I classify this story as "making a mountain out of a molehill."
In fact, less than a week ago there was another story posted on FR mentioning this same incident.
Click the video on this page and you'll get a different perspective on this story.
Here's a guy in broad daylight wearing his yellow robe caught on video searching for a few coins at a few prayer offering spots at a shrine. Looks like he didn't find any money so he tips over the wooden box.
Is the guy eccentric? Yes. Has he lost his marbles? Maybe. But this wouldn't qualify as significant crime in Atlanta, Georgia where armed youths are robbing convenient stores and people are getting shot.
Where's Humble Gunner when we need him? Looks like these recent stories were posted by Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch affiliated publications and on-line journals.
I have no bones to pick with Spencer. Sounds like he's done work for the CIA, FBI, and has written a lot of books on global Islamic terrorism. Steve Bannon has said some good words about him.
But I see no need for alarm over the HIGHLY SELECTIVE and CONTROLLED immigration that Japan's government does. My wife, a former Japanese national, and I were intensely screened before they gave us a residency visa two years ago.
I'd like to hear Spencer's perspective on the peace loving and civil Muslim populations of countries like Indonesia and Bengla Desh. I've met some of these foreigners here and to a person they are respectful, calm, and intelligent people, some of whom have mastered multiple languages.
Many of the Southeast Asian immigrants to Japan are being brought in to provide health care for the elderly and other kinds of personal care. I also befriended a university student from Bengla Desh who's actively working on the chemistry to economically test for clean water in his home country.
Moreover, Japan is a country that has retained its CIVILITY. When you look around here, it's like you've time-traveled to America in the 1950s or early 60s. And yet, Japan is a highly modern and digital society but it hasn't lost the respect that citizens have for one another -- or to foreigners.
But I see no need for alarm over the HIGHLY SELECTIVE and CONTROLLED immigration that Japan's government does. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I agree.
We also know that the Imperial family of Japan are generally close friemds with the royals of Saudi Arabia and Jordan.This also might influence the admission of otherwise non-admissable Muslims who might wish to wage their personal jihad while in Japan.
One might not think it generally , but behind the bamboo curtain Japan is a deeply respectful country because of its various views about the sacred aspect of Shinto gods. Essentially the Japanese believe that each of us carries a spark of such divinity (kami) and so the Japanese are most circumspect about stigmatizing any foreign national because they seek harmony among all things.
However if jihad is being waged in Japan, any harm done will either be handle swiftly and accurately in a very mannerly way by the Japanese police agencies or alternatively by the yakuza. This, even though some of those who might offend are under the umbrella of Arab friends of the Japanese Imperial family.
Japan is likely the most virtuous place anyone could live during these times.Radical Islamists might not like that fact of harmony ampng men and women, or even find it offensive that Japan is that way, because only Islam is supposed to be able to bring about such mannely harmony and civility within human society.
