomorrow. I'm too damn tired to look it up tonight. I lectured, gave my exam, and made it home in a daze after another 14-hour day. Has the world gone mad?
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@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
29 Nov 16
The world has always been, and I suspect always will be, mad. Humans just don't like differences. We seek out differences, however slight, and use them as hooks on which to hang our hatred. Before the advent of modern communications and travel it was village against village, tribe against tribe, Shia against Sunni, Protestant against Catholic. Now, thanks to instantaneous communications and global travel, we can hate on a global scale. The further away someone is, geographically and culturally, the more we feel entitled to hate them. I fear for our future.
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@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
30 Nov 16
@TheHorse Me too. But whichever way I look I see stupidity, ignorance and intolerance.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I'm trying hard not to fear for our future.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
@WorDazza It's there on the right. It's there on the left. It's there among Muslims. It's there among Trump supporters. It's there among whites. It's there among blacks. I'd move to a Monastery in Tibet, but I'd probably get blowed up.
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@vandana7 (100288)
• India
29 Nov 16
You find it difficult to accept but the feelings exist..and are dormant in most people. The feelings are not extinct, and will continue to be there as long as people can perceive color and differences with their eyes, ears, and brains. So it is not about the world gone mad...it is time to acknowledge existence of such feelings and begin working from there..Ok...so what ...you are different...and I don't feel that inclined to be friends with you...hmm...the reason I am friends with you is because of laws, and because I need this this this from you...that makes me darned selfish I know...but that is the truth. Now coming to why I don't have as much affinity for you as I have for xyz is simply because I feel threatened by you. Hmmm..you may be physically strong ...or inclined to be financially strong ...so I feel that threat internally...animal in me wants to protect me. Now, I want to say I am an evolved being...so I accept you...not because law tells me to do so, or because moral science or society tells me to do so, but because I want to consider myself as superior to others and so I accept you...and it is again a selfish thought but I am fine with that selfishness because it has something to do with my self esteem. Moreover, by accepting you.........I ensure no upheavals in my life and those of my loved ones. Phew...what I am trying to say is...pushing those feelings under the carpet does not help. It is a temporary cure. People need to face what they actually think or feel, even if it is not ok in the society, and work up to the desired social level. Anything forced down the gullet will obviously not go down too well, and resurface periodically. But when I accept it as my decision, I learn to live with it.
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@vandana7 (100288)
• India
29 Nov 16
@WorDazza .. Pretty much like when there are power outages, thieves are going to get busy. LOL
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@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
29 Nov 16
Well said. I've always said you can't legislate away racism, sexism, homophobia etc. etc. etc. That way lies resentment and resistance.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
That's very true. That's why I don't like Political Correctness. I don't really care if someone is prejudiced against blacks or Jews or whites or gays or straights. I can still work with them. And I can choose not to be friends with them. Or be friends with them and laugh at our differences. But if their prejudices turn into racism, or any other kind of -ism, and affect either my bottom line or my personal safety, then I'm not OK with it.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
29 Nov 16
I am so saddened by these news of killing . It seems that since Trump became the president of US , a lot of people are complaining violently . I hope this thing could be stopped once and for all .
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
30 Nov 16
@TheHorse As always .
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
Complaining violently doesn't help.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
29 Nov 16
One of the most evil groups on the planet are Neo Nazis. They are total racists and their thinking needs to be extinct. And for them to say that Trump is going to get rid of certain groups is insane. I really do not think Trump would do that.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
30 Nov 16
@TheHorse That is true.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
@LeaPea2417 I'm assuming my black and Jewish friends are safe for now.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
Trump is mostly after illegal Mexicans and poorly vetted Muslim immigrants.
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@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
29 Nov 16
Yes, it seems that the world has gone mad and I cannot understand all this hate. We are going in the wrong direction and the politics who spit hate are not helping.
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@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
30 Nov 16
@TheHorse I know, this is happening in several countries around the world. Some of those who lead the countries are not doing their best to keep the peace among different countries.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
Agreed. But Trump's bile resonated with almost half of the US population.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Dec 16
@LadyDuck What can they do?
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
29 Nov 16
The racist's are coming out of the woodwork, and they're feeling empowered.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I don't think they've ever gone away.
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
29 Nov 16
Neo-Nazis are disguising themselves under the name "alt-Right" + several Muslim mosques received threatening letters from an anonymous individual + attack at Ohio State University that left eleven people wounded = Neo-Nazis attack Muslim students in prayer yesterday at Ohio State University ???? Is that how we are manufacturing news these days?
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I was just inferring who attacked whom based on the order of the stories on radio news. It turns out it wasn't a en-Nazi attack at Ohio State. It was an 18-year-old student.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Dec 16
yes I sometimes wonder if it has g nde mad nolonger save anywhere not in schools notin colleges or universities this is scary
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Jan 17
No place is safe.
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
30 Nov 16
The attack at OSU was a muslim Refugee that was brought here in 2014....He ran his car into students, and then tried to kill them with a knife.....He was shot by a campus police officer...What happened was a terror attack by a muslim .......another attack because our vetting system does not work......
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
1 Dec 16
What you say is true.
@topffer (42156)
• France
29 Nov 16
I never heard of Nazis attacking Catholics, as Hitler was himself a Catholic. We had a few mosques tagged with xenophobic comments after the attacks in France last year, but thanks God nothing bad happened, and everybody knows that, except a few extremists, the Muslim community is peaceful. I suppose that it is another consequence of the election of DT. Very sad.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
29 Nov 16
@TheHorse I do not know who was David Duke, but I understand. KKK is typically a caricature of a far right party.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I was thinking more of the Ku Klux Klan, with which David Duke was affiliated.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
@topffer I believe he was "Grand Dragon" of the KKK for awhile.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Nov 16
I have decided that I am going stop calling them alt right, they are Nazi's.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
There are some creepy people involved, like David Duke, I think.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
29 Nov 16
OH dear what a crazy world we live in. I cannot understand why people just can not get on with one another. Why are they filled with so much hatred? It is ridiculous. Oh yes and a warning. Don't over do things at work take it easy!
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I'll give it my best shot.
@inter4 (319)
• Nanjing, China
29 Nov 16
I think if the president-select take his policy into action ,it will be a disaster for people who live in America illegally. And I hope Mr.Trump think twice before he does what he said.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
@inter4 I heard talk today of deporting those illegals with criminal records. I'm not for discrimination of any sort, but I am for longer sentences for violent criminals. As for the kid who tried to kill eleven people, I don't know what to think. He fits into Trump's narrative.
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
If gave them a way to obtain citizenship, could he convert them to Republican voters?
@inter4 (319)
• Nanjing, China
30 Nov 16
@TheHorse Maybe. Some of those families have been living in America for several ten years, they have little or even no connection with their original country now.If they are forced to live America, they will have nowhere to go.
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@justansh (27)
30 Nov 16
I live in a country where more than 35% of the population follow Islam. i clearly stay away from all religious beliefs. I have had my best friends and well wishers to be the ones following Islam. It's simply wrong to even think of terminating a race based on their religious beliefs. And about people being right or wrong, that solely depends on the person not their religion. in every religion there are some right and some wrong. How i wish we had a world beyond any religion where no 2 religions existed. the only religion existed should have been humanity.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
I think that anyone who follows a "true" religion will believe in love, compassion, kindness, and helping the poor. It doesn't matter what that religion is "called."
@celticeagle (166997)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Nov 16
This is horrible. And the sad thing is Trump isn't saying a word one way or the other.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I gather the guy who did the attack at Ohio State wasn't a Neo-Nazi after all.
@skysnap (20153)
29 Nov 16
that is indeed sad.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
It turned out to be a young student, a refugee from Somalia, who committed the atrocities at Ohio State, not Neo-Nazis.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
29 Nov 16
I simply don't know what to say. I have not paid much attention to the news while I was busy under my rock.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
A good place to be.
@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Nov 16
If the world hasn't gone mad already I think it might be on its way.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Nov 16
This latest attack fits right into Trump's narrative.
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@Dena91 (16636)
• United States
29 Nov 16
Yes, sadly the world is getting worse and worse. The one who attacked was a Muslim student with duel citizenship here and from Nigeria. Don't know what triggered the assaults. Thankful the police man was there within a minute of him starting his rampage and that he ended it. He told him to stop and drop his weapon and didn't so the police shot him.I haven't heard of any of the students bothering other ones but that's not to say it didn't happen. The evilness within man's heart is frightening. No one is to blame but the ones with the hatred of other people in their heart. I don't blame skin color, religious affiliation, or anything else we want to be prejudice about.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
People can always find someone else to blame if the need to. I thought the student attacker turned out to be a refugee from Somalia.
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@Kandae11 (55036)
29 Nov 16
Interesting times ahead - especially in America.
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@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Nov 16
I think we will survive. But I'm nervous.