Application of sharia law by country"

[Hypoxia]

But that's not because we're islamophobes or "racists".
- Because, among other things, these are a constant reminder of the chain of events (9/11 - bombing of Middle East - Isl and so on) that led to the fact that the world that we grew up in has ceased to exist.
- Some of us are still trying to make sense of the changes that we've experienced and to construct a coherent narrative that fits Our (Not other people's) worldview.

I was born just after the transistor was invented and before DNA's structure was spied. I grew up with the civil rights revolt, and hiding under desks in A-bomb drills. (My school was five miles from a prime target.) I was whizzing through a junior-high typing class (most useful training I ever had) when JFK's shooting was announced. Politics and culture of the 1960s were revolutionary compared to what went before. But 2015 is more like 1965 than 1945. I see a strong continuity, or maybe only a string of small but significant breaks in the timeline.

I've gone from 10-inch 78-RPM records and three-inch tape reels to a zillion gigabytes on my thumbnail-sized MP3 player. I used to travel with boxes of maps and books; now I only need a tablet. Formerly hidden information is now easily accessible; the world's archives are pretty much wide-open. And political moderates have gone extinct. Coincidence, or... ??

The pre-9-11 world is gone -- fuck, it died when SCOTUS threw the 2000 election. The pre-2008-crash world is still pretty much here but with even more inequality and partisanship. Tromp seems to be destroying the pre-2016 world single-handed. Most of these changes are enough to piss-off and/or ruin almost everybody. That's where I see us headed -- into permanent road rage. Mslims are the current roadkill.

It seems that the more we think we know, the angrier we are. When will the crowds of torch-bearing peasants storm the rulers' castles?