[Adrian II]

Omar Haijawi-Pirchner?   There's a name to ponder.

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[him a layin]

some sort of merger happening there. caught my eye too.

[Adrian II]

Far be it from me to suggest divided loyalties...   

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[AzCal Retred]

Sounds like he's been thoroughly vetted, likely more so than the jobs previous occupant.

"Austria's Directorate for Protection of the State and Intelligence (DSN) Omar Haijawi-Pirchner"
<< Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the son of a Jordanian doctor and an Austrian nurse, was appointed as Austria's head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence >>
Austria appoints Jordanian as security chief
Appointment follows criticism of old security organisation after failure to prevent attack by Islamic State sympathiser in November
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/austria-jordan-security-agency-chief
The appointment of Omar Haijawi-Pirchner as head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) follows a pledge by Austria's minister of interior, Karl Nehammer, to replace the former counterterrorism agency, the BVT, with a “genuinely new” security organisation.
The BVT was harshly criticised after it failed to thwart a deadly attack in Vienna in November last year by a 20-year-old man from North Macedonia who had sympathies with IS.
Four people were killed during the violent attack and 23 were injured.
An investigation into the BVT's handling and reaction to the attack in November found loopholes in how it managed its database, which was not centralised and digitised, as well as chaotic communications between departments and rivalries within the organisation.
Haijawi-Pirchner, the son of a Jordanian doctor and an Austrian nurse, was born in 1980 in Austria. He joined the Federal Police in 1999 after finishing school and became a brigadier.
He has said that his father and mother's wedding was a classic story of a doctor marrying a nurse, and he "never felt like a migrant".
In 2017, he faced a wave of discrimination on social media after he was appointed as the youngest head of the State Criminal Police Office in Lower Austria.
He said in an interview in 2020 that there was "this hostility, and no, it doesn't hurt [me]. I was born and raised in Austria, and I feel 100 percent a real Austrian."
He said that his sense of justice drove him to join the police, preferring the thrill of a detective life over the university halls, though he completed a bachelor's degree in arts in 2011.

[Adrian II]

Fair enough, has he been pictured in Lederhosen sinking a few beers? 

What is perhaps less publicized is the number of folks in and from Arab lands who are heartily sick of the whole Isis/Hamas/Hezbollah etc stance, but fewer dramatic headlines from those guys must make them less interesting to our media.

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[GlennF]

Fair enough, has he been pictured in Lederhosen sinking a few beers? 

What is perhaps less publicized is the number of folks in and from Arab lands who are heartily sick of the whole Isis/Hamas/Hezbollah etc stance, but fewer dramatic headlines from those guys must make them less interesting to our media.

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Many normal everyday Islamic people are unhappy about the extremism and just want to get on with day to day life.

Similarly many Israeli citizens are unhappy about the current extremist right wing Israel Government, especially when that government pushes the view that criticising the government is anti-Semitic when the critics themselves are Jewish.

The problem is both the traditional media and social media influencers get more views/hits by pushing a black and white view of things and focussing on the extremism.

[AzCal Retred]

@ A2: Too bad we don't have someplace to air-drop all these like-minded yobbos. Preferably an island, but maybe easier a collection of old tankers moored someplace at least 500 miles offshore in 300-1000 feet of water. Several suspiciously flat-topped seamounts in the Pacific are suitable. Old tankers are $20M to $50M, about what it takes to house 500 inmates for a year. 500 guys on an oil tanker is a LOT of room per man. The US Navy could roll by every 2-4 weeks to collect the mail & top up the drinking water tanks, at least until their stills were operational. With luck, some buckets and a bit of line they could dip silt off of the bottom and eventually establish a farmable area on deck. Lots of plants grow in seawater, some palatable. Rain capture is another source of freshwater. That, chipping barnacles off the hull (food & "soil")  & subsistence fishing would give them plenty to do. A hectare of PV panels for power & it'd be just like home. Maybe they could sell handicrafts made from the sea plastics & miscellaneous trash that wash by for "extras" like soap, fish hooks, fishing line and seeds. Coast Guard or Navy drones could take in hand any adventurous folks trying to skip town, but a 500 mile open ocean shark-feeding expedition is daunting to most. Naval sea drones could practice on any sightseers wandering by.

I really don't think it takes a college degree to get along. You want to be a citizen, act like a citizen. If your first inclination is to maim others to make a point, maybe you need to move along. As you point out, NOBODY really wants to live next to these a-holes. There is absolutely zero reason to spend a dime to warehouse these eejits. Pull their citizenship papers let them live on "Sea Vista Estate Ranchos" (aka "Waterworld", "Costner Estates"...). Maybe for the milder cases offer $50,000 USD to any country willing to take them, and a hearty "good luck in your new endeavours".

[him a layin]

mixing religion and government has often been a problem.

[Richard230]

mixing religion and government has often been a problem.

But it could make for a great TV "reality" show.

[GlennF]

But it could make for a great TV "reality" show.

Or a book and streaming series - maybe call it some trendy name like "Handmaid's Tale ".

[AzCal Retred]

Maybe more like "The Sea is a Harsh Mistress"...

"As they say in South Africa: "The problems you make are the problems you create." " Firesign Theatre

[AzCal Retred]

Who knew an SSBN could float in a bathtub? Or you'd put a whole carrier group in a there too? Now that's what Vlad calls a target rich environment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l5v4dg04qo

US sends submarine to Middle East as tensions grow; 4 hours ago

The US has sent a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, as tensions grow in the region.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin also said an aircraft carrier which was already heading to the area would sail there more quickly.
The move comes in response to fears of a wider regional conflict, after the recent assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.
It signals the US's determination to help defend Israel from any attack by Iran - with Mr Austin saying US would "take every possible step" to defend its ally.
Iran is being closely watched for any indication of how and when it might respond to the assassination of Hamas's top political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July.
The Iranians blamed Israel for the assassination of Mr Haniyeh on their soil, and have vowed to punish it. Israel has not commented but is widely believed to have been behind it.
In a statement on Sunday, the Pentagon said Mr Austin had sent the the USS Georgia guided missile submarine to the region.
It had also ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which is carrying F-35C fighter jets, to accelerate its journey there. The ship was already on its way to replace another US ship in the region.