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On Oct 2, 2025 at 6:59:21 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

A man wearing a belt believed to be rigged with explosives, attacked a synagogue in Manchester this morning, killing two people and injuring
three others severely before being killed by armed police. It is
probably no coincidence that this happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest
day on the Jewish calendar.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2703lnww4t

Police have not yet identified the terrorist, although one picture of
the man taken during the attack is in the story. It's hard to be sure
from a single picture taken through grillwork but I wouldn't be terribly shocked if he turned out to be a practitioner of the Religion of Peace.

"In tonight's news, the UK imported a radical Muslim whose first name is
Jihad. You'll never guess what happened next."


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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:48:52 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

The terrorist has now been identified: one Jihad Al-Shamie, aged 35.

Well, you couldn't get much clearer proof that he was indeed an adherent
of the Religion of Peace. Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, etc. simply
don't name their sons "Jihad".

You are of course assuming (with little justification that I can see)
that his parents named him "Jihad". Given what the word means I would
tend to doubt it.
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 22:41:07 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

Can a Jew just go down the street to the Catholic Church and do a confession >and get absolution for those?

That would surprise me. If he happened to catch the priest on a quiet
day the priest might well talk to him - your call on whether the talk
was 'counselling" or not.

Before I met my wife she went to a rabbi and talked to him for about
1/2 an hour and at the end of it the rabbi told her that since she
wasn't engage to marry a Jewish boy there wasn't any real need to rush
so he gave her several books on Judaism to read and was told to come
back in 5-6 months if she still felt that way.

Which is rather odd given apparently the priest at her parents' church
(where she had been raised) would only let us get married in the
Catholic church in the foyer at least 60' from the high altar since I
was not Catholic - while someone both of us knew was on paper Catholic
and was married at the high altar even though she was pregnant at the
time... so apparently being Protestant was a greater sin than
premarital sex in the priest's eyes.
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On 2025-10-10 7:52 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:48:52 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

The terrorist has now been identified: one Jihad Al-Shamie, aged 35.

Well, you couldn't get much clearer proof that he was indeed an adherent
of the Religion of Peace. Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, etc. simply
don't name their sons "Jihad".

You are of course assuming (with little justification that I can see)
that his parents named him "Jihad". Given what the word means I would
tend to doubt it.

If he was born with a traditional Muslim name and then changed it to
Jihad when he was old enough, that would seem at least as worrying as
him being given the name at birth. That should have attracted the
attention of the authorities.

But I suppose it's conceivable that "Jihad" was a nickname that he used
widely because he thought his real name wasn't sufficiently intimidating
in which case his real name may be more innocuous. But I'm not seeing
anything that even hints that "Jihad" is not the name on his birth certificate.
--
Rhino
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