Ibrahim Abdullah (1963) is an American citizen of Palestinian descent. By self definition, he is a former PLO terrorist. He converted from Islam to Christianity in 1990 after a year of comparative studies on both religions.
Personal background
According to his biography in Shoebat.com, Abdullah was born in 1963 into a Palestinian Muslim family in Dearborn, Michigan. He had a radical Muslim and antisemitic upbringing which he claims, was in reality mainstream. He was brought up in the belief that "all the problems faced by the Palestinian people were caused by the Jews".
In 1981, he emigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and joined the Fatah, the main radical group associated with the PLO. He claims to have committed many hate crimes against Jewish civilians during this period. For instance, in one incident he recalls having thrown stones with other Fatah members at a car driven
by an Israeli man, thereby causing it to crash into a pole. He also relates another incident in which he and his group threw molotov cocktails at a passenger bus that had a mix of both Muslims and Jews on board with complete disregard for the lives of the passengers onboard. The resulting casualties were only prevented when they failed to cause the bus to crash, as the bombs bounced off the roof of the bus.
When the Israeli army secured Ramallah, Abdullah was arrested along with several other members of his group. While in confinement at the military prison outside Ramallah, he claims to have been recruited by extreme Islamist radicals for a terrorist mission and also being given training on bomb making, gliding,
surveillance and infiltrating Lebanon. Upon his conditional release, he was immediately deported to the United States and hence, was not able to carry out his mission.
In 1989, Abdullah studying the Quran for the purpose of becoming a more devout Muslim but gradually became disillusioned with Islam due to the perceived inconsistenices in the Hadith versus the Quran. He later began studying the Bible, eventually converting to Christianity in 1990 after coming to the conclusion that "the bible is the only true book". His conversion was soon followed by that of his wife in 1994.
He claims that he no longer bears any hatred or animosity towards the Jewish people and to have remorse for his past actions.
Personal background
According to his biography in Shoebat.com, Abdullah was born in 1963 into a Palestinian Muslim family in Dearborn, Michigan. He had a radical Muslim and antisemitic upbringing which he claims, was in reality mainstream. He was brought up in the belief that "all the problems faced by the Palestinian people were caused by the Jews".
In 1981, he emigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and joined the Fatah, the main radical group associated with the PLO. He claims to have committed many hate crimes against Jewish civilians during this period. For instance, in one incident he recalls having thrown stones with other Fatah members at a car driven
by an Israeli man, thereby causing it to crash into a pole. He also relates another incident in which he and his group threw molotov cocktails at a passenger bus that had a mix of both Muslims and Jews on board with complete disregard for the lives of the passengers onboard. The resulting casualties were only prevented when they failed to cause the bus to crash, as the bombs bounced off the roof of the bus.
When the Israeli army secured Ramallah, Abdullah was arrested along with several other members of his group. While in confinement at the military prison outside Ramallah, he claims to have been recruited by extreme Islamist radicals for a terrorist mission and also being given training on bomb making, gliding,
surveillance and infiltrating Lebanon. Upon his conditional release, he was immediately deported to the United States and hence, was not able to carry out his mission.
In 1989, Abdullah studying the Quran for the purpose of becoming a more devout Muslim but gradually became disillusioned with Islam due to the perceived inconsistenices in the Hadith versus the Quran. He later began studying the Bible, eventually converting to Christianity in 1990 after coming to the conclusion that "the bible is the only true book". His conversion was soon followed by that of his wife in 1994.
He claims that he no longer bears any hatred or animosity towards the Jewish people and to have remorse for his past actions.
William J. Bruce III (born March 4, 1980) is the Ministerial Booking Agent and Publicist to the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase through Willowcreek Marketing, he has served in this position since March of 2007.
Home Beyond the Sun
William started his career by being involved in the film "Home Beyond the Sun". Home Beyond the Sun is a Christian film by film studio Garden City Pictures http://christianfilmnews.com/1159/home-beyond-the-sun-2/.
Shawn Harper
In October of 2008 William founded the William Bruce Agency where he signed former NFL tackle; Shawn Harper
Journalism
William has also written for many publication such as Challenge Weekly; a newspaper based in New Zealand, MuscleSport Magazine, The Christian Online Magazine, Greater Phoenix Christian Chronicle, Incontrol Magazine and QueensbridgeMedia.com
On his official website William makes mention of his upcoming book "Penholder", no release date is specified as of yet.
Home Beyond the Sun
William started his career by being involved in the film "Home Beyond the Sun". Home Beyond the Sun is a Christian film by film studio Garden City Pictures http://christianfilmnews.com/1159/home-beyond-the-sun-2/.
Shawn Harper
In October of 2008 William founded the William Bruce Agency where he signed former NFL tackle; Shawn Harper
Journalism
William has also written for many publication such as Challenge Weekly; a newspaper based in New Zealand, MuscleSport Magazine, The Christian Online Magazine, Greater Phoenix Christian Chronicle, Incontrol Magazine and QueensbridgeMedia.com
On his official website William makes mention of his upcoming book "Penholder", no release date is specified as of yet.
The murder of Annie Le (pronounced "lay") occurred on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Le (July 3, 1985 - September 8, 2009) was a 24-year-old Vietnamese American doctoral student at Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology. Le disappeared on September 8, 2009, from a research building on the New Haven campus and was found dead in a Yale University medical building at 10 Amistad Street.
Incident
On the morning of September 8, Le left her apartment and took Yale Transit to the Sterling Hall of Medicine on the Yale campus. At about 10:00 AM, she walked from Sterling Hall to another campus building at 10 Amistad street, where her research laboratory was located. Le had left her purse, cell phone, credit cards, and cash in her office at Sterling Hall. She entered the Amistad Street building just after 10:00 AM, as documented on footage from the building's security cameras. Le was never seen leaving the building. At approximately 9:00 PM on the evening of September 8, when Le had still not returned to her home, one of her five housemates called police to report her missing.
Because they were puzzled that security camera footage did not show Le exiting the building at Amistad Street, police closed the whole building for investigation. Police also searched through refuse at the Hartford dump, where Yale's garbage is incinerated, looking for clues in Le's disappearance. The FBI, New Haven Police and Connecticut State Police were all involved in the search. On Sunday, September 13, authorities discovered Le's body inside the wall of a basement laboratory in the Amistad street building of Yale's Medical Campus. Bloody clothes had been found previously above a ceiling tile in the same lab. MSNBC and other news networks reported on September 14 that police may have identified a suspect, who has defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test. A New Haven police spokesman, however, denied those reports and indicated that no suspects had yet been identified.. The building and the area are monitored by around 75 security cameras and the entrance to the building and the rooms inside the building require Yale ID card in order to be opened and accessed. Police said this homicide doesn't seem like a random act and probably she was targeted for some reason. The basement where the body was found houses animals (mostly mice) that are used for experiments and research. Due to high security measures in the building, authorities and Yale officials maintain that it would be extremely difficult for someone without a Yale identification card to enter the basement laboratory where Le's body was discovered, leading them to focus their investigation on Yale employees and students.
The Yale community publicly mourned Le's death. The Yale Daily News reported that professor and Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis called September 14 the "saddest day to open class" since the day after September 11, 2001.
Personal
Prior to her graduate education at Yale, Annie graduated as class valedictorian from Union Mine High School in California in 2003, before becoming an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester in New York where she majored in cell and developmental biology with a minor in medical anthropology.
She was due to be married on September 13,2009, in Syosset, New York, to a graduate student in applied physics and mathematics at Columbia University, Jonathan Widawsky.
Le had previously composed an article for Yale Medical School's B Magazine entitled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," published in February 2009.
Yale murders
* In 1998, Suzanne Jovin, a 21-year-old senior at Yale, was found stabbed to death. Prior to Le's death, Jovin's was the last on-campus murder at Yale University, a crime that remains unsolved to this day.
* In 1991, Christian Prince, a sophomore and fourth-generation Yale alumnus, was killed as part of a hate crime and robbery committed by 16-year-old James Duncan Fleming. Fleming received a nine-year prison sentence.
* In 1974, Gary Stein, a Yale junior, was murdered during a robbery near Grove Street Cemetery. Melvin Jones was convicted in the case and spent 15 years in prison.
Incident
On the morning of September 8, Le left her apartment and took Yale Transit to the Sterling Hall of Medicine on the Yale campus. At about 10:00 AM, she walked from Sterling Hall to another campus building at 10 Amistad street, where her research laboratory was located. Le had left her purse, cell phone, credit cards, and cash in her office at Sterling Hall. She entered the Amistad Street building just after 10:00 AM, as documented on footage from the building's security cameras. Le was never seen leaving the building. At approximately 9:00 PM on the evening of September 8, when Le had still not returned to her home, one of her five housemates called police to report her missing.
Because they were puzzled that security camera footage did not show Le exiting the building at Amistad Street, police closed the whole building for investigation. Police also searched through refuse at the Hartford dump, where Yale's garbage is incinerated, looking for clues in Le's disappearance. The FBI, New Haven Police and Connecticut State Police were all involved in the search. On Sunday, September 13, authorities discovered Le's body inside the wall of a basement laboratory in the Amistad street building of Yale's Medical Campus. Bloody clothes had been found previously above a ceiling tile in the same lab. MSNBC and other news networks reported on September 14 that police may have identified a suspect, who has defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test. A New Haven police spokesman, however, denied those reports and indicated that no suspects had yet been identified.. The building and the area are monitored by around 75 security cameras and the entrance to the building and the rooms inside the building require Yale ID card in order to be opened and accessed. Police said this homicide doesn't seem like a random act and probably she was targeted for some reason. The basement where the body was found houses animals (mostly mice) that are used for experiments and research. Due to high security measures in the building, authorities and Yale officials maintain that it would be extremely difficult for someone without a Yale identification card to enter the basement laboratory where Le's body was discovered, leading them to focus their investigation on Yale employees and students.
The Yale community publicly mourned Le's death. The Yale Daily News reported that professor and Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis called September 14 the "saddest day to open class" since the day after September 11, 2001.
Personal
Prior to her graduate education at Yale, Annie graduated as class valedictorian from Union Mine High School in California in 2003, before becoming an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester in New York where she majored in cell and developmental biology with a minor in medical anthropology.
She was due to be married on September 13,2009, in Syosset, New York, to a graduate student in applied physics and mathematics at Columbia University, Jonathan Widawsky.
Le had previously composed an article for Yale Medical School's B Magazine entitled "Crime and Safety in New Haven," published in February 2009.
Yale murders
* In 1998, Suzanne Jovin, a 21-year-old senior at Yale, was found stabbed to death. Prior to Le's death, Jovin's was the last on-campus murder at Yale University, a crime that remains unsolved to this day.
* In 1991, Christian Prince, a sophomore and fourth-generation Yale alumnus, was killed as part of a hate crime and robbery committed by 16-year-old James Duncan Fleming. Fleming received a nine-year prison sentence.
* In 1974, Gary Stein, a Yale junior, was murdered during a robbery near Grove Street Cemetery. Melvin Jones was convicted in the case and spent 15 years in prison.
Just like emotive is to emotional, technomotive is to technical. People can persuade or be persuaded by technomotive language/arguments/persuasion. It can be though of as an addition to the modes of persuasion. It is a word which which can help analyze persuasive writing in the light of geek culture. There are other considerations which are much more ancient in their use, such as pathos, ethos and logos. Back in the ancient times there were no computers and most likely no technological geek culture, so the term technomotive is only one which could have been invented in recent times.
Todd Hubers is appears to have invented the term with the publication of his Knol article. Technomotive language is used to appeal to a persons' desire for Modernisation, the Upgradability of technology, the metrics of technical power and the quality of experience.
Tech - no - mo - tive - adjective
1. Characterised by or pertaining to technical hype - the induction of technomotive responses from a person
2. Productive of or directed toward the appeal of technology - the intent to cause a technomotive response
Examples:
* The salesman used technomotive language
* The geek was said to be easily swayed by technomotive arguments
* The domain of technomotive persuasion is largely
Related forms:
Technomotively (adverb)
Technomotiveness, Technomotivity (noun)
Examples
Technomotive Language
Lots of examples can be found in marketing material and article headlines, here are some examples of Technomotive language:
* "Clothe yourself in Geek" - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to be a geek and accepted in the geek community
* "Experience mind-blowing, heart pumping, knee shaking PhysX and ..." - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to have the best possible gaming experience
* "Today is so yesterday" - Technomotive language, appealing to desire to have the latest technology
* "Planning to overclock your shiny new Core i5 system? Kingston reckons it has the RAM you need." - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to have the latest and most powerful technology.
Todd Hubers is appears to have invented the term with the publication of his Knol article. Technomotive language is used to appeal to a persons' desire for Modernisation, the Upgradability of technology, the metrics of technical power and the quality of experience.
Tech - no - mo - tive - adjective
1. Characterised by or pertaining to technical hype - the induction of technomotive responses from a person
2. Productive of or directed toward the appeal of technology - the intent to cause a technomotive response
Examples:
* The salesman used technomotive language
* The geek was said to be easily swayed by technomotive arguments
* The domain of technomotive persuasion is largely
Related forms:
Technomotively (adverb)
Technomotiveness, Technomotivity (noun)
Examples
Technomotive Language
Lots of examples can be found in marketing material and article headlines, here are some examples of Technomotive language:
* "Clothe yourself in Geek" - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to be a geek and accepted in the geek community
* "Experience mind-blowing, heart pumping, knee shaking PhysX and ..." - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to have the best possible gaming experience
* "Today is so yesterday" - Technomotive language, appealing to desire to have the latest technology
* "Planning to overclock your shiny new Core i5 system? Kingston reckons it has the RAM you need." - Technomotive language, appeals to the desire to have the latest and most powerful technology.