Steve Jobs Was The Son Of A Syrian Refugee

[Turborama]

Occupy Democrats
I bet most of your friends don't know this.

"Steve Jobs’ biological father, Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, was born in 1931 to a prominent Syrian family, the youngest of nine children. He grew up in Homs, Syria, a city since ravaged by the nation’s civil war."

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[jberryhill]

1. Well, now we know

If we let them in, then they will expand their plot to make our devices obsolete every four years.

They already took YouTube off of my Apple TV!

[Galileo126]

3. LOL!

"Steve Jobs" ...making the world safe for average Americans to buy shit they don't need, at prices they can't afford, all the while exploiting kids in China and engineers in the USA to make Jobs a freaking saint.

Sometimes I have to complain. Jobs is/was a dick.

[smirkymonkey]

4. *snort*

[PeoViejo]

14. ...and pay too much for the experience

..figures..

[persuadable]

17. So what does that prove

[riversedge]

2. Very telling as it shows how long Syria has been unsettled-at war.

[pampango]

5. Past immigrants/refugees = GOOD. Current/future immigrants/refugees = BAD.

Every generation has the same attitude. We are really not that different from earlier American generations.

[pampango]

6. Sorry. I meant to respond to the OP, not to you.

[riversedge]

7. No problem.

[GummyBearz]

8. That would be the father who didn't want him right?

His adopted parents seemed to love him

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. His biological mother's parents wouldn't let her

marry his father because he was Syrian. They eventually did marry though and Steve has a biological sister, Mona Simpson, who is a writer.

[Person 2713]

12. Wow @ comment but do not forget his white American biological mother who signed the papers

to give him up for adoption to please her parents
Hope you don't

[oberliner]

9. No he wasn't

His parents were Paul and Clara Jobs.

It is really insulting when people are dismissive of someone's parents just because they became parents via adoption.

To quote his biography:

Jobs would become upset when Paul and Clara were referred to as "adoptive parents" as they "were my parents 1,000%."

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

18. Thank you.

Adoption has occurred in our family.

I am his mother.

He is my child.

He's not my "adopted" child. That word has absolutely no place as a general descriptive of my child.

It's disgusting to read of the word "adopted son of" or "adopted daughter" of as if they will always be just a little bit...less.

[oberliner]

32. Well put

Thank you for sharing that.

[Turborama]

20. Notice how it mentioned "biological father".

I can't see anything in it that "dismisses" his adoptive parents. In fact, the article that is linked to actually uses the quote you did.

"Years later, Jobs would “bristle whenever anyone referred to Paul and Clara Jobs as his `adoptive’ parents or implied that they were not his `real’ parents,” Isaacson wrote. Jobs, who died in 2011, instead referred to his biological parents as “my sperm and egg bank.”"

[oberliner]

31. Not on the image

And that's what is going viral.

[Turborama]

33. The article comes with the image.

[closeupready]

11. Bigots here will give 1001 excuses (like 1001 nights) why the analogy fails.

[Yavin4]

13. Eh...maybe not the best example

[Mosby]

15. lol!

[valerief]

19. Great bit. I never got the Jobs is God bullshit either. He stole the mouse from

Xerox and was stupid enough to let Gates steal it from him. That's how I remember Jobs.

[Yavin4]

21. He didn't steal anything from Xerox.

He did what the rappers call, "sampling".

[valerief]

23. Ha! Okay, Xerox was stupid enough to not value the invention and let Jobs "sample" it. nt

[RockaFowler]

16. I am the daughter of an Egyptian Refugee

My father came to this country through France in 1962
He was a refugee from the oppressive Egyptian regime at the time

The way people today talk about Syrians is just sickening to me
Not everyone who lives in the Middle East is a terrorist

[potone]

22. Of course you are right.

I'm afraid that that prejudice is going to get worse after the Paris attacks, even though it seems that European citizens were the attackers. But we have gone through these waves of immigrant and refugee bashing before, and come out the other side of it. Obama is holding strong on the necessity of separating refugees from terrorists. But this is just one more reason why it is imperative that the Republican do not win the White House.

[RockaFowler]

25. Very true!

[Yorktown]

35. At the time, Saudis had not been busy radicalizing Muslims

Over the past 30 years, they have spent 90 billions promoting radical Islam.

So it does impact the average outlook of the average potential immigrant from 'muslim' countries where wahhabi ideology has been pumped in.

This should warrant a gradual and cautious way of welcoming in people coming from countries subjected to this ideological influence.

[libdem4life]

24. Unless we are Native American, we are all of refugee lineage. This "I got mine...sucks to be you"

gets old. I am of Irish-German heritage who just happened to be born in the US. My maternal great-grandfather lost his land when they put up the Berlin Wall, at least that is what I was told.

[Old Union Guy]

26. And a Muslim? n/t

[whathehell]

27. So there!!

[Indydem]

28. Nope. Wrong.

Abdulfattah “John” Jandali was not a refugee. He was the son of a self made millionaire. He immigrated, legally, to America.

Nice try though.

[patsimp]

29. some refugees are criminals blowing up the Boston Marathon. What's your point?

[LiberalArkie]

30. There you gone and crossed the line. Now Samsung and PC users everywhere will want to deny

all Syrian refugees access to the U.S. I guess somehow the operating system war had to get into this.

[Yorktown]

34. One sparrow doesn't a spring make

Can't draw general rules from one isolated -happy- incident.

Besides, at the time, the Saudis had not been pumping 90 billion dollars over 30 years to radicalize Islam worldwide.

fyi, ISIS just released a statement that they embedded 4000 of their fighters in the flow of 1M refugees into Europe. Do you think they will stop at the gates of Ellis Island?