Top 5 Most Dangerous Cities

Despite all the universities and educational institutes America remains an uncivilised cowboys country. America is the worst example to others. Americans are highly-trained, religious and very violent.

In case you didn't know, Baghdad was a peaceful and joyful city albeit ruled by a ruthless dictator. Al-Qaeda men weren't in Iraq before the American invasion of March 20, 2003. The Americans need violence in order to remind them of their own home cities.

It is more logical to compare the homicides in Detroit with that of a European, Chinese or Japanese city of similar population size. You will be amazed. Try to do some googling.

No. 1 Detroit, Mich.
(Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Mich., metropolitan statistical area)
Population: 1,951,186
Violent Crimes per 100,000: 1,220
No. 2 Memphis, Tenn.
(Memphis, Tenn.-Miss.-Ark. metropolitan statistical area)
Population: 1,295,670
Violent Crimes per 100,000: 1,218
No. 3. Miami, Fla.
(Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla. metropolitan statistical area)
Population: 2,401,971
Violent Crimes per 100,000: 988
No. 4 Las Vegas, Nev.
(Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev., metropolitan statistical area)
Population: 1,834,533
Violent Crimes per 100,000: 887
No. 5 Stockton, Calif.
(Stockton, Calif., metropolitan statistical area)
Population: 684,406
Violent Crimes per 100,000: 885

Comment: The Americans like to police the streets of the world cities but not their own. They also tend to export the violent behaviour to others. It not surprising that the American hands are stained with the blood of people from 33 countries.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times




April 28, 2009, 5:42 am
America: The Less Violent Side
By Sahar S. Gabriel

Sahar S. Gabriel was an Iraqi translator with The New York Times in Baghdad. She moved to America on a refugee program.

— Baghdad Bureau

MICHIGAN– On March 18, just after my arrival in the United States, four high schoolers were killed in the state of Michigan. DUI, an expression I had heard so much in TV shows and movies.

Four lives ended in a reckless accident caused by a moment of irrationality. A bad decision. This was not a terrorist act or a sectarian killing. This was what is referred to as “stuff happens,” and it happens everywhere around the world.

I watched on television as the moms and dads attended their kids’ funerals and my heart went out to them. I thought of the anger and doubts that must be forming inside and then I thought about the youngsters who were killed. A friend used to say something every time we heard of someone being killed in Iraq, “What a waste.” He was right. A waste of possibilities and decisions that could have changed the future. It occurs to me that this may not be the less violent side after all.

But, it is the right “violent side” for me, as a person. And if people are killed and die everywhere, then this is where I want to live, a place where a lot of people may not approve of me and are free to express that. It is that right that appeals to me, that god given right to live and love and pursue happiness.

It is why the parents and families of those teenagers and many others do not pack up and leave the country after something like that happens. The word is HOME, and that does not necessarily mean the geographic spot you were born in.