{"id":60418,"date":"2016-09-29T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60418"},"modified":"2016-09-25T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:42:44","slug":"60418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60418","title":{"rendered":"Ineluctible Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before 6,000 Somali Muslims were imported to St. Cloud, a town of 60,000 souls, nobody with a knife attacking shoppers while quizzing them on their religion or talking about Allah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">One might be tempted to think that the first thing led to the second, but that would be an example of the logical fallacy <i>post hoc ergo prompter hoc<\/i>.\u00a0 Fortunately, the media and political leadership wisely avoids drawing any such conclusions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/09\/18\/man-shot-dead-after-stabbing-8-people-in-a-minnesota-mall\/?utm_term=.8328aaf92b18\"><span class=\"s2\">The <\/span><span class=\"s3\">attacker\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s2\">motive may never be known. <\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Even if this does turn out to be an act of Muslim terrorism as the Muslim terrorist group ISIL claims, the terrorist probably was simply another member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/6625\/crying-lone-wolf\"><span class=\"s2\">Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span class=\"s1\">so nothing to worry about, St. Cloud has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/09\/22\/obama-divided-afghan-war-woodward-book.html\"><span class=\"s2\">capacity to absorb more terrorist attacks<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Isn&#8217;t it amazing how tolerant the media and political class get about peoples&#8217; motives, when there&#8217;s a whiff of ethnic\/religious terrorism involved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Before 6,000 Somali Muslims were imported to St. Cloud, a town of 60,000 souls, nobody with a knife attacking shoppers while quizzing them on their religion or talking about Allah. \u00a0One might be tempted to think that the first thing led to the second, but that would be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60433,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60418\/revisions\/60433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}