The self-identified "blacks" are "victims" of the "black power" subculture from the 1960's and its descendent subcultures, "Black Muslims, "rap", and "gangsta". These people have been and are being betrayed by leaders such as Louis Farrakhan, Charles Rangel, Al Sharpton, and the New Left in general.

What is so complicated, Mr. Patel? Are people other than Muslims and Blacks killing each other and others for non-sensical reasons?

Do you know of non-Muslim kids who strap on a suicide blast and massacre 50 people in a market place or inside a Mosque?

And please don't tell me it is poverty. You were born in India and you know very well it can't be poverty, otherwise India would have 100 times more terrorists than Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq combined.

Chicago street crime is the result of their political and organized crime.

When are we going to bring the troops home from Chicago?

The sacrifice is too great.

AMERICAN POLICEMEN

Misdeeds were put here as a test for mankind
And too many race down the wrong path.
Greed, hate, lust and perversion are Satan’s tools
In his workshops of corruption and wrath.

Rape, robbery, murder and assault
Are committed by the dishonest night and day.
Thank God for those who line up to protect
The principles of justice, honor and fair play.

Where would we be without valiant policemen
Who patrol our neighborhoods and streets?
Risking their life and limb on the line
Arresting thieves, killers, drug dealers, perverts and cheats.

To many officers end up victims of divorce
Products of occupational danger and strain.
Never knowing when they say good by
If it’s their day to be crippled or slain.

It takes a brave soul to become a good cop
Risking everything for little praise and pay.
It’s true that some may abuse their badge
But for the majority we gratefully pray.

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Contrary to DouginMoz view, the violence in Chicago is the result of one thing and one thing alone - the nation's war on drugs. Ever more severe drug laws starting in the 19 teens, continuing in the 1930s, the 1960s (nothing in the 1940s and 50s thanks to WWII!), the 1970s . . . on to today has created this culture of violence, the prestige and admired life style of successful drug dealers, the need for weaponry to protect that lifestyle, the fatherless homes, the ever rising prison population.

Stop Chicago's Terrorists, their Worst Criminals:
ARREST BARACK OBAMA'S CRONIES...

So the gang bangers are out of control in Chicago. Wasn't banning handgun ownership by law abiding citizens there a great idea? Sure stopped the Chicago crime wave, didn't it?

tribal ideology: my book, my prophet, my savior, my gang, my ego, my nation, my religion...

It all comes from ego wanting to have ownership. Certain religious ideology amplify the tribalism by worshiping books and by mandating that the haj goes to only one idol. Then churches and mosques ask why do our kids behave so badly - you have taught them.

The solution remains, teach real morality, not of tribal christianity and islam (or hindutva or greater or lesser vehicles etc) but a universal understanding of each of us as human. When you no longer talk about hell and heaven, no longer say my savior will torture you forever if you don't obey him, or that infidels are hated by god, then you can teach young adults about karmic consequence.

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What you see in Chicago is the end result of 40+ years of entitlements to "victims", resulting in millions of fatherless welfare thugs destroying society. Indeed, Odumbo even came from this area as a community organizer.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are doomed. Best arm yourselves and get ready.

I am not sure how this article fits into a site called "The Faith Divide," as the reasons for the gang warfare are secular concerns and the theological constructs of such groups are the logical outcomes of liberal philosophy and attitudes.

I also worked for several years with at-risk children in both public and private school settings, including several years managing the education program at an inner-city juvenile detention center at the heighth of that city's gang warfare problems. Close to 40 of my students were slain once outside the safety of jail, often by the new students in my class the following week.

Gangs are often considered lawless, but that is not true. They are actually some of the most lawful societies that you could ever hope to meet. There is a strict hierarchical sructure in which OG's (Old Gangsta's) pass down orders, codes and rituals to underlings whose obedience is devotionally administered. Totalitarian governments do not have this much control over their populations. Many of you in the anti-faith crowd will start noting the similarities between them and churches, but you would be wrong to do so.

Gang leaders do not believe in a higher authority than themselves. Thus they pay no attention to other authority whether it be religious morality or government laws or societal ethics or God. The only one that they respect is greater physical power and only when it is present. This is basic Neitschian "Man and Superman" where the individual can rise above societal norms and is encouraged to do so to establish self independence and authority.

The existential philosophy of secular humanism is that individual persons have the right to discover their particular significance in the world - to do what is right in their own eyes. With this permission our selfish natures are free to indulge themselves in greed for money or things, hedonistic pleasures, or the pursuit of power. After all, "whoever dies with the most toys, wins." Right?Thus gang-bangers and corporate executives alike have no problem engaging in activities, such as addicting others to drugs to create a market or closing companies to destroy pension funds for their employees, as long as they individually or corporately can make significant money for themselves.

Of course, in a world of true tolerance, we have no right to judge them or even condemn their activities. After all, they just did what was right by them. And in their own circles, gangsters are celebrated in movies and their own style of music. They even have martyrs - "homies" shot down by the police or rivals.

The freedom and power to do things does not mean that we should do those things. But under the humanistic philosophies that are currently taught in our schools, who is to say that it is wrong?

Reportedly, the president will address this horrible murder. Chicago isn't alone among gangbanger cities, but, has been out of control for a long time.

The problem requires more than feel good rhetoric about the "future." Action is long over due.

Rest in peace, Derrion.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Gibbs-Obama-Will-Address-Chicago-Violence-62906977.html

Abraham taught his children well like his followers taught their children to band together in anger, hatred and fear of others.
Religions are nothing more than humongous gangs themselves with the accompanying violence, ignorance and intolerance toward others.