Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 June 2015

A Boston man Usaama Rahim was killed by an FBI agent and a police officer today. The man was under surveillance by FBI counter-terrorism units. Usaama went after the police with a knife. However his brother Ibrahim, a local imam, said Usaama was “shot in the back” and his last words were, “I can’t breathe.”

…Palmyra is one of a handful of places on the planet — along with Machu Picchu, Petra and the Taj Mahal — whose presence can't easily be conveyed through a camera lens. You don't get a proper sense of it from the Discovery Channel. You have to see the rosy pillars rising from the trackless desert for yourself.

The thought of those ancient remains under the sledgehammers of the jihadi iconoclasts is almost unbearable.…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Tulsa woman who was denied a job at clothing chain Abercrombie Kids because she wore a Muslim headscarf to the job interview.

In an 8-1 decision, the court said civil rights law prohibited the retailer from using Samantha Elauf’s religion as a motivating factor in not hiring her.

…The beloved TARDIS, or Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style, from the British television cult classic “Doctor Who,” was available for purchase Friday at Time Travelers Antiques and Flea Market, located at 1120 N. Osage Ave. in Dewey.…

The Islamic State has issued a fatwa banning the practice of pigeon-breeding. Violators will face possible flogging. Islamic theologians say the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead offends Islam. Devout Muslims possess a special visual lobe that allows them to see the genitals of birds, which are not normally visible to kuffar.

In other news, a 23-year-old “Dane” has been jailed in Copenhagen for supporting the Islamic State.

The original theme for today’s blog was to rhetorically axe if Oblahblah knows he’s completely full of it or if he’s that delusional.…

…On this day in 1924 Silent Cal signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law making Indians officially US citizens.…