Posted on 02/21/2008 5:29:03 AM PST by MindBender26
Specifically, it’s centered on the Computer Engineering department. The same building I went into and out of for five years getting my engineering degree. Freaking scary.
saw-it-off-and-cut-it-away.
Over coffee, my older brother would say (way back then), after reading the paper: "these radical muslims...they're going to be big trouble."
If you do the math you can gather that he was definitely a voice in the wilderness.
Benjamin Baines Jr is the name he was born with.
I would bet that his friends have called him a different name for years, probably one with “Muhammad” or “Islam” in it.
Boxcutter in Hollowed-Out Book at TIAML/NJ
He answered, “No, the Sovs are rational people.”
He dropped his hand to the ME and said “I worry about the ones who go to bed at night listening to Allah.”
I am just curious what other situation (besides hijacking a plane) would someone carry a box cutter in a hollowed out book?
Reposted, as few outside Tampa Bay area know what TIA is. It’s local lingo. Even airport code is not TIA but TPA.
Hmmmm....funny how this story wasn't out there til James Lilleks mentioned it on Hugh Hewitt yesterday!! I see NO info on Benjamin Baines Jr!!
A man ahead of his times.
“Tampa is hotbed of radical Islam in Florida. It’s centered on the USF campus.”
Right..Also in some of the higher professions.
Anyway, a 10-15 year stretch in a Feedral Prnitentiary should enhance this fellow’s rap career..Kinda make it more realistic..Wonder how the inmates will like Rap in Farsi ?
Hooray to the TSA employee watching the machine! America’s finest.
Hey, you never know when you'll be called on to do some last-minute drywall! :0)
yes; and even more so, it's a hotbed for weirdos.
(1) "Fear Itself" is probably the Walter Mosley novel - a "pro-black" mystery featuring the Shaftesque protagonist Fearless Jones.
(2) "Muhammad In The Bible" is probably the book written by Abdul-Ahmad Dawud, an apostate Iranian Catholic convert to radical Islam who falsely claims to have been a bishop.
(3) "The Noble Qu'ran" is probably the Saudi edition of the Koran for English-speakers.
These books suggest that Mr. Barnes was raised Christian, acquired racial "consciousness" and became radicalized, and was targeted by radical Muslim missionaries using Dawud's book as a tool.
My guess is he would not have carved out the interior of a novel revered by black Americans as a book featuring a "strong, conscious black man" like Fearless Jones unless he was a devout Muslim who had come to believe that the book - with its sex scenes and Fearless Jones' alcohol consumption - was immoral and worthless and that its half-Jewish author was suspect.
(5) It is considered embarrassing in hiphop circles to write out your lyrics and memorize them from paper.
"(4) My guess . . . "
Funny that the article doesn’t mention a description or ethnicity of this person.
I’m guessing he probably could pass for Leif Erickson - how about you?
“Tampax Box Cutter Hidden In Book”
1. My dyslexia must be severe today?
2. I’m not getting enough sleep?
3. Working to hard?
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