tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post3629876433910025432..comments2024-03-27T15:36:44.737-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: A Conversation with White Nationalist Jared Taylor on Race in AmericaRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-6508296753136111672023-03-13T21:15:38.626-07:002023-03-13T21:15:38.626-07:00Richard Lynn: A controversial author with racist t...Richard Lynn: A controversial author with racist takes on South Asian intelligence<br /><br />https://www.tbsnews.net/thoughts/richard-lynn-controversial-author-racist-takes-south-asian-intelligence-497026<br /><br />Areas of the world inhabited by people with lower IQ scores are typically poorer and less developed, particularly in the area of education, compared to countries with higher IQ scores, according to a report titled "Average IQ by Country 2022", co-authored by Richard Lynn.<br /><br />According to the report, which was published by the World Population Review, the top 10 countries with the highest average IQ include mostly white and Southeast Asian nations.<br /><br />The views exhibited through Richard's works have often been critiqued as "eugenicist" and frankly, "racist".<br /><br />His "unapologetic" yet blatant show of sexism and white supremacy even cost him the emeritus title as psychology professor at Ulster University back in 2018.<br /><br />Richard Lynn is notoriously infamous as an English psychologist and author who believes that nations with high average IQs must subjugate or eliminate lower-IQ groups in order to preserve their dominance.<br /><br />His "Average IQ by Country 2022" report lists Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong (China), China, South Korea, Belarus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Netherlands and Germany as the top 10 countries with the highest average IQ.<br /><br />On the other hand, he has ranked Southeast Asian nations lowest in this very list, implicating a pejorative discrimination between the Southern and South Eastern ethnicities.<br /><br />The report named Nepal as "the worst intelligent nation" among 199 countries with an IQ score of 42.99.<br /><br />According to the study, Bangladesh ranked 150th on the global list with an average IQ of 74.33 points.<br /><br />India stood at the 143rd position in the list with a score of 76.74. Pakistan ranked 120th with a score of 80. Sri Lanka stood at the 79th position with a score of 86.62.<br /><br />Afghanistan stood at 103rd place with a score of 82.12. Bhutan with an average score of 87.94 stood at 68th place. Myanmar stood at 52th position with a score of 91.18.<br /><br />However, the World Population Review, on which the study was published leaves a footnote reading, "It bears mentioning that Lynn's studies, while comprehensive, tend to spark considerable debate.<br /><br />"Some researchers dispute the techniques Lynn employs to calculate estimates when hard data is lacking.<br /><br />"Others claim Lynn, an unabashed eugenicist, misinterprets his data to support conclusions that are both scientifically inaccurate and supportive of white supremacy."<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-71218877154431943382017-12-30T20:38:17.498-08:002017-12-30T20:38:17.498-08:00Just a comment -- You seem obsessed with white nat...Just a comment -- You seem obsessed with white nationalists. I want to point out that the people you have mentioned have no real following. I know that at a recent rally by Richard Spencer 12 people showed up. Of course, there are a small number of followers of these people -- fringe men -- but they do not have broad support from the US public and it is a mistake to think so. Nobody cares about them. <br /><br />I did listen to Richard Spencer a few times in order to find out what he really thinks. I highly recommend taking the time to listen to them. I have yet to ever hear a racist word or an unsympathetic word toward minorities from this man. As far as I know, there are no white nationalists calling for any kind of genocide or for violence. What we do have in the US are many leftists and minorities who are enthralled with the idea of a white genocide -- and they say so often. There's the actual threat, if you are honest and objective.<br /><br />The real problem with nationalism in the US today comes from immigrant groups and minorities. Black nationalists want to take some southern states. Mexican nationalists (probably the largest group of nationalists within the US) want to takeover about 2/3 of the US, which they mistakenly believe once belonged to Mexico. They have a fairly active and powerful lobby. White nationalists, from what I have heard, just believe that whites should form an independent nation or region somewhere, because they have become endangered by Democrats and by some minority groups. <br /><br />FBI and DOJ stats show that blacks are about 27 times more likely to attack whites than the reverse. Hispanics are many times more likely to attack whites than the reverse (though less likely than blacks). 90% of race-based crime victims have been white for more than 50 years in the US. This is never the subject of national news. In other words, the white nationalists might have a point, but it is not a point that should scare you. <br /><br />If there are 2,000 white nationalists in the US, out of about 325 million, versus millions of Mexican nationalists, which group are you going to worry about? Let's be rational. <br /><br />Did you know that the men who organized the "neo-Nazi" contingent in Charlottesville were all Democrat operatives, except for Richard Spencer, who is a close friend of the Bush family and is believed to be a CIA asset. It also appears that the tiki-torch carrying "white nationalists" were actors, hired for the occasion. (There is evidence to point to that.) The Democrats organized identical marches in Ukraine after they overthrew the democratically-elected president there, complete with tiki-torches nds swastikas. This has all been done before. It is a way to divide a country. They have a blueprint.<br /><br />Politics is a game for the elite. If you do not understand what game they are playing you will be led by the nose into the theater of the absurd. Be careful.<br />pcanonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00838900243027752639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-18263295269230722022017-12-28T11:22:17.505-08:002017-12-28T11:22:17.505-08:00Nonsense. Races are cultural but also genetic popu...Nonsense. Races are cultural but also genetic population clusters. There are lots of overlaps between populations, but even a bloody dog can see that a Sudanese person and a British person belong to different populations... There may not be single genes, or I would suggest the use of the correct term, alleles, to mark specific races, the differences between racial populations are often quite clear and obvious, as well as the heredity that isn't so obvious. The "there is no biological basis for race" is merely a pathetic postmodernist perversion of the reality... We are one species, but many races... denial of that fact is just asinine.bogloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032131106528689880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-44007735114991875172017-12-13T21:12:10.753-08:002017-12-13T21:12:10.753-08:00#California #economy is the world's 6th larges...#California #economy is the world's 6th largest....producing more than the economies #France, #India, #Italy, #Brazil, #Canada, etc https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/california-foreign-policy-paradiplomacy-la-china/<br /><br />California is the world’s wealthiest sub-national entity - and its sixth largest economy, between the UK and France. Now is the perfect time for it to step in. To paraphrase Truman, California “must take immediate and resolute action”. It has made some headway in the international arena over the last decade. But it has been punching beneath its weight. California is the modern version of Kumbhakarna, the Hindu giant cursed to fight for six months of every year - and sleep for the remaining six.<br /><br />California is bound to lead<br />California is a cradle foreign affairs experiment. Many signatories of the state’s original constitution, which was ratified in 1849 prior to California’s admission to the Union in 1850, had an international background. They were born in Mexico, France or Spain, such as Miguel Pedrorena or Pierre Sainsevain. But the constitution neglected international affairs. However, the practice was starting to germinate elsewhere. In 1857, the Australian state of Victoria became the first to set up a representation abroad, in London.<br /><br />Throughout its history, California has attracted people from all over the world. But it took until Governor Pat Brown’s administration, from 1959 to 1967, for it to grasp the relevance of an international agenda. It opened offices in London and Tokyo, since discontinued, to strengthen international trade. Then it 1977, the state established an internal Office of International Trade. In 1999, it nominated a Secretary of Foreign Affairs to strengthen political and economic ties with international partners. Under Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger (2003-2011) and Jerry Brown (2011- present), it made some important achievements around trade and climate change.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-49780611778088945792017-12-03T08:37:58.329-08:002017-12-03T08:37:58.329-08:00Southern Europeans More African Than Thought
By Ti...Southern Europeans More African Than Thought<br />By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer | June 3, 2013 03:00pm ET<br />https://www.livescience.com/37092-southern-europeans-have-african-genes.html<br /><br /><br />Southern Europeans get a significant portion of their genetic ancestry from North Africa, new research suggests.<br /><br />The findings are perhaps not surprising, given that the Romans occupied North Africa and set up extensive trade routes in the region, and the Moors, a North African people, ruled a medieval territory called El-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula.<br /><br />But the findings, published today (June 3) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest the impact of these connections went beyond culture and architecture, and may explain why Southern Europeans have more genetic diversity than their northern counterparts.<br /><br />"The higher level of genetic variation in Southern Europeans reflects gene flow from North Africa during historical times. We're talking about the last 2,000 years, really from the Middle Ages during which there was occupation in Spain," said study co-author Carlos Bustamante, a geneticist at Stanford University.<br /><br />More diverse<br /><br />Past studies had shown that Southern Europeans such as Spaniards, Greeks and Italians had more genetic variability than people from Northern Europe; other studies showed they had a small percentage of what looked like sub-Saharan ancestry. [The 10 Things That Make Humans Unique]<br /><br />Some argued that this genetic diversity came from the Moorish occupation of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe or the Roman contact with North African civilizations such as Carthage around 2,000 years ago.<br /><br />But because researchers didn't have DNA samples from people in North Africa, the link was difficult to prove.<br /><br />Substantial mixing<br /><br />To untangle European ancestry, Bustamante and his colleagues compared existing DNA samples of 2,099 individuals from 43 different populations in Europe and Africa. Crucially, they included new genetic samples from North Africa and Spain.<br /><br />The team found that for Southwestern Europeans (those from Italy, Spain and Greece), between 4 and 20 percent of their genomes came from North Africa, compared to less than 2 percent in Southeastern Europe.<br /><br />The study also found that the apparent sub-Saharan ancestry in these populations was actually the result of North African lineage.<br /><br />Many contacts<br /><br />The findings suggest contacts between the two continents left traces in the genetics of people of the Iberian Peninsula.<br /><br />"Studies such as this are key to improving our understanding of the impact of historical events and migration patterns in recent human history," Graham Coop, a population geneticist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an email. "There had been evidence of this contribution before, but the magnitude of the genome-wide contribution had been underestimated, in part due to the lack of dense sampling of Northern African populations."<br /><br />Though the findings are fascinating, the study researchers weren't able to resolve how much of this North African genetic component emerged during Roman times versus during the more modern Moorish occupation, said Priya Moorjani, a geneticist from Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.<br /><br />"It would be really exciting to look at all these events, but with modern DNA it can be quite hard to do that."<br /><br />Instead, looking at ancient DNA from fossil skeletons of Romans and Moors could help to answer those more detailed questions, Moorjani said.<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-5938641539211232292017-11-01T16:13:14.215-07:002017-11-01T16:13:14.215-07:00Aryan Invasion May Have Transformed India's Br...Aryan Invasion May Have Transformed India's Bronze-Age Population<br />By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer<br /><br />https://www.livescience.com/59703-north-india-populated-by-central-asian-invaders.html<br /><br />Contd....<br /><br />But past genetic analyses were based on either DNA from mitochondria, which is passed from mothers to daughters, or from genetic mutations found in nuclear DNA, which are inherited from both parents but can be difficult to date.<br />In the current study, which was reported in March in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, Richards and colleagues analyzed modern genetic data from mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome DNA — which is passed only from father to son — and nuclear DNA. By tying all these pieces of data together, the team was able to tie patterns of migration to specific points in time.<br />The team found evidence that people began colonizing India more than 50,000 years ago and that there were multiple waves of migration into India from the northwest over the last 20,000 years, including waves of people from Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago.<br />But evidence for one migration was particularly striking: The genetic makeup of the Y chromosome dramatically shifted about 4,000 to 3,800 years ago, the study found. About 17.5 percent of Indian men carry a Y-chromosome subtype, or haplogroup, known as R1, with the haplogroup more dominant in men in the north compared to the south of India.<br />This new finding points to an ancient group of people who inhabited the grassland between the Caspian and Black seas from about 5,000 to 2,300 years ago, known broadly as the Yamnaya people. The Yamnaya (and its later subgroup, the Andronovo culture) typically buried their dead in pit graves, drove wheeled horse chariots, herded livestock and spoke an early precursor Indo-European language. About 5,000 years ago, people from this culture almost completely transformed the genetic landscape of Europe, a 2015 Science study suggests.<br />The genetic signature of the Yamnaya people shows up strongly in the male lineage, but hardly at all in the female lineage, the study found.<br />One possibility is that a group of horse-riding warriors swept across India, murdered the men and raped or took local women as wives, but not all explanations are that martial, Richards said. For instance, it's possible that whole family units from the Yamnaya migrated to India, but that the men were either able to acquire (or started out with) higher status than local males and thus sired more children with local women, Richards said.<br />"It's very easy for Y-chromosome composition to change very quickly," Richards told Live Science. "Just because individual men can have a lot more children than women can."<br />The shift wasn't as dramatic as the genetic transformation of Europe; while up to 90 percent of European men from some countries carry a version of R1, only a minority of men from the Indian subcontinent do, Richards said.<br />"It's not like a complete wipeout by any means," Richards said.<br />Remaining questions<br />The study has a limitation: Because the very hot conditions in India don't preserve DNA well, the group lacks ancient DNA to prove that ancient migrants to the region carried the R1 haplogroup, said James Mallory, an archaeologist at Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, <br />o was not involved in the study.<br />"They're trying to read the history of a people through its modern DNA," Mallory told Live Science. In the past, similarly well-grounded theories have been disproven once people sampled ancient skeletal remains, Mallory added.<br />The other problem is that there is very little archaeological evidence for a dramatic cultural transformation in India at that time, he added. The Andronovo left behind distinctive artifacts and evidence of their culture in other places, such as their pit burials and unique pottery.<br />\Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-89414825172706964082017-11-01T16:04:21.385-07:002017-11-01T16:04:21.385-07:00Aryan Invasion May Have Transformed India's Br...Aryan Invasion May Have Transformed India's Bronze-Age Population<br />By Tia Ghose, Senior Writer<br /><br />https://www.livescience.com/59703-north-india-populated-by-central-asian-invaders.html<br /><br />An influx of men from the steppe of Central Asia may have swept into India around 3,500 years ago and transformed the population.<br /><br />The same mysterious people — ancient livestock herders called the Yamnaya who rode wheeled chariots and spoke a proto-Indo-European language — also moved across Europe more than 1,000 years earlier. Somehow, they left their genetic signature with most European men, but not women, earlier studies suggest.<br /><br />The new data confirm a long-held but controversial theory that Sanskrit, the ancient language of Northern India, emerged from an earlier language spoken by an influx of people from Central Asia during the Bronze Age. [24 Amazing Archaeological Discoveries]<br /><br />"People have been debating the arrival of the Indo-European languages in India for hundreds of years," said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England. "There's been a very long-running debate about whether the Indo-European languages were brought from migrations from outside, which is what most linguists would accept, or if they evolved indigenously."<br /><br />Aryan invasion theory<br /><br />From the earliest days of colonial rule in India, linguists like William Jones and Jakob Grimm (who co-edited "Grimm's Fairy Tales") noticed that Sanskrit shared many similarities with languages as disparate as French, English, Farsi (or Persian) and Russian. Linguists eventually arrived at the conclusion that all these languages derived from a common ancestral language, which they dubbed Indo-European.<br /><br />But while North Indian languages are predominantly Indo-European, South Indian languages mostly belong to the Dravidian language family. To explain this, scholars proposed the so-called Aryan invasion theory — that a group of people from outside India swept in and brought a proto-Sanskrit language to northern India. (The name "Aryans" came from a Sanskrit word for "noble" or "honorable.") In the early 1900s, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler proposed that these Aryan people may have conquered, and caused the collapse of, the mysterious Indus Valley Civilization that flourished in what is now India and Pakistan.<br /><br />The Aryan migration theory eventually became controversial because it was used to justify claims of superiority for different Indian subgroups; was claimed as the basis for the caste system; and in a bastardized form, was incorporated into Nazi ideology that the Aryans were the "master race."<br /><br />What's more, earlier genetic data did not seem to corroborate the notion of a dramatic Aryan influx into India during the Bronze Age, according to a 2003 study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-11143318164030235772017-08-19T07:45:03.195-07:002017-08-19T07:45:03.195-07:00Google Map of Most #Racist #America: the #South, t...Google Map of Most #Racist #America: the #South, the #Appalachians from #Georgia to #NewYork and southern #Vermont.<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/28/the-most-racist-places-in-america-according-to-google/?utm_term=.5bbfa28c698f<br /><br />Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE.<br /><br />The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for measuring the incidence of racist attitudes: Google search data. The methodology comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. He's used it before to measure the effect of racist attitudes on Barack Obama's electoral prospects.<br /><br />"Google data, evidence suggests, are unlikely to suffer from major social censoring," Stephens-Davidowitz wrote in a previous paper. "Google searchers are online and likely alone, both of which make it easier to express socially taboo thoughts. Individuals, indeed, note that they are unusually forthcoming with Google." He also notes that the Google measure correlates strongly with other standard measures social science researchers have used to study racist attitudes.<br /><br />This is important, because racism is a notoriously tricky thing to measure. Traditional survey methods don't really work -- if you flat-out ask someone if they're racist, they will simply tell you no. That's partly because most racism in society today operates at the subconscious level, or gets vented anonymously online.<br /><br /><br />For the PLOS ONE paper, researchers looked at searches containing the N-word. People search frequently for it, roughly as often as searches for "migraine(s)," "economist," "sweater," "Daily Show," and "Lakers." (The authors attempted to control for variants of the N-word not necessarily intended as pejoratives, excluding the "a" version of the word that analysis revealed was often used "in different contexts compared to searches of the term ending in '-er'.")<br /><br />It's also important to note that not all people searching for the N-word are motivated by racism, and that not all racists search for that word, either. But aggregated over several years and several million searches, the data give a pretty good approximation of where a particular type of racist attitude is the strongest.<br /><br />Interestingly, on the map above the most concentrated cluster of racist searches happened not in the South, but rather along the spine of the Appalachians running from Georgia all the way up to New York and southern Vermont.<br /><br />Other hotbeds of racist searches appear in areas of the Gulf Coast, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and a large portion of Ohio. But the searches get rarer the further West you go. West of Texas, no region falls into the "much more than average" category. This map follows the general contours of a map of racist Tweets made by researchers at Humboldt State University.<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-65438592674140454882017-08-14T10:54:12.396-07:002017-08-14T10:54:12.396-07:00No bail for #Charlottesville car attack suspect Ja...No bail for #Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields. #Nazi #racist https://usat.ly/2wXdOjC via @usatoday<br /><br />A judge denied bail Monday to an Ohio man accused of slamming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one of them, during a white nationalist rally.<br /><br />James Alex Fields Jr., 20, appeared in Charlottesville General District Court by video conference, where a judge read out the charges that include one count of second-degree murder, several counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run.<br /><br />Clad in a striped gray and white shirt, Fields was subdued while answering questions from Judge Robert Downer. Fields said he could not afford a lawyer, and Downer assigned private attorney Charles Weber to the case. <br /><br />Downer said he could not appoint a public defender due to a conflict of interest —someone linked to the public defender's office was injured in the crash Saturday. Fields’ next court date will be Aug. 25.<br /><br />Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and 19 people were injured Saturday when a Dodge Challenger allegedly driven by Fields rear-ended a sedan, which then hit a minivan that had slowed to allow the counter-protesters to cross at an intersection, Charlottesville police said. The impact pushed the vehicles into the crowd, police said in a statement. The Challenger fled the scene, but officers stopped it a short time later and arrested Fields, police said.<br /><br />The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the car attack, and FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday it does meet the definition of domestic terrorism.<br /><br />President Trump said he discussed the case with Wray and Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions. Trump, who condemned the violence hours after the tragedy but drew criticism for blaming "many sides," blasted white supremacists Monday.<br /><br />"Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," he said.<br /><br />Trump also paid homage to Heyer and to two State Troopers who died when their surveillance helicopter crashed in woods hours after Heyer's death.<br /><br />Heyer was killed shortly after police broke up the rally, which was a protest against the city's plans to remove a state of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a park. The rally drew hundreds of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and others, some dressed in militia-type garb and carrying weapons.<br /><br />Clashes between them and counter-protesters prompted Gov. Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency before the rally even got underway. The crowd mostly dispersed after police stepped in, and that is when the crash occurred.<br /><br />Fields' mother Samantha Bloom told CBS News she heard about the charges facing her son from a news reporter.<br /><br />"I just knew he was going to a rally," she told CBS. "I didn't know it was white supremacist. I thought it had something to do with Trump."<br /><br />Fields graduated high school in 2015, and the Army has confirmed that Fields reported for basic training in August of 2015. He was released from active duty a few months later "due to a failure to meet training standards," the Army said in a statement.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-61271729859050855442017-07-21T09:00:44.786-07:002017-07-21T09:00:44.786-07:00Gujjar tribespeople in Kashmir. The group is among...Gujjar tribespeople in Kashmir. The group is among 14 others in South Asia that has over a million people but probably started with major genetic contributions from just 100 people or fewer.<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/health/india-south-asia-castes-genetics-diseases.html<br /><br />http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3917.html?foxtrotcallback=true<br /><br />In certain states in southern India, anesthesiologists know to ask anyone undergoing surgery whether they belong to the Vysya, a regional group traditionally associated with traders and businesspeople.<br /><br />Anecdotally, medical workers know that some people with Vysya ancestry — who live primarily in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — have had fatal responses to common muscle relaxants, so doctors will use a different combination of drugs.<br /><br />The Vysya may have other medical predispositions that have yet to be characterized — as may hundreds of other subpopulations across South Asia, according to a study published in Nature Genetics on Monday. The researchers suspect that many such medical conditions are related to how these groups have stayed genetically separate while living side by side for thousands of years.<br /><br />South Asians should be viewed not as a single population but as thousands of distinct groups reinforced by cultural practices that promote marrying within one’s community. Although recent changes to cultural norms have resulted in more marriages between members of different groups like castes or subcastes, especially in some urban areas, gene flow between populations was restricted for millenniums, the authors report.<br /><br />Marriage within a limited group, or endogamy, has created millions of people who are susceptible to recessive diseases, which develop only when a child inherits a disease-carrying gene from both parents, said Kumarasamy Thangaraj, an author of the study and a senior scientist at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad.<br /><br />----------<br /><br />Today, South Asia consists of around 5,000 anthropologically well-defined groups. Over 15 years, the researchers collected DNA from people belonging to a broad swath of these groups, resulting in a rich set of genetic data that pushes beyond the field’s focus on individuals of European ancestry, Dr. Reich said.<br /><br />The scientists then looked at something called the founder effect. When a population originates from a small group of founders that bred only with each other, certain genetic variants can become amplified, more so than in a larger starting population with more gene exchange.<br /><br /><br />----------<br /><br />The strongest of these founder groups most likely started with major genetic contributions from just 100 people or fewer. Today, 14 groups with these genetic profiles in South Asia have estimated census sizes of over one million. These include the Gujjar, from Jammu and Kashmir; the Baniyas, from Uttar Pradesh; and the Pattapu Kapu, from Andhra Pradesh. All of these groups have estimated founder effects about 10 times as strong as those of Finns and Ashkenazi Jews, which suggests the South Asian groups have “just as many, or more, recessive diseases,” said Dr. Reich, who is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage himself.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-7742343048163935622017-07-19T09:11:18.877-07:002017-07-19T09:11:18.877-07:00Joshua Green, author of "Devil's Bargain...Joshua Green, author of "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, And The Storming Of The Presidency" on NPR's Fresh Air:<br /><br /><br />I talk a little bit about Bannon's time in the Navy. He was on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf right during the Iran hostage crisis and described to me the Middle East, Pakistan as being almost primeval. He considered Muslims these frightening, threatening people who ultimately wanted to invade the West. And I think that that is where a lot of his anti-immigrant, Islamophobic ideas really started from.<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=537885042Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-62554451302985176412017-05-08T10:47:20.635-07:002017-05-08T10:47:20.635-07:00'Straight out of the Nazi playbook': Hindu...'Straight out of the Nazi playbook': Hindu nationalists try to engineer 'genius' babies in India http://wapo.st/2pnhDKH?tid=ss_tw … by @anniegowen<br /><br />Members of a Hindu far-right organization called Arogya Bharati say they are working with expectant couples in the country to produce “customized” babies, who, they hope, will be taller, fairer and smarter than other babies, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper.<br /><br />The group's health officials claimed that their program — a combination of diet, ayurvedic medicine and other practices — has led to 450 of these babies, and they hope to have “thousands” more by 2020, the report said.<br /><br />“The parents may have lower IQ, with a poor educational background, but their baby can be extremely bright. If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow taller,” Hitesh Jani, the group's national convener, told the newspaper.<br /><br />Jani explained that the program consists of a “purification of energy channels” and body before a pregnancy, and mantra-chanting and “proper food,” such as meals rich in calcium and vitamin A, after the baby is born.<br /><br />The newspaper identified the group as the “health wing” of the conservative Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, but Ramesh Gautam, Arogya Bharati's national general secretary, said the group was merely “inspired” by the conservative ideology of the RSS rather than being officially supported by it. Arogya Bharati's website says it is a "voluntary organization of service minded people who have an interest in the health of society.”<br /><br />On Saturday, the chairwoman for a state child rights commission tried to attend one of the workshops where couples are counseled on how to produce these “genius” babies — as the Economic Times termed it — but was barred by organizers, that newspaper said.<br /><br />“This is an unscientific thing that’s happening here. It cannot continue,” Ananya Chatterjee, the chair of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said. The group countered that her charges were “politically motivated.”<br /><br />Responding to a petition from the commission, the West Bengal state high court later mandated that organizers present an affidavit and video of the proceedings, which went off as scheduled.<br /><br />The program launched over a decade ago and has spread to several Indian states. Organizers said it was inspired by a RSS leader who met a woman in Germany more than 40 years ago. An official said the woman led a post World War II re-population effort in Germany for “signature children” based on the same principles, according to the Indian Express report.<br /><br />This comment — and its evocation of the legacy of Third Reich era eugenics — prompted immediate backlash on social media, with one critic writing on the Daily O opinion website that this “dystopia in the womb” was “straight out of the Nazi playbook.”<br /><br />The RSS was founded in 1925 as a volunteer organization to advance the rights of Hindus. Over the years, it has given rise to many of the country’s more successful conservative politicians, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A few of its founders praised in essays and books the totalitarian movements of Nazism and fascism sweeping Europe at the time, scholars have noted.<br /><br />“The original RSS stalwarts found a political validity in racial resurrection championed by Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich,” Angshukanta Chakraborty, an opinion writer on the Daily O website, wrote, adding, “And even now, a racially pure search for homeland or creation of one along racially/communally pure lines appeals to the RSS and is the heart of its ideology.” Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-39666867717049981052017-04-19T19:44:28.789-07:002017-04-19T19:44:28.789-07:00#Islamophobic white nationalist armed militia grou...#Islamophobic white nationalist armed militia groups are surging across #Trump's #America | PBS NewsHour<br /><br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/armed-militia-groups-surging-across-nation/<br /><br /><br />JUDY WOODRUFF: Today is the 22nd anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing; 168 people died in that attack carried out by Timothy McVeigh.<br /><br />McVeigh sympathized with armed right-wing militia groups. These groups are still active, gaining members online, and honing their combat skills in training camps.<br /><br />The NewsHour’s P.J. Tobia went inside one of these camps to produce this report.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br /><br />P.J. TOBIA: These men claim their militia gives them a sense of shared identity.<br /><br />DEVIN “BOOGEYMAN” BOWEN, Georgia Security Force: We have basically built it as a family. I don’t have a lot of family, so it’s family that I don’t have, a lot of like-minded people, but yet we also stand for the same cause.<br /><br />CHRIS “BLOOD AGENT” HILL: I’m seeing a conflict in morals and values in the country that make me question, is this really happening? Crybabies are going to demand transgender bathrooms. At the end of the day, your rights end where mine begin. You know, don’t push your belief on me.<br /><br />P.J. TOBIA: Especially if those beliefs are Islamic.<br /><br />CHAD “KILL ZONE” LEGERE, Georgia Security Force: Any terrorist organization cannot be trusted. And, unfortunately, a lot of them, you know, are stemming off from the Muslim religion, you know, from Islam.<br /><br />P.J. TOBIA: In the last year, the FBI has disrupted major planned attacks against Muslims by men affiliated with militias. The FBI is the lead agency in these kinds of investigations.<br /><br />Militias have long been active in the U.S., but they have been recently energized by two key events: last year’s occupation of an outside wildlife refuge in Oregon by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, and the 2014 standoff in Nevada, where Bundy’s father, backed by militiamen, squared off with federal officials over grazing rights on public lands.<br /><br />Chris Hill was one of those militiamen at Bundy ranch.<br /><br /><br />-----------<br /><br />J.J. MACNAB: With law enforcement, that’s particularly problematic, because if, for example, an agency wants to investigate someone they suspect of building a bomb, will one of their members, one of the police officers who is part of that group tip off the criminal?<br /><br />There’s a recent leak that came out of an FBI manual that talked about how there were white supremacists, for example, in certain police departments, but the FBI couldn’t tell the police departments that it was a problem, because they were worried that that would tip off the white supremacists they were investigating.<br /><br />------------<br /><br />P.J. TOBIA: Both Johnson and MacNab say that militia have successfully recruited police and active military personnel.<br /><br />DARYL JOHNSON: We have a lot of returning veterans, military members who have fought in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they bring that mentality with them, that training that they had in the military, that kind of desensitized, dehumanized Muslims in these war zones and in these conflicts.<br /><br />And so, when they come home, a lot of them carry that sentiment with them, and it reflects itself in the modern-day militia today.<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-59069882421565558102017-04-04T16:14:46.877-07:002017-04-04T16:14:46.877-07:00#White supremacist asks #American #Muslim lawyer w...#White supremacist asks #American #Muslim lawyer why there is no '#Christian #ISIS,' gets schooled. #slavery #KKK<br /><br />https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/white-supremacist-muslim-history/<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Independent/status/849359672930844672<br /><br />https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.someecards.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fwhite-supremacist-muslim-history%2F<br /><br />Qasim Rashid is no stranger to anti-Muslim rhetoric. In fact, the Washington, D.C.–based lawyer tells Teen Vogue that he has personally dealt with a “significant” increase in anti-Muslim trolls since Donald Trump was elected. And Rashid’s epic response to one such troll is going viral.<br /><br />On Sunday, Rashid tweeted that “a white supremacist DM’d me claiming Islam is violent & taunted me to show ‘where’s the Christian version of Isis?’” and shared screenshots of the conversation. He responded to the question with a long list of examples of terrorism and violence at the hands of Christians, including “400 years of Trans Atlantic Slave Trade that maimed, raped, killed, kidnapped, and enslaved 20 million African ‘heathens’ to bring them to Christ,” and a note that “In America white supremacists who are self-described Christian are the single largest terror threat to American security.”<br /><br />Yes, terrorism exists, and it exists at the hands of Muslim extremists like ISIS. But that doesn’t mean all Muslims are terrorists or approve of terrorism. And while Rashid pointed out several instances of violence at the hands of Christians, his aim wasn’t to state that all Christians are terrorists. “I was inspired to respond because I believe terrorism has no religion,” Rashid tells Teen Vogue in an email. “Those atrocities committed by Christians do not reflect Jesus Christ, and the atrocities of Daesh do not reflect Prophet Muhammad.”<br /><br />http://www.teenvogue.com/story/muslim-lawyer-shuts-down-troll-christian-isisRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-3422222550142212622017-03-15T20:21:33.902-07:002017-03-15T20:21:33.902-07:00#Dutch #Liberals Defeat #GeertWilders in Blow to P...#Dutch #Liberals Defeat #GeertWilders in Blow to Populist Surge. #DutchElection #Islamophobia https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-15/dutch-liberals-defeat-wilders-s-party-in-election-exit-poll … via @bpolitics Dutch voters turned out in force to back pro-European parties and help Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Liberals easily beat off an election challenge by the anti-Islam Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, drawing a line in the sand over the spread of populism.<br /><br />With 93 percent of votes counted by the early hours of Thursday, the Liberal Party was forecast to take 33 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament to 20 seats for the Freedom Party. The Christian Democrats and the centrist D66 party were both one seat behind Wilders. Informal talks on forming a coalition will start later on Thursday and may take months, as is commonplace in the Netherlands.<br />The outcome was worse than opinion polls had suggested for Wilders, representing a rejection of his platform of pulling the Netherlands out of the European Union, abandoning the euro, closing Dutch borders and stopping all immigration by Muslims. It suggests that the nationalist sentiment that prompted the U.K.’s Brexit vote and won Donald Trump the White House will struggle to secure as big a foothold in Europe’s core.<br /><br />“Dutch voters rejected populism and voted for Europe,” said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “It seems like Rutte’s appeal for a ‘centrist fightback against Trump and Brexit’ was heard.”<br /><br />The euro climbed to the highest level in more than a month on the result, which was hailed by leaders across Europe. Kirkegaard said that Rutte will probably stay on as premier, noting that the Christian Democrats and D66 are both “strongly pro-European.”Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-43029142127380166162017-03-13T09:06:37.025-07:002017-03-13T09:06:37.025-07:00#Iowa Rep. King contends #US can't rebuild ...#Iowa Rep. King contends #US can't rebuild 'with somebody else's babies' #racism #xenophobia #Trump http://nbcnews.to/2nlTkgn via @nbcnews<br /><br />Iowa Rep. Steve King on Monday defended his contention that U.S. culture cannot be restored "with somebody else's babies" and advocated for "an America that's just so homogeneous that we look a lot the same."<br /><br />The firebrand Republican, who has made a number of eyebrow raising remarks about immigration and culture, retweeted praise for a far-right European politician on Sunday, lauding him for understanding "that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."<br /><br />In an interview on CNN on Monday, King said he "meant exactly what I said."<br /><br />"You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies. You've got to keep your birth rate up and that you need to teach your children your values and in doing so, then you can grow your population and you can strengthen your culture, you can strengthen your way of life," King said.<br /><br />King called Western Civilization a "superior culture" and said some cultures contribute more to American society than others.<br /><br />"If you go down the road a few generations or maybe centuries with the intermarriage, I'd like to see an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot the same," King added.<br /><br />King has served in Congress since 2003 and has become an influential voice among the conservative House members. He has a history of making controversial statements when it comes to immigration and race. At an appearance on MSNBC during the Republican National Convention last summer, King questioned the contributions non-whites have made to society.<br /><br />In 2013 he said for each undocumented immigrant who becomes a valedictorian, there are 100 that have "calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."<br /><br />The Iowa Republican's latest tweet and subsequent defense were condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-57721692509154054522017-03-13T08:27:35.009-07:002017-03-13T08:27:35.009-07:00In views of diversity, many Europeans are less pos...In views of diversity, many Europeans are less positive than Americans<br />http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/12/in-views-of-diversity-many-europeans-are-less-positive-than-americans/<br /><br />About six-in-ten Americans say increasing diversity makes the country a better place to live (58%), compared with just 7% who say it makes the U.S. a worse place to live and 33% saying it doesn’t make a difference either way.<br /><br />The most common view among the 10 European countries surveyed is that cultural diversity is neither a plus nor a minus in terms of quality of life. In no nation does a majority say increasing diversity is a positive for their country. At most, roughly a third in Sweden (36%), the UK (33%) and Spain (31%) describe growing racial, ethnic and national diversity in favorable terms.<br /><br />By contrast, more than half in Greece (63%) and Italy (53%) say that growing diversity makes their country a worse place to live. Roughly four-in-ten Hungarians (41%) and Poles (40%) agree. Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-8334275121841742132017-02-28T17:03:33.767-08:002017-02-28T17:03:33.767-08:00Spectator WW II deaths (millions) Russia: 26, Chin...Spectator WW II deaths (millions) Russia: 26, China: 15, Germany: 6.9, Poland: 5.9, Japan: 2.5, India: 1.6, France: 0.6, UK: 0.45, US: 0.4<br /><br />The nearly 60 million deaths in WW II were caused by a war started by European Christians.....a lot of the innocents caught in that war were people of Asia and Africa colonized by Europeans.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-38483081665566692332017-02-28T08:06:18.956-08:002017-02-28T08:06:18.956-08:00Jeff W: "Great. So all gun related killings d...Jeff W: "Great. So all gun related killings during Obama time was due to lax gun laws. During Trump time it is due to white supremacist :-)"<br /><br /><br />There's a known well-documented nexus between gun lobby and white supremacy....particularly the white militias. <br /><br />Jeff W: "And we are suppose to believe that every white invention owes to muslim invention centuries ago"<br /><br /><br />Algebra and algorithm, brought to us by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, underlies al modern inventions and innovations. Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-12602306865231022062017-02-26T19:07:50.126-08:002017-02-26T19:07:50.126-08:00‘Everyone’s nervous’: Some students in #India reth...‘Everyone’s nervous’: Some students in #India rethink U.S. study plans after #kansaskilling. #xenophobia #Trump<br /><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/everyones-nervous-some-students-in-india-rethink-us-study-plans-after-kansas-shooting/2017/02/25/767041f4-c584-4c45-8913-838c7d6d7166_story.html?utm_term=.8b9ee26c6d32<br /><br />Anupam Singh, a master’s student, once dreamed of coming to the United States for his PhD studies. But Wednesday’s seemingly racially charged shooting of two Indian men in Kansas reaffirmed his growing belief that the United States isn’t a hospitable place for foreign students.<br /><br />“I would be scared to study in the U.S.,” he said Saturday outside a tea stall on the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. “Did you read the newspapers yesterday? Two Indians were shot.”<br /><br />A Navy veteran who had allegedly been intoxicated was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of two Indian software engineers in a crowded bar in Olathe, Kan., Wednesday evening. The assailant reportedly shouted, “Get out of my country!” One man died, and the second was injured. A patron who intervened was also hurt.<br /><br />The possible hate crime has prompted anger in India and concern that the Trump-era United States is no longer a safe place for its thriving community of visiting Indian students, scholars and tech workers. The father of Alok Madasani, the Indian injured in the attack, appealed Friday from the Indian city of Hyderabad to “all the parents in India” not to send their children to the United States under “present circumstances.”<br /><br />On a sunny day at one of India’s most prestigious science and technology campuses, the effects of Wednesday’s violence were keenly felt.<br /><br />Graduate students said they were changing their postgraduate plans from the United States to universities in Canada or Australia. Others were fielding telephone calls from anxious parents.<br /><br />And parents who brought younger students to a Rubik’s Cube competition said they hoped the situation was temporary, because studying abroad in the United States remains the goal for many of the country’s brightest students.<br /><br />The number of international students at U.S. universities topped 1 million last year, according to government data, with the number of Indians up 14 percent, to 206,584.<br /><br />“I used to think of America as a place where there is greater racial equality than exists in India,” said Dhriti Ahluwalia, 26, a master’s student who wants to attend a public policy program in the United States. “Now people are afraid. There is inequality. There is racism.”<br /><br />Concern over the troubled U.S. political climate, beginning with its rhetoric-charged presidential campaign, has reverberated through India’s thriving industry for test preparation and admissions coaching, which prepares students for study abroad.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-67350751476204774462017-02-26T18:50:56.322-08:002017-02-26T18:50:56.322-08:00Health spending as % of GDP, 2013.
US: 16.4%
Germ...Health spending as % of GDP, 2013.<br /><br />US: 16.4%<br />Germany: 11%<br />France: 10.9%<br />Japan: 10.2%<br />UK: 8.5%<br />Israel: 7.5%<br />S Korea: 6.9%<br />Turkey: 5.1%Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-76617842749196741612017-02-25T22:10:28.379-08:002017-02-25T22:10:28.379-08:00Growing list of white nationalist #Hatecrime in #T...Growing list of white nationalist #Hatecrime in #Trump's #America. #Islamophobia #racism #neonazi #Antisemitism https://www.facebook.com/MicMedia/videos/1414967115192741/ …Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-85082582933409233312017-02-25T05:26:02.604-08:002017-02-25T05:26:02.604-08:00Great. So all gun related killings during Obama ti...Great. So all gun related killings during Obama time was due to lax gun laws. During Trump time it is due to white supremacist :-)<br /><br />And we are suppose to believe that every white invention owes to muslim invention centuries ago.Jeff Wainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-10929649194260515182017-02-23T21:15:33.429-08:002017-02-23T21:15:33.429-08:00#Travel Press Reporting '#Trump Slump,' a ...#Travel Press Reporting '#Trump Slump,' a Devastating Drop in #Tourism to the United States | Frommer's #MuslimBan<br /><br />http://www.frommers.com/tips/miscellaneous/the-travel-press-is-reporting-the-trump-slump-a-devastating-drop-in-tourism-to-the-united-states<br /><br />Though they may differ as to the wisdom of the move, the travel press and most travel experts are of one mind: They are currently drawing attention to an unintended consequence of the Trump-led efforts to stop many Muslims from coming to the U.S., pointing to a sharp drop in foreign tourism to our nation that imperils jobs and touristic income. <br /> <br />It’s known as the “Trump Slump.” And I know of no reputable travel publication to deny it.<br /> <br />Thus, the prestigious Travel Weekly magazine (as close to an “official” travel publication as they come) has set the decline in foreign tourism at 6.8%. And the fall-off is not limited to Muslim travelers, but also extends to all incoming foreign tourists. Apparently, an attack on one group of tourists is regarded as an assault on all.<br /> <br />As far as travel by distinct religious groups, flight passengers from the seven Muslim-majority nations named by Trump were down by 80% in the last week of January and first week of February, according to Forward Keys, a well-known firm of travel statisticians. On the web, flight searches for trips heading to the U.S. out of all international locations was recently down by 17%. <br /> <br />A drop of that magnitude, if continued, would reduce the value of foreign travel within the U.S. by billions of dollars. And the number of jobs supported by foreign tourists and their expenditures in the United States—and thus lost—would easily exceed hundreds of thousands of workers in hotels, restaurants, transportation, stores, tour operations, travel agencies, and the like. <br /> <br />While, earlier in the year, the Administration had boasted of saving 800 jobs in the Carrier Corporation, the drop-off in employment resulting from the travel ban would eclipse that figure. <br /> <br />According to the Global Business Travel Association, in only a single week following announcement of the ban against certain foreign tourists, the activity of business travel declined by nearly $185 million. <br /> <br />Other observers, including local tourist offices, have reached similar conclusions. In referring to New York City’s $60 billion tourist industry alone, the head of the city’s tourist effort complained that his agency’s effort to portray the United States as a welcoming destination to foreign citizens “was all in jeopardy.” Several other tourist officials have made like statements. <br /> <br />As you can see, there is plenty of evidence for a negative conclusion. Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-11425028092882919322017-02-23T18:45:40.322-08:002017-02-23T18:45:40.322-08:00White nationalist shoots #India national Srinivas ...White nationalist shoots #India national Srinivas Kuchibhotla dead . #Hatecrime #Trump The Kansas City Star<br />http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134459444.html<br /><br />An Olathe man who reportedly told two strangers — Garmin engineers originally from India — to “get out of my country” before he shot them in an Olathe bar was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the death of one of the victims.<br /><br />Adam W. Purinton, 51, allegedly shot Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32; Alok Madasani, 32, of Overland Park, and another bar patron, 24-year-old Ian Grillot of Grandview.<br /><br />Kuchibhotla died at a hospital after the 7:15 p.m. shooting in Austins Bar & Grill near 151st Street and Mur-Len Road.<br /><br />Purinton also is charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder in the shootings of Madasani and Grillot. Witnesses said Grillot was shot after he intervened.<br /><br />Madasani was released Thursday from a hospital, where Grillot is improving. The two even talked with each other Thursday.<br /><br />In a video released by the University of Kansas Health System, Grillot spoke about how he jumped at the shooter.<br /><br />“It wasn’t right, and I didn’t want the gentleman to potentially go after somebody else,” Grillot said.<br /><br />Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe announced the charges against Purinton during a press conference at Olathe police headquarters.<br /><br />He was joined by federal law enforcement officials who said that they are investigating in conjunction with Olathe police to determine if the shooting was a bias-motivated hate crime in violation of the victims’ civil rights.<br /><br />At least one witness reportedly heard the man yell “get out of my country” shortly before shooting Kuchibhotla and Madasani. The man fled on foot. A manhunt ensued. Five hours later, Purinton reportedly told a bartender at a bar in an Applebee’s in Clinton, Mo., that he needed a place to hide out because he had just killed two Middle Eastern men, The Star has learned.<br /><br />The bartender called police, and Purinton was arrested without incident, Assistant Clinton Police Chief Sonny Lynch said. Purinton was not armed.<br /><br />“It was a tragic and senseless act of violence,” said Olathe Police Chief Steven Menke.<br /><br />After his arrest in Clinton, Purinton — a Navy veteran, IT specialist, former pilot and air traffic controller who lives in a comfortable suburban home — was booked into the Henry County Jail.<br /><br />Purinton appeared before a judge in Henry County and waived his right to fight extradition. Bond was set at $2 million.<br /><br />It was not known how soon he would be returned to Johnson County.<br /><br />Both Howe and Eric Jackson, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Kansas City office, cautioned they were too early in their investigation to assign a motive or call it a hate crime.<br /><br />“We’re less than 24 hours in,” Howe said. “We want to be sure of the facts versus speculation.”<br /><br />Jackson said it was not “uncommon” for joint federal and local law enforcement investigations into possible hate crimes.<br /><br />Tom Beall, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, said his office would be evaluating the case as more facts are gathered in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice.<br /><br />“There will probably be more to come later from us,” Beall said.<br /><br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.com