After the initial reaction of incredulity subsided, I decided to subject Mr. Obama’s assertion to pitiless, objective mathematical analysis. What exactly are the odds that 4 Jews could be randomly murdered in Paris by a single killer (as Mr. Obama would have us believe)?
The probability that a random murder in Paris will involve ONE Jew as the victim shall be defined as P1, and is determined by the following equation:
P1 = NJ / NT
Where NJ = Number of Jews living in metropolitan Paris NT = Total number of people living in metropolitan Paris
Given Mr. Obama’s claim that the murders were unrelated, independent events, the probability that 4 Jews were randomly murdered in succession by a single individual is given by the variable Pt:
Pt = 0.000000281 (reduced to 3 significant figures)
The result can be multiplied by 100 to arrive at a percentage:
Pt (%) = 0.0000281%
Thus, there is a 0.0000281% chance that the 4 Jews were randomly killed (and therefore, that the American president is telling the truth).
Or, in starker terms, the likelihood that Mr. Obama is lying through his teeth is 99.9999719%.
The science is settled.
Saying the Paris terrorists randomly picked a Kosher deli is like saying the KKK randomly picked black people to lynch.— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 10, 2015
UPDATE: Much hilarity ensues as clueless (and thoroughly incompetent) State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki is unaware that:
Jews (and not Buddhists!) preferentially patronize kosher supermarkets
UPDATE #2: Of course, there is also the possibility that President Obama is not an anti-Semitic liar, and he simply spoke without thinking.
Certainly, if he were willing to admit that the Muslim terrorist who murdered the 4 Jewish shoppers targeted them because of their religion (and not randomly), then the mathematical proof that Mr. Obama is an anti-Semitic liar would be rendered invalid.
What if a white racist with a submachine gun broke into a convenience store in South Central Los Angeles, grabbed seven or eight African Americans who were shopping (maybe there was one Korean) as hostages for the release of some other white racists and then, when attacked, started spewing the N-word while shooting up the place, killing three or four of the African Americans and wounding three or four others, one or two critically.
How would President Obama react?
I suspect he wouldn't say the victims were just "a bunch of folks" who were "randomly" targeted and killed.
"The individuals who were killed in that terrible, tragic incident, were killed not because of who they were, but because of where they randomly happened to be!"
An interesting point in that last link: If the attacks in Paris were so random, why are French soldiers standing guard at synagogues and Jewish schools, instead of at random street corners?
Perhaps they just don't understand the nature of the problem as well as King Putt.
The definition of stupidity must surely be demanding enaction of blasphemy laws…in countries where you're a religious minority:
Your Honor, I don't know anything about religious theology. I'm just a caveman. Everyday when I drive to the office in my red Mercedes, I'm terrified. I see other cars and wonder, "Are these evil spirits from the netherworld? Are they going to hungrily feast upon my soul?" Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your modern world CONFUSES and FRIGHTENS me.
But I do know this: When a defendant (such this young Mohammedan gentleman) willfully and maliciously rejects the divinity of Our Lord And Saviour, Jesus Christ, then he displays contempt for the unerring pronouncements on the matter as stipulated by the Council Of Chalcedon.
But I am an educated westerner and, alas, a literary fellow. And these works ["Canterbury Tales", "The Decameron" and "Candide"] do not make a fool of Jesus Christ personally.
Nothing condones the violence in Paris on Jan. 11. The reasons for it lie at least partially in a catastrophic conflict of cultures. The only good that may come from all this is deeper reflection and understanding which results in greater empathy for victims of insensitivity or cruelty everywhere, and not simply in France.[emphasis added]
If the good father is suggesting that the French need to cater more to Muslim sensitivities, then he'll be delighted to know that that's been going on for quite some time: French authorities are prevented from entering large numbers of Muslim-dominated no-go zones for fear of mob attacks, and French Jews are unable to wear clothing reflecting their religious devotion for fear of being assaulted or murdered by members of the Religion Of Peace™.
Woe be to any Jew lacking the requisite "empathy" with Islamic anti-Semitism!
However, since it's a lazy Sunday evening and I'm feeling charitable, I shall give Father Bauer the benefit of the doubt and assume he does not wish to abolish free speech in the Western World. (A policy which, if enacted, would consign it to an epoch of ignorance and cruelty similar to the 800-year-long Dark Age that Islam currently languishes in the depths of).
Rather, I shall assume that what Father Bauer meant to say was that Muslim immigrants in the West should endeavor to be sensitive to the Western values of their new homeland, and not attempt to transform the West into an Islamofascist shithole resembling the one they emigrated from.
(Well, as a Catholic priest, he might not phrase it exactly that way…)
