Pledge of Allegiance In Arabic Polarizes New York High School

Some stupid principal in Pine Bush, New York, decide that it would be a cool thing to have students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic, of all things, for national Foreign Language Week. Not sure what possessed Aaron Hopmayer to think it was okay to do that, but naturally the event has become a point of contention dividing people between those that think it was flat out wrong, and those that believe one shouldn't discriminate. I'm sure we know where on the political spectrum each of those individuals stands.

The morning's regularly scheduled announcements included the Arabic reading of the pledge. According to students, the announcement was greeted by catcalls and angry denunciations in classrooms throughout the school by students who felt the reading was inappropriate.

The reading became the subject of angry talk throughout the school and a cascade of tweets both from students who criticized the reading and those who supported it.

The controversy has "divided the school in half," according to school Superintendent Joan Carbone. She described the reading as "something that was supposed to be good but turned out not to be."

Early Wednesday afternoon, high school Principal Aaron Hopmayer made a building-wide announcement explaining the reading's context and apologizing to students who took offense.

The apology appears to have done little to quell the situation; it may, in fact, have fueled resentment from students who feel the reading was appropriate.

Carbone said she had received complaints from district residents who had lost family members in Afghanistan and from Jewish parents who were equally outraged by the reading.

Even a Muslim leader has said that the Pledge should always be read in English.

Atif Hasan, the treasurer at the Middletown Islamic Center, says yes, schools should be doing more to teach students about different cultures and to promote diversity.

But he said they should not use the Pledge of Allegiance to do so, as Pine Bush High School did on Wednesday.

The Pledge of Allegiance should always be recited in English, he said.

“To me, that’s ludicrous,” Hasan said of the decision to read the pledge in Arabic, even if the intention was to promote diversity. The pledge, he said, “belongs to the land. It should be in English. The language it was created in is the only language in which it should be said. It’s a beautiful pledge.”

Apparently, this isn't the first time Pine Bush has been in the spotlight.

In 2013, Jewish parents sued the district and administrators in federal court, accusing them of being indifferent to chronic anti-Semitic behavior.

Now don't get me wrong, I encourage people to learn other languages, I speak several, but surely they could have read some other announcement.  And the Pledge in a foreign language, come on, how stupid can you get.

Asylum Seeker Matthew Miller Jailed In DPRK Wants To Go Home- DPRK Says He's A Spy

Remember Matthew Todd Miller, or Miller Matthew Todd as the DPRK state news agency called him? The 24-year-old dolt who upon arrival in North Korea tore up his tourist visa and then shouted he was there to seek asylum?  He was arrested, and has since been working 8 hours a day in a prison camp sentenced to 6 years hard labour, but now he wants to go home.

Here are snippets of an official DPRK video posted on YouTube by Russia Today, with videotape of letters he's sent to Michelle Obama, the "Secretary of State", and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since Barack Obama has not responded to his pleas for intervention.

Now, no-one really knows what exactly Miller planned on doing there.  He claims asylum and the DPRK claims he's a spy.

According to the North’s report, which runs to about 1,200 words, Mr. Miller’s acts were done “not because of simple lack of understanding and psychopathology,” but because he was sent by the U.S. to expose North Korea’s human-rights record.

He had hoped to meet Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who has been held by the North for nearly two years, in hopes of winning Mr. Bae’s release, and then joining forces with Mr. Bae to become human-rights activists after leaving prison, KCNA reported.

To do so, he claimed to have documents about U.S. military bases in South Korea stored on his iPad and iPod, the report said.

Of course, one can't trust anything coming out of the DPRK.

If he did indeed have intentions of exposing North Korea's human-rights records, the kid is an idiot for travelling there- we already know how abysmal they are. Did he really think he'd get away with it?  Or he could be a stupid leftist who truly was seeking asylum, and now he's got it, though perhaps not in the manner he had dreamed of, though he is wearing a spiffy hat in the video. And then you certainly don't ask your government for help after you travel, of your own volition, to a hell hole in the hopes of seeking shelter. We don't want you back, darlin.  Or he could be mentally ill, and then you have to feel sorry for him.  Trouble is, who knows wherein lies the truth.

No-one is going to be able to get him out, even if he deserved it.

Chicago ATM Robber Wears Burqa To Hide Dectection

Gildardo Lopez Jr. was afraid he was about to lose his job with Garda Cash Logistics, so the Chicago ATM tech decided he would rob a Chase bank, wearing a burqa, take the money and run off to the Dominican Republic. Trouble is, he asked an employee at the bank for a key that would disable the alarm system.  The worker then told the FBI, and Lopez was arrested.

As FBI agents watched in the early morning hours Thursday, ATM technician Gildardo Lopez Jr. walked up to the Chase bank branch at 14 S. LaGrange Rd. disguised as a woman with a black burqa over his face, a walkie-talkie connected to ear buds and carrying a black suitcase, authorities said.

Lopez slipped on a pair of latex gloves and went inside the bank’s ATM vestibule. When he emerged 15 minutes later, authorities said, the suitcase was stuffed with $168,174 in cash.

“There’s a lot of money in there,” the complaint quoted Lopez as telling FBI agents who took him into custody. Later, while under arrest at the LaGrange police station, he called his older brother and was overheard by an agent saying, “Call Leo, I f****d up,” the charges alleged.

The rest here.

This is one of many reasons why burqas should be banned.

French Mum Gets Fined For Son Jihad's "I Am A Bomb" T-Shirt

Remember Bouchra Bagour, the stupid French mum who went to trial- with her brother Zeyad- for sending her 3-year-old son Jihad to nursery school last September sporting a T-shirt with "I am a bomb" inscribed on the front, and "Jihad, born September 11" (which he was) on the back?

The T-shirt was apparently a gift from the kid's equally stupid uncle, and both were facing jail sentences and fines for "apologie de crime" (condoning, defending a criminal act).  Mommy claimed it was "tactless" but not a provocation, and Zeyad said he had no ulterior motives.

Well the verdict is in: they were both found guilty, but lucked out with suspended jail sentences, and a 2,000 euro fine for Bouchra, and 4,000 euro fine for Zeyad.

Who knows where the truth actually lies, but both were incredibly stupid to send the kid to school wearing something like that.

Offensive, Misogynist, Racist Mountain Dew Ad Pulled By PepsiCo

From the WTF file. The obnoxious, offensive, some call racist and misogynist Mountain Dew commercial that was pulled after so many people complained.

Hip Hop artist Tyler directed and voiced the goat.

PepsiCo has apologized, but what were these people thinking?

Stupid Communists In Chile and NYC Protest In Support Of North Korea

There are still some incredibly stupid people in this world who believe in Communism, in spite of the fact that the system doesn't work. They're usually fools who live in Democratic, Capitalist nations where they're free to do things they would probably be jailed or killed for in a Communist country. Like protesting.  The Chinese government doesn't take kindly to demonstrations, the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 is a testament to that.

These dolts can stand in front of a Whole Foods in New York City in support of the lunatic leadership of North Korea (DPRK), rallying against what they call the recent war threats against the DPRK, without any repercussions. And yes, they seem to think that it's the poor, pudgy man-child Kim Jong-un and his people who are being threatened. I guess they haven't bothered to watch the news coming out of that country. Thank God the NY Red Youth are only a rag tag few.



And then you have these idiots in Chile, protesting in front of the South Korean Embassy, calling the U.S. "Yankee, Fascist Imperialists." A few more than in NYC, but still not many.



First of all, no-one is interested in North Korea other than the fact that the Pillsbury Dough Boy has launched several missiles- unprovoked, is promising more, has his hands on some nuclear weapons, and is threatening the world with them.

As for Yankee imperialism, it was North Korea that invaded South Korea in 1950.  China invaded Tibet and Nepal. The former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and in fact, how was the Soviet Union even created to begin with?

How these fools can support a regime that clearly has a few screws missing, has created a cult of personality in the Kim Jong family dynasty, has the fourth largest army in the world- some 1.2 million strong- has concentration labor camps where whole families are carted off to for life, where the people in the rural areas starve, and where people are executed for insignificant reasons. Take Chong, a worker at an armaments factory who, in 2010, was executed by firing squad for speaking on his cell phone with a friend who had defected to South Korea many years before. Chong made the mistake of telling his buddy what the current living conditions were like, at the time, including the cost of rice. For that he was executed. He also happened to be using an "illegal" Chinese cellphone, and cellphone usage in North Korea, for obvious reasons, is very restricted.

If all these pro-North Koreans are so enamored of the DPRK, I would invite them to move there. Let's see how long they'd last.

Trial For French Mom Who Sent Son "Jihad" To School In "I Am A Bomb" T-Shirt Wraps Up

Interesting case in Avignon, France.

35-year-old Bouchra Bagour (along with her brother Zeyad) could get up to five years in prison and fined £39,000 for sending Jihad (her 3-year-old son) to school sporting a T-Shirt inscribed with "I am a bomb" on the front, and on the back "Jihad, born September 11", which he was. Allegedly.

The charges: "apologie de crime" (condoning, defending crime)

Neither Bouchra or her 29-year-old brother Zeyad thought anything of sending a boy named Jihad to school in that T-Shirt. During her trial Bouchra said, yes it was "tactless", but not meant as a provocation. Zeyad, who purchased the shirt for the boy, said that he too had no ulterior motives, since the boy was born on 9/11.

"It's the day of his birth I wanted to highlight, not the year," he told the court, according to the BBC.

Prosecutors believe it's ".. a direct and scandalous reference" to terrorism.

It could be, or  just two incredibly stupid people.

What mother in the West, Arab-Muslim or not, would call her son Jihad, knowing full well the current connotation of that word?  An organization that has thrown its support behind Bouchra and Zeyad, the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), has said Jihad is common in the Arab-Muslim world, and that it was all an "innocent joke", but Jihad is not common in the West.

I'm not sure what I think about jailing someone for stupidity, considering there are extremists in that country who do deserve to be jailed for truly condoning and inciting violence. We shall see how it all turns out on April 10, when the court is expected to rule in the judgement.

What I find interesting, is that one would expect a mother who calls her son Jihad to be conservatively dressed, which she's not. No hijab, niqab or burqa.

Does she deserve to be a parent, probably not. Who knows what else is going on in that home of hers. Hopefully, if they do get off, police will keep an eye on them. Just in case.

Sources: TelegraphUK,  MSN

Austrian Hostage In Yemen Pleads For His Life In Video

Remember the three fools who were kidnapped in Yemen last December: two males, an Austrian and a guy from Finland, were in Sanaa studying Arabic, the woman (also a Finn) was traveling with the Finnish guy? It appears that Dominik Neubauer, the Austrian, has surfaced in the video below, pleading for his life. He claims his captors have told him he has a week for a ransom to be paid or he'll be executed. With a gun pointed at his neck, he tearfully speaks in both English and German, telling his mum, dad and siblings (I assume) how much he loves them.

“My name is Dominik Neubauer. I’m an Austrian citizen. I’ve been taken hostage on the 21st of December 2012 by a Yemeni tribe. I appeal to the Yemeni government, to the Austrian government and to all the governments concerned and to the European Union to give them what they want. Otherwise, they will kill me seven days after this video is published,” the 26-year-old Arabic studies student said in the video posted on Feb. 21, 2013.

I find it odd, though, that he says he is being held by a Yemeni tribe, and yet the Yemeni goverment has stated that the tribesmen who initially abducted the three foreigners sold them to al-Qaeda. And what's with the pretty floral background? That doesn't seem very militant to me.

The Austrian government believes the video is for real, but has said they will not be blackmailed when they are not sure who exactly is holding him captive.

Both the Finnish and Austrian governments are dealing with the issue.

Perhaps this will convince people that they should not be traveling to dangerous places like Yemen.

Florida Stripper Claims Attacking Motorist Was 'Performance Art'

Obviously drunk, whacked out Florida stripper, Arlene Mena, tells the judge that the little stunt that landed her in court was performance art.

Judge doesn't buy it.

KY Woman Tries To Buy iPads With Food Stamps

In Obama's world people try to buy iPads with food stamps, but they're stupid enough to try it twice.

Apparently, Tracy Browning decided she needed two iPads so she took a little trip to her local Louisville, Kentucky Walmart to purchase them. When her EBT (food stamps) card was declined, she assaulted a clerk as she made a run for it, items in hand.  Then the Darwin Award contender made her way to another Walmart where she attempted to buy a few more. That's when she was arrested.

Stupid Tourists Traveling To Dangerous Places- 2 Finns and 1 Austrian Abducted In Yemen

There are certain countries in the world that should be off limits to anyone with a brain and no pressing need to travel there. In this day and age, many of those are located in the greater Middle East. Some might have been considered relatively safe for tourists prior to the Arab Spring, but not so much any longer. And with al-Qaeda's rise to prominence in some of those countries- Yemen comes to mind- one would think that people would cross those places off their bucket list, but no. I'm sure three people right now are wishing they had done so.

It seems an Austrian and Finnish man, and a Finnish woman are the latest kidnapping victims of al-Qaeda. This time in Yemen. Apparently the three were allegedly abducted by AQAP in Sanaa as they were about to head on down to the southern port of Aden.  The south happens to be a haven for al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), they have kidnapped many before, including Saudi Diplomat Abdallah al-Khalidi who has not been seen since March, but this obviously was not a deterrent to the fearless three.

But these abductions are not recent events. Back in 1998 a bunch of tourists were kidnapped and some killed in the battle between Yemeni troops trying to rescue them and the militants holding them hostage. The UK still advises its citizens not to travel there. So does Australia and the U.S., and I would venture to say most countries have similar travel advisories.

The two males were in Sanaa supposedly studying Arabic. Couldn't they have signed up for Rosetta Stone, or at least found a less dangerous location to learn Arabic?  They do exist. And the female had just arrived in Yemen. An incredibly stupid place for a woman to travel alone, though I assume she must have known the other Finn.

According to a Yemeni official, in  a bid to free imprisoned fellow militants al-Qaeda had said they would abduct foreigners and "stage bank hold ups."

Although I hope the three are freed, they have no-one to blame but themselves.

Source: Al Arabiya

AZ Wife Runs Over Husband For Not Voting- Blamed Him For Obama Win

Initially, I chuckled when I read that a pregnant Arizona woman had run over her husband with her SUV because he had not voted, and blaming him for Barack Obama's win; that is, until I delved further into the story. This is tragic on so many levels.

No, she wasn't on drugs and she wasn't drunk, but 28-year-old Holly Solomon got so angry during an argument with her 36-year-old husband Daniel, when she discovered he had not voted, that she chased him around a Mesa parking lot in her Jeep. When he finally made a run for it, she rammed into him pinning him under the car.

She was convinced her family would suffer under four more years with Obama.  And they probably will, but now her husband is in critical condition, and she is in jail for aggravated assault and domestic violence.

This election angered many people. It was one of the nastiest, most divisive, polarizing  campaigns I can remember.  Before Obama's re-election I witnessed how angry liberals can get. It became extremely vicious during that period of time when everyone thought Mitt Romney had a good chance of winning. But Obama won, and their anger and venom turned to joy. Naturally, our excitement turned to anger and disappointment. Because, yes, we were now faced with four more years of what many of us believe could be the death knell of this great country of ours.

If Holly's family is not doing well, she probably saw her husband not voting as a betrayal. It doesn't excuse what she did, and she obviously has some anger management issues she's going to want to deal with, but it's just tragic.

Ironic, that a president who had promised hope and change, bi-partisanship, and to bring everyone together has managed to create the polar opposite.

Man Gets Romney Logo Tattoo On Face For $15,000 eBay Bid

Would you get a political logo tattooed on your face? Eric Hartsburg of Indiana did. He actually auctioned the side of his mug on eBay, and some anonymous Republican's $15,000  won the bid. So now he has Mitt Romney's logo plastered on the side of his face, a walking billboard for the presidential candidate for the rest of his life, unless he eventually gets it removed. He doesn't seem to mind, though, since the pierced and tattooed Hartsburg happens to be a Republican.

Hartsburg told ABC that he originally did the whole thing as a gag, but that he thinks the tat serves a “purpose” — a purpose other than looking like an idiot.

“I am a registered Republican and a Romney supporter,” Hartsburg said. “I didn’t mind getting this tattoo because it is something that I could live with and it’s something that I believe in.”

“In the beginning it was done for gags and publicity,” he said, “but now I see it as a way to encourage young people to vote. We have so many rights that we don’t utilize, and young people need to exercise that right.”

Hartsburg is now privately auctioning off his forehead. He says he will get just about anything that isn’t racist, offensive or pro-Obama.

“No, no, I would definitely not get an Obama tattoo,” he said. The man has limits, after all.

Glad to see he has at least some self-respect.

Jihadist Omar Khadr To Get $700 From Gay Atheist Canadian's Will

Children are just as capable of murder as adults, and 26-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr proved that when as a young lad of 15 in Afghanistan he threw a grenade that killed an American G.I. and wounded others including blinding one.  Captured in 2002 and transported to Guantanamo, he finally pleaded guilty in 2010, and was sentenced to 8 years, not including time served. Part of that plea agreement was the  possibility of returning to Canada to finish out the rest of his sentence. That just happened, although many Canadians opposed it, and Khadr was repatriated on September 29 to the country where he was born.

But not everyone was against Khadr's return. In fact, 84-year-old Jack Hallam of Salt Spring Island B.C., is leaving the young Muslim terrorist $700 in his will- with the possibility of an increase- for education.  Ironically, being gay and an atheist to boot, the retired Zoologist doesn't seem to care that in Islam people like him are usually killed.  The fool  just feels sorry for this kid who had no remorse for what he did, and comes from a family that is totally radicalized. His pops, after all, was also a jihadist, before he was killed.

Hallam said of Khadr:

"I think the young man has been treated abominably," Hallam told The Canadian Press on Saturday.

"His story just moved me. He was tortured, he was kept in solitary confinement, he had light deprivation."

He just wants the kid to adjust to living in Canada again, although Khadr's family, including his mum, has always been very anti-Western. A lifetime of radical religious indoctrination is going to be very hard to wipe out, and although Khadr says he wants to get into some kind of medical career, I don't doubt he'll be back on the jihadi path in a very short time. According to one of Khadr's Canadian attorneys, John Norris, Khadr apparently received a high school education in Guantanamo starting in 2008 and wants to further his education.

"His American military defence lawyers deserve tremendous credit. And one of them, who I think had visited Canada once or twice, had to learn Canadian geography so he could sit down with Omar and teach him Canadian geography."[snip] Norris said he hopes Khadr will be able to continue his education in Canada so he can have a chance at a normal life.

Dream on.  Khadr will never have a normal life. Norris goes on to criticize both Canada and the U.S. saying:

"There was an abysmal failure on Canada's part to come to his aid and to defend him as a child, which obviously he was and which Canada, on many different fronts, was obliged to do."

"Instead of doing that, they really threw up their hands and said, `We're going to let the American process run its course.

"On the American side, they threw him into a place where no one belongs, an utterly illegal and illegitimate detention facility. But Omar particularly did not belong there because of the clear international consensus that children should not be prosecuted with anything in connection with a war or a war crime."

Wrong. If a kid is radicalized enough to kill people, then he's a terrorist and war criminal and deserves no special treatment. It's not like he wasn't old enough to know what he was getting into.

Canadians, angry about the repatriation,  kindly donated almost $30,000 to the family of Christopher Speer, the soldier who was killed in the attack.

GOP Candidate Wants Death Penalty For "Rebellious" Kids

Good grief, another Republican nutjob-ala Todd Akin and his asinine "legitimate rape" comment- who thinks it's okay to kill rebellious kids.  No, this is not a joke, that I know of. It wasn't an off-the-cuff remark about that obnoxious kid we all would, jokingly, like to do away with. This was a passage in a book that Charlie Fuqua, from Arkansas, wrote about naughty kids.

A candidate for the Arkansas legislature, Charlie Fuqua, says children who don’t demonstrate “respect for parents” should be put to death, the Arkansas Times reports. Fuqua is a former member of the Arkansas legislature and has received support from the Arkansas Republican Party and two sitting members of Congress.

Here’s the key passage from Fuqua’s 2012 book, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution“:

The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:

Fuqua helpfully notes that “This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children.” Rather, parents would have to “follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children.” Fuqua assures the reader that, in his view, the procedure would “rarely be used.” The threat of death would, however, “be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.’

Really, Charlie? The death penalty for rebellious kids? I say go for a good smack, if you want to discipline an unruly child, but snuffing them out? Maybe it was okay back in the day, when Deuteronomy was written, but in the 21st century?  Not so much, Charlie. You're giving the Republicans a bad name, which is something we can NOT afford.

He had no comment.

Please, stop it! All of you Republican wackos. Try to keep your bizarre beliefs to yourself.

In case you want to check it out:

Bagel Head Look Latest Japanese Beauty Fad

The latest body modification fad in Japan is the 'bagel head" look. Saline is injected into the forehead and once it is pumped full, someone presses their thumb down the middle of the protrusion to create an indentation. Voila, the bagel look. The saline eventually is absorbed into the body, but for a while they look as they have a bagel pasted onto their foreheads.

Some call it body art, I call it stupid. These kids have no idea what this might do to their bodies in the long term.

I just want to know, why??!!




For more on pictures and information on the phenomena, click here.

Fired! Liberal Chik-fil-A Bully Loses Job As CFO

Adam  Smith, who mercilessly harassed a Chik-fil-A employee (and stupidly taped himself doing so)  has been fired from his job as CFO and Treasurer of Vante, a medical equipment company in Tucson, Arizona. 

Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A. Effective immediately, Mr. Smith is no longer an employee of our company.

The actions of Mr. Smith do not reflect our corporate values in any manner. Vante is an equal opportunity company with a diverse workforce, which holds diverse opinions. We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions, however, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.

We hope that the general population does not hold Mr. Smith’s actions against Vante and its employees.

Also an adjunct professor at Eller College in Tucson, it looks like he's no longer working there either.

Oops.

He could have made his 'statement' without being nasty and disparaging.

Karma's a b$#tch, as they say.

Afghan Taliban Commander Demands $100 Reward Money For His "Own" Capture

Here's another Darwin Award contender, this time out of Afghanistan.  I realize the bulk of Taliban fighters are uneducated and ignorant, but this is priceless.

Mohammad Ashan was a wanted man in Paktika province.  He's a pea-brained Taliban commander who had his face plastered on posters with  a $100 finders fee on his head. He's only a mid-level commander, so maybe that's why the reward offer was so low. But one day last week, Ashan, poster in hand, walks up to the local police checkpoint in Sar Howza district demanding the reward money- for his capture. You see, Ashan was allegedly behind several recent attacks, so Afghan security forces posted the "Be on the Lookout" posters (emblazoned with his name and face) all over the district.

 Some interesting comments from U.S. Officials regarding Ashan's actions :

“improbable stupidity,”
“This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the ‘Home Alone” burglars,”
“Clearly, the man is an imbecile.”

When U.S. troops went to confirm that Ashan had in fact come forward to claim the finder’s fee, they were initially incredulous.

“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, ‘Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?’” recalled SPC Matthew Baker.

A biometric scan confirmed that the man in Afghan custody was the insurgent they had been looking for.

He, of course, was arrested. Thank God for stupidity.

Darwin Award Contender: Brit Man Wanted To Join Somalia's Al Shabaab To "Relax And Hang Out"

Here's a candidate for the Darwin Awards:

45 year-old British Muslim (born in Jamaica) Clive Everton Dennis was arrested by Somali police in Mogadishu  airport with a suitcase full of hashish and daggers, and no visa.  According to chain-smoking Dennis, who sports several earrings and short dreadlocks, he wanted to join al-Qaeda (in the form of al-Shabaab which rules the roost in parts of Somalia), because:

 " I was told by some people in Kenya that the guys in Kismayo were the best Muslims." 

But clueless Dennis has no idea about geography.

"I agreed to join them, and I was trying to find the way. I didn't know that Mogadishu was not Kismayo, I thought that there would be a plane I could catch there directly."

And the violence?  He didn't want any "of the violent stuff". Nope, none of that jihadi stuff for Dennis. He just wanted some camaraderie with fellow Muslims and little R and R.

" I wanted to go somewhere sunny where I could relax and hang-out with other Muslims without being bothered by people.

Apparently Dennis had been a bad boy in England (convicted of some 'minor' crime) and was having a hard time finding work. I guess he thought the next best thing would be to join an extremist group in Somalia. He also said he that he

"can't get a normal life there in London."

So, of course, he'll find normalcy with an ultra Islamist extremist group in Somalia that bans everything from music to women's bras, to television and practically everything else. Yeah, that's normalcy for you. And as for his hash, earrings and short dreads?  Someone forgot to tell old Dennis that those things would be a no-go with his new found Shabaab buds.

Poor old Dennis is being held

 on suspicion of entering the country illegally and plotting to join Islamic radicals waging a war to control the country according to a strict interpretation of Islam.

A Somali government spokesman said that the "due course of the law" would be followed, and that Mr Dennis would likely face charges for entering the country illegally.

He was not seen as a serious threat "compared to the terrorists we usually have to face", the spokesman added.

They're not too worried about Dennis because no-one with any sense knows to stay away from Mogadishu Airport. Security Forces said that

"Anyone who knows what they are doing, or is being sent to Somalia by someone who knows what they are doing, would avoid Mogadishu at all costs," said one.

"It's the seat of the government, the airport's swarming with intelligence [officers], and it's far, far easier simply to slip in overland or by sea from Kenya."

Oops.

I think maybe Dennis has smoked a little too much of that hashish, but he definitely deserves a spot in the Darwin Awards.