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The largest ethnic cleansing in 60+ years in taking place today in Iraq

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  • #92
    carpejugulum
    Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carpejugulum


    Glock Lesnar wrote: »
    I am Irish and therefore the only thing I care about is the Palestinians
    more accurately, the only thing you care about is hating Israel


  • #93
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    According to the HP and NYT, our military has already started to bomb ISIS.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

    Don't see anything there about it.

    Says something about air strikes here but the Pentagon are denying it.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/101884104#.


  • #94
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Rightwing wrote: »
    That's all American stuff, where it's made is irrelevant.

    Go on, admit it. That little Israeli worm has burrowed its way right into your heart…


  • #95
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    Don't see anything there about it.

    Press the headline right under the photo of Obama


  • #96
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/american-forces-said-to-bomb-isis-targets-in-iraq.html

    Must have a different headline in Ireland because it is in big bold red letters:

    NYT: U.S. BOMBS ISIS


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  • #97
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Go on, admit it. That little Israeli worm has burrowed its way right into your heart…

    Not really. I don't have any problem with any random Israeli citizen. I think what their government is doing is turning the world against them, and fuelling problems for itself down the line.


  • #98
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Press the headline right under the photo of Obama

    We must be seeing a different page, I'm being redirected to the .co.uk site.


  • #99
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28351073

    The BBC have a snapshot of the minorities of the Ninevah Plain, currently being obliterated by thugs.


  • #100
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Iraqi Christians would integrate in a second.

    Outstanding performance learning English.


  • #101
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28351073

    The BBC have a snapshot of the minorities of the Ninevah Plain, currently being obliterated by thugs.

    Being obliterated by those who believe that Allah the almighty has sanctioned this and appointed them. Credit where credit is due.


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  • #102
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28351073

    The BBC have a snapshot of the minorities of the Ninevah Plain, currently being obliterated by thugs.

    The cradle of civilisation. Now devoid of such…


  • #103
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    mad muffin wrote: »
    The cradle of civilisation. Now devoid of such…


    Deep


  • #104
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    carpejugulum wrote: »
    more accurately, the only thing you care about is hating Israel
    Oh for [insert personal deity/belief system here] give it a rest. Please. It makes your cause look ridiculous.
    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Deep
    but true. When Nineveh was at it's height the rest of the region and much of the known world beyond it was composed of primitives scrabbling for life and signs in the dirt.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #105
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Cantremember wrote: »
    Outstanding performance learning English.

    Thanks. I was born in Ireland, however, to Irish parents. Themselves of Irish descent. That's as far back as I know. You're doing ..... Ok on the usage of English yourself.


  • #106
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Cantremember wrote: »
    Being obliterated by those who believe that Allah the almighty has sanctioned this and appointed them. Credit where credit is due.

    We should give them refugee status.


  • #107
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    We should give them refugee status.

    They might give us that, one day.


  • #108
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    We should give them refugee status.
    Why, when there are safe countries closer to Iraq? A person would have to move through safe countries to get to Ireland.


  • #109
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    What is going on in this thread? Is this not about the ISIS attacks on Christians in Iraq?
    I'm sorry, but the standard of debate here is very poor. This is not about Israel and the Palestinians - there are plenty of threads on that issue.
    I am also amazed how many Irosh people want to blame the US.
    Just to be clear, it is a bunch of Sunni Muslim thugs who are doing this. They are beheading people and filming it on the mobile phones.
    I hope the US protect us all from these weird vicious bastards. No one else will intervene. And yet the US will be slated.


  • #110
    Putin
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Try criticising Islamin defending the murder of children & civilians by the IDF in the Israel-Palestine thread, they'll say you're a colonalist fanatic, in Mossad, etc.

    Based on what I've read from some, I fixed the obvious typo there.


  • #111
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Putin wrote: »
    Based on what I've read from some, I fixed the obvious typo there.

    FFS!


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  • #112
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why, when there are safe countries closer to Iraq? A person would have to move through safe countries to get to Ireland.
    There is no requirement to stop at the first safe country with regards to asylum.


  • #113
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LorMal wrote: »
    What is going on in this thread? Is this not about the ISIS attacks on Christians in Iraq?
    I'm sorry, but the standard of debate here is very poor. This is not about Israel and the Palestinians - there are plenty of threads on that issue.
    I am also amazed how many Irosh people want to blame the US.
    Just to be clear, it is a bunch of Sunni Muslim thugs who are doing this. They are beheading people and filming it on the mobile phones.
    I hope the US protect us all from these weird vicious bastards. No one else will intervene. And yet the US will be slated.


    Nope.


  • #114
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Nodin wrote: »
    Nope.

    Enlighten me


  • #115
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    LorMal wrote: »
    Enlighten me

    They're a sub-sect with Sunni Islam. Wahabi-ist. They attack Sunni and Shia.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28177841

    Al Qaeda thinks they're extremists

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-too-extreme-al-qaida-terror-jihadi

    In a sense, they're almost their own sect. A nasty bunch.


  • #116
    h2005
    Registered Users Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭h2005


    Vice have the first part of a documentary up here.
    http://youtu.be/bsCZzpmbEcs


  • #117
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Try criticising Islam in the Israel-Palestine thread, they'll say you're a colonalist fanatic, in Mossad, etc.
    Strange. I criticise hardline Islam all the time, yet support the Palestinians. That probably blows the "You're 100 per cent with us or else you're agin' us" crowd's minds.


  • #118
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    Nodin wrote: »
    They're a sub-sect with Sunni Islam. Wahabi-ist. They attack Sunni and Shia.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28177841

    Al Qaeda thinks they're extremists

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-too-extreme-al-qaida-terror-jihadi

    In a sense, they're almost their own sect. A nasty bunch.

    nit picking there Nodin. I don't know why you bother. Yes, many are wahhabi but they are also a loose alliance of a number of factions, primarily drawn from disaffected Sunnis who lost power and influence after Saddams collapse.
    My point remains - these are the knuts who we need to be focusing our anger at.


  • #119
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,984 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why, when there are safe countries closer to Iraq? A person would have to move through safe countries to get to Ireland.
    what safe countries would these be

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



  • #120
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,984 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    LorMal wrote: »
    What is going on in this thread? Is this not about the ISIS attacks on Christians in Iraq?
    I'm sorry, but the standard of debate here is very poor. This is not about Israel and the Palestinians - there are plenty of threads on that issue.
    I am also amazed how many Irosh people want to blame the US.
    Just to be clear, it is a bunch of Sunni Muslim thugs who are doing this. They are beheading people and filming it on the mobile phones.
    I hope the US protect us all from these weird vicious bastards. No one else will intervene. And yet the US will be slated.
    the US won't protect us if they get a good deal on oil from extremists, oh wait, thats happening all ready

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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  • #121
    LorMal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭LorMal


    end of the road wrote: »
    the US won't protect us if they get a good deal on oil from extremists, oh wait, thats happening all ready

    What are you on about? Have you the slightest notion about what is happening there?


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