VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death! pic.twitter.com/XxtlxNNSiP— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
The Hill: State Dept feared violent protests at US embassies after Trump tweets: report
The State Department was worried about potential protests at United States embassies in the Middle East after President Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos, according to a CNN report published Thursday.
Officials with the State Department told the news network that embassies in the region were on high alert Wednesday, but no episodes of violence have been reported yet.
"It didn't manifest in anything actionable, but it was a big concern," an official told CNN. "We saw in Cairo and other places that simply posting something on the internet, even if nothing was intended by it, could have real consequences."
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Update: State Dept. warned White House about possible increased threats after anti-Muslim tweets (CNN)
WNU Editor: There were no protests in the Middle East over President Trump's re-tweeting of these videos because most people in the Middle East know that these incidences are true. The culture, politics, and sentiment towards Islamic extremism has changed in the Middle East to one of hostility and anger .... bottom line .... people are not going to go on the streets to voice support for these monsters nor denounce President Trump for reminding everyone of this dark period in Islam's history. So why was the U.S. State Department concerned? My guess is that they were more concerned about political correctness and what would be the reaction from Europe .... and not what the streets of the Middle East may voice. And so far .... this is exactly what has happened.
11 comments:
WNU
The "incidents" are true.
And the "incidence" of such events is quite high.
"Incidences" is not a word, unless perhaps among working statisticians.
In our 2014 Usage Survey, 74 percent of Panelists found this sentence unacceptable, and many Panelists remarked that incidences should be replaced with incidents or instances. The same sentence was unacceptable to 67 percent of Panelists in 2002, suggesting that there has been no increase in acceptability of this usage. A few Panelists remarked that this sentence might be acceptable if it were referring to rates of vandalism in several different places. A less ambiguous sentence (The election was marred by a few violent incidences) was rejected by 80 percent of the Panel. In this sentence, incidents is the better choice.
(Sorry)
Note that at least 20 percent of the American Heritage usage panel doesn't understand this.
(It's ok for a foreigner but if you hear it from an American or Canadian be aware that that person lacks a complete and thorough education in our good English tongue.
Some definitions of incidences ....
.... the rate or range of occurrence or influence of something, especially of something unwanted.
.... the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or something else undesirable.
I am sticking with my use of the word incidences.
Good for you. Everybody hates grammar trolls. You communicated effectively, and as many of our presidents have demonstrated, that is all that really matters.
Hope this isn't a repeat.
I have trouble with my commenter, and in addition I often come off as being abrahasive when all I feel is the exasperation of seeing the distinctions between four different words being lost.
That's all!
:)
To Unknown,
Everything is OK.
You are not at all abrasive. And I responded to your comment because you made me think, and for that I am always appreciative of. Keep it up.
I should also add that English is not my first language .... nor my second. So yes .... I do appreciate feedback on how I use the language (or .... cough cough .... misuse). :)
WNU
I hope I haven't mistakenly sent a bunch of different responses. I keep having to re-type the messages into the comment box since I take so long to respond. Thank you for your forbearance!
Hopefully this link may help explain better than I can.
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Incidence&submit.x=51&submit.y=10
I would not correct someone on the street for this usage of the words. You might even hear it broadcast on TV or Radio. The wrong usage has come to sound correct to many people! Vaguely more "official-sounding" somehow is part of my informal hypothesis.
To Anonymouse:
You can't be for Trump and pretend clear language doesn't matter, Son.
Trump can and does speak excellent English of every kind. So we're on the same page there.
Incident is a word.
Everyone knows what it means
"Incident" has a plural.
It is "incidents."
Incidence is a word
It means the rate of occurrence of a thing.
Incidence has a plural.
It is incidences. But you never use it unless comparing statistics.
The incidence of fake tits in SF dancing girls is approximately 25%.
The incidence of fake tits in LA
dancing girls is 55%
The average of the two "incidences"
is 40%, but if we use this average incidence of SF and LA dancing girls as a proxy for all California dancing girls, we run the risk of skewing the results since we have no rural samples for the incidence of fake breasts in dancing girls in California.
Maybe all we want is the urban incidence! In that case, this proxy, which might be called the Roxy Proxy, could be somewhat valuable as an estimate for the various incidences of breast augmentation in dancing girls for each particular urban area.
But just using the average of those two (SF and LA) incidences is not really a good proxy for the incidence of artificial breasts in dancing girls in all of urban California. Or maybe it is! We don't know yet.
Just, please, when checking on the validity of the Roxy Proxy (which measures incidence) try not to create any incidents.
We don't want to raise the incidence of justifiable homocide.
I mean homicide.
But if you did raise the local incidence of justifiable homicide, we could compare that with the incidences of justifiable homicide in surrounding communities, and even examine what differnt incidents may have been involved in each case, before the final, deadly incident.
(How many victims had been examining the perpetrators' breasts for signs of plastic surgery? Was there a high or low overall incidence of such incidents?)
DO YOU GET IT, MOUSE?
Thanks unknown.
I wish I had you as my English teacher.
BTW. I started this blog to work on my English. My English is something that I am sensitive about .... and it something that I am always trying very hard to improve.
As your explanation illustrates .... I still have a lot to learn.
:)
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