Stay safe Boston family.

Hope everyone there is safe and sound.  I've been listening to the police scanners for the past 4 hours and following everything on Reddit and google maps.  My thoughts go out to everyone there.

Stay safe

This is crazy! We're currently in lockdown while they conduct searches. I pray that no one else is injured.

Apparently one of the two people involved with the bombing was found and killed in a shootout. The two were brothers and unsurprisingly, Muslim. During the autopsy, they found several trigger devices all over his body. They're searching for the other brother now.

I've been following this on several of the police and Emergency channels for the last 8 hours, watching reddit and twitter feeds from people in the neighbourhood. I can't imagine how stressful this would be for you guys living there and also the servicemen and women trying to hunt them down. I'm confused why Islamic Chechens are attacking America. The pieces are starting to fall into place though, now it makes sense why Russia offered to help in the bombing investigation last week.

I'm confused why Islamic Chechens are attacking America. All I had to hear was, "Islamic" and I was like, "Okay. I'm not surprised."

It's unusual in that the Chechens are generally more interested in causing problems for Russia. I hope they catch him soon.

They got him and he's still alive. Hopefully we'll get some answers now.

I happened to be in Boston today and at one point was bordered by a few black escalades from Maryland. I spotted the Feds. Where's my shirt BlackBeetle? Jokes aside it was a nervous day and I'm glad it's over. Beantown bomber captured. Now all the suburban kids can come into the city green for 4/20 and wonder why HempFest isn't happening (hint, it's scheduled every fall stoner)

I'm glad the brothers are no longer able to kill people.

So these kids had been living in the states for ten years, since their early teens. I wonder if this is a result of bullying or just young kids being influenced by the wrong side of Islam. I'm just glad everyone's safe and hope the families of the victims are looked after.

I have a sister who runs marathons and has ran the Boston. My heart goes out to all the victims. I'm so impressed on how all the citizens pulled together and the swift resolution to the suspect. God bless Boston.

I wonder if this is a result of bullying or just young kids being influenced by the wrong side of Islam. Implying that there's a right side. The majority of Islamics in any Islamic-ruled country are woman-beating, animal-abusing, child-molesting, homophobic, rapist, 3rd world barbarians who are so very violent that a silly cartoon artist can't even so much as draw Muhammad without being threatened with death or violence. Tell an Islamic about the truth of his way of life and you better believe that you and probably your entire family will either be threatened or taken action against with violence, rape, death or all of the above. And when Islamics/Muslims immigrate to another non-islamic country you better believe that rape and hate crimes will go up. Not against Islamic, but by Islamic. Thanks to Islamic immigrants, Sweden has become the 2nd in rank for rape crimes. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/1-in-4-swedish-women-will-be-raped-as-sexual-assaults-increase-500/ You can call what I'm saying hate speech if you want, but really It's just the truth. And you better believe that Islamics HATE hearing or reading the truth about their backwards barbaric ways of life. Regardless of what anyone tells you. There is no such thing as Islamophobia for it is completely rational to hate and/or fear someone who believes in Islam. Especially if you're a woman.

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Viktor, firstly, Islam is a religion, not a person, so Islamic Immigrants do not exist, an Immigrant is from a country (Iran/Iraq/Sudan/Mexico etc), a Muslim is a follower of Islam. Secondly there is a good side to any human being on this earth, whether they are Atheist, Agnostic (<---this is Elth right here), Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Sheik, Buddhist, Zoroastrian or some other obscure religion or philosophy. Regardless of what anyone tells me, I base my opinions on first hand knowledge or facts, not articles on the Internet written by pseudo-journalists and bloggers. There is also a bad side to many human beings on this earth, from every culture and religion, nobody is exempt. What you are saying is hate speech, and woman-beating, animal abusing, child-molesting, homophobic, rapists can be found among every culture and they aren't always associated with a religion; Klu Klux Klan are a prime example of this. Here is a more recent example: Norway Main article: 2011 Norway attacks In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island. As a result of his attacks, 151 people were injured, and 77 killed. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500 page manifesto detailing that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader". Analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism, whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label What has Islam ever done for mankind? Here is some Trivia for you: Muhammad Bin Musa Alkhwarazmi is considered to be one of the founders of algebra. The word ‘algorithm’ is a corruption of his name or the name of the province in Afghanistan, where he was born. He used the ‘cipher’ (zero), that was devised in India some centuries earlier. The very word ‘zero’ is a derivative of the Arabic ‘sefr’ or its close cousin, the ‘cipher’. His treatise on ‘Algebra and Equations’ (Kitab-ul-Hisab-wal-jabr-wal-Muqabala) was taught for centuries in European Universities. In his book, which is available in an English translation, (Pakistan Hejira Council, Islamabad), using analytical geometry, he proved various Islamic laws of inheritance. Muslims, were hence, the pioneers in analytical geometry. Al-Battani excelled in trigonometry. The words ‘sine’, ‘cosine’ and ‘tangent’, which enjoys millions of instances each year in scientific literature, are derivatives of Arabic words, coined by Muslims scientists. For example, ‘sine’ is a corruption of the word ‘jeib’. Muslims, for the first time introduced the concept of inverse trigonometric functions. The science of chemistry was started for the first time by Muslims – the word ‘alchemy’ is a recognition of this fact. Jabir-bin-Hayyan is recognised as the father of chemistry. He preceded Boyle by about 700 years. Muslims chemists invented nitric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acids, salt of nitre, salt of peter, calcium carbonate and numerous other salts. They invented laboratory analytical techniques like distillation, sublimation, calcination, crystallisation, to mention a few. Many modern laboratory glassware apparatus owe their designs to Muslim geniuses. Muslims, were not simply blind followers of the medicinal traditions of the Greek Galen and Hippocrates. Ar-Rhazi wrote a whole critique on Galen’s anatomy. This originality of Muslim medicine lead Harvard University’s George Sarton and an authority on the history of science to state that modern medicine is entirely and Islamic development. Ibn-e-Sina (980-1037) alone wrote 246 books including the "Qanun-fit-Tub" (Canon of Medicine). Canon and its author remained the supreme medical leaders of the world from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. Even the oldest English poet, Chaucer has mentioned his name, amongst the names of three other Arab physicians in his verse. The names of Rhazi and Ibn-e-Sina became household throughout Europe. Is it judicious to forget them now, when we remember the names of luminaries of comparable and lesser influence? One of the world’s oldest and scientific hospitals was built in 707 A.D. by Caliph Walid Ibn-e-Abdul-Malik in Damascus. Moreover, Muslims had instituted the world’s oldest apothecary shops and the earliest schools of pharmacy. On that final note, I think this thread has come to an end. Feel free to reply, but I think we should continue this in private as we risk offending people. This thread is not about Islam, it is about well wishes to those that were caught up in the madness on Friday morning.

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There is good and bad in every relgion. Look at the early catholics. Inquistion anyone? Then lets not forget our pilgrims...Witch hunts anyone? It may surprise alot of people to learn that under the ottoman(Muslim) empire all....all relgions were tolerated. You were able to worship how you wished without fear of persecution for it. Modern day relgion has problems also. Look at Jonestown and how many people died there from a religous nut. Then we have Waco texas. What I am trying to point out is do not judge people on bases of belief. There are intolerant, bigots in every religon everywhere.

I think the points have been well made and this is the end of the discussion.