What i find disturbing

Picture of the Bomber on the cover of Rolling Stone

Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19 as he emerged from a boat stored in a Watertown, Mass., backyard. The red dot of a police sharpshooter's laser sight can be seen on his forehead.

There has been a lot of backlash to the image of Dzokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone. I am not sure that the backlash is not deserved, I am not sure what reaction is right or wrong. What occurred was horrific and a whole hosts of different reactions to the image are/should be expected. The image above was released by Sergeant Sean Murphy of the Boston police department in response to the image on the cover of Rolling Stone. He wanted people to know what Dzokhar really looked like, not the images of someone "fluffed and bluffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine." 

Both images are disturbing in their own rights and both need to be out in the public hemisphere or at least that is my opinion. What I find more disturbing than either image alone is the juxtaposition of them against each other. How did this happen how did the kid/guy in the first image become the guy in the second. Who failed? if that is even the right question. His parents? Other family? School? Society at large? None of us are happy about what happened, and we don't want it to happen again. Understanding the answers to those questions may help us prevent it from happening again... What disturbed him so much that he threw all he had away...

Really???

*Let me preface this by saying I am not a scholar nor is it my intent to offend anyone. I just find the irony of this whole situation to be perplexing and yet somewhat comedic* 

A friend posted this and of course I had the need to respond. 

Just follow whatever your mosque is doing people. ‎#notthatdifficult

1400+ years of the Islamic Calendar and we still can't agree on moon sighting methodology? Anyone else curious why this only seems to be an issue at the beginning and end of Ramadan. You figure a day here a day there on an annual basis for 1400+ years (354 or 355 days every year) we should have multiple versions of what the Islamic date is today. Yet we seem to have one version with only one standing dispute when Ramadan starts and when Eid is celebrated every year. Otherwise... no one seems to bother... interesting...