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Terrorist Attack in Manchester (Read MOD WARNING in OP Updated 24/05/2017))

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Some of the comments on this thread show a shocking level of naivety.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    DERICKOO wrote: »
    what a lot of bollox just return to original country drop them offf . we know how don't we

    Well then the UK would have been sending this guy back to... the UK.

    I think it might be have topped 50 times that this has been pointed out by now in this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Il Fascista


    Some of the comments on this thread show a shocking level of naivety.




    It's not a matter of a lack of information, it's a lack of a desire to be receptive to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭Willie Stroker 1976


    kopite386 wrote: »
    Olivia Campbell who was 15 years old confirmed dead by her mother, she was one of the missing girls, her mother had appealed for information on BBC earlier today.
    I believe this takes the death toll now to 23 but I'm not sure

    Seen her mam on Good Morning Britain this morning And again in Sky News, got attached too it and been checking 2-3 times an hour throughout the day. just seen Olivia was confirmed dead not long ago, devastated , not only for Olivia but for everyone affected. Scary that this is happening on our doorstep too. Can only hope it wont make it's way to Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    It's not a matter of a lack of information, it's a lack of a desire to be receptive to it.

    I used to believe that but so many liberals have their fingers deep in their ears most of the time and so I think with some of them it's quite genuine..... like in the case of Ben Affleck for example, you can see he actually believes the nonsense he's coming out with, to the point of anger. Virtue signalling is a strong impulse for the guy, I get that... but I do think he's being sincere.. bless him.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,448 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    When did we import that inane binary use of the word 'liberal'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,283 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    Rightly or wrongly, the way the allies divvied up the world after the defeat of Hitler, all the land redistribution etc is at the root of all the current problems.

    For people saying Islam is this horror religion full of nutcase ideology, where were all terrorist attacks until the late 1970's?
    Nowhere. It's when the Soviet Union and USA started messing in the region with the proxy Cold War that things got out of hand.
    Islamic forces in some form or another have been attacking Europe for a long time before the 1970's.
    To paint this as a 20th century problem in historically inaccurate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    Mosques and Muslim representatives need to be a it more vocal in condemning these attacks.

    I've yet to see one march from Europeanised Muslims calling for and end to the terrorist attacks.

    The open attack from main stream media on Christianity is terrible when compared to their complete lack of coverage on the dark side of Islam.

    Naked women protesting on behalf of Muslim causes. The irony of that... I sometimes think the women are trolling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,654 ✭✭✭Infini


    Seen her mam on Good Morning Britain this morning And again in Sky News, got attached too it and been checking 2-3 times an hour throughout the day. just seen Olivia was confirmed dead not long ago, devastated , not only for Olivia but for everyone affected. Scary that this is happening on our doorstep too. Can only hope it wont make it's way to Ireland.

    Hopefully it never comes here to be honest but these kinda of attacks by the Darwin Award Nominee Brigade are certainly building up animosity towards the Muslim community even though the vast majority are harmless.

    That being said there's plenty of people out there wondering why is it always what seems to be rejects from the Muslim community always doing this? No other ethnic group seemingly has this problem. It's like that community is having issue's integrating into the host society or something.

    Honestly its a complicated problem not least because of how insidious it is in targeting people. It's sadly also the kind of problem that has the majority of Europeans feeling justifiably of the view that we shouldn't be taking these refugees either as they're afraid of this happening.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Some of the comments on this thread show a shocking level of naivety.



    Ben Shapiro is hardly an authority on Islam or without bias - He's a right-wing pundit, former Steve Bannon bff and his target audience are right-wing people.

    Granted I actually think he's a reasonable enough guy (at times).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭thierry14


    old_aussie wrote: »

    F*cking Scum

    Time for the "Good muslims" to do something to prevent their religion from being banned in the future.

    They should ban all religions in schools for a start

    All a load of made up bollox

    Hopefully we will discover other life soon and answers from that will hopefully sink every religion

    I really dont know how else this can be fixed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    The problem is not regular Muslims on the streets of Manchester. Or Europe for that matter.

    Yes Saudi is the key. Ban any money going from Saudi to Western European countries to build mosques or religious schools.

    Ban their Royal Family from travelling into Western countries, owning property there or investing in Westen Stock Markets.

    Pump hundreds of billions onto alternative energy and particularly extended battery cell life Technology.

    And bite the bullet that we ultimately need to go nuclear for fuel.

    Turn that country into a pariah state.

    Your point is so ridiculous on so many levels.

    You are suggesting that all these problems between western culture and the Muslim world have somehow come about because of a fight for energy, whatever form that energy takes.

    You say that if we don't depend on oil then that would release us from any interaction with the middle east, and they can just have at it by themselves.

    Yes, lets just develop solar power, and all the energy problems, faith issues , cultural issues, will all just disappear overnight.

    The problem is exactly and precisely the ordinary Muslims on the streets on Manchester. To deny that fact is to stick you neck in the sand.

    If we can't even acknowledge what the problem is , and make an attempt to fix it, there is no way it can ever be solved.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    I would not like to be Muslim in Manchester after this Attack with the pitchfork mob it will not be safe for Muslim there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Il Fascista


    Ben Shapiro is hardly an authority on Islam or without bias - He's a right-wing pundit, former Steve Bannon bff and his target audience are right-wing people.

    Granted I actually think he's a reasonable enough guy (at times).

    The right are bad, I know, but Ben didn't do the polling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Ben Shapiro is hardly an authority on Islam or without bias - He's a right-wing pundit, former Steve Bannon bff and his target audience are right-wing people.

    Granted I actually think he's a reasonable enough guy (at times).

    The right are bad, I know, but Ben didn't do the polling.

    Polling? You mean the bullshit "facts" he derives from "statistics"?
    He "proves" that there are  2.2 million radical muslims living in Britain? How does he do this you might ask? well there are 2.8 million Muslims living there and some poll said that 78% of people wanted cartoonists of Mohammed legally prosecuted.......imagine if he added the people who didn't want them prosecuted but wanted them to be killed......Maybe would bring it up to 2.9 million..
    Check his wikipedia page if you'd like to find out more about him and come back and let us know whether you think he does or does not have an agenda


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Gamebred wrote: »
    22 people die in the west and everybody loses their mind, I'd say drone attacks in the middle east have killed twice that in the last week alone, when will they light up the Eiffel tower in them countries colours...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1728 :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    endacl wrote: »
    When did we import that inane binary use of the word 'liberal'?
    I don't mind it, makes it easier to tell the breitbart and info wars crowd from the rest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Il Fascista


    Polling? You mean the bullshit "facts" he derives from "statistics"?
    He "proves" that there are  2.2 million radical muslims living in Britain? How does he do this you might ask? well there are 2.8 million Muslims living there and some poll said that 78% of people wanted cartoonists of Mohammed legally prosecuted.......imagine if he added the people who didn't want them prosecuted but wanted them to be killed......Maybe would bring it up to 2.9 million..
    Check his wikipedia page if you'd like to find out more about him and come back and let us know whether you think he does or does not have an agenda

    I follow Ben, and I don't doubt that he has an agenda. I was just pointing out that he's not the source of the original polling data.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Check his wikipedia page if you'd like to find out more about him
    Shapiro proposed expelling the Palestinian population from the West Bank.

    Jewish Zionist proposes ethnic cleansing of Muslim population from where they've lived for generations. Yes I wrote Jewish. He's Jewish.

    I guess that makes me anti-Semitic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    I would not like to be Muslim in Manchester after this Attack with the pitchfork mob it will not be safe for Muslim there.

    Oh the poor Muslims...not a word from you about the kids blown to pieces...fcuk them Yeh?...Think of the poor Muslims this might affect...your sick.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Jewish Zionist proposes ethnic cleansing of Muslim population from where they've lived for generations. Yes I wrote Jewish. He's Jewish.

    I guess that makes me anti-Semitic?

    Perhaps quote him in full no?
    The Jews don't realize that expelling a hostile population is a commonly used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements. There are no gas chambers here. It's not genocide; it's transfer. It's not Hitler; it's Churchill. After World War II, Poland was recreated by the Allied Powers. In doing so, the Allies sliced off a chunk of Germany and extended Poland west to the Oder-Neisse line. Anywhere from 3.5 million to 9 million Germans were forcibly expelled from the new Polish territory and relocated in Germany... The Germans accepted the new border, and decades of conflict between Poles and Germans ended...if Germans, who had a centuries-old connection to the newly created Polish territory, could be expelled, then surely Palestinians, whose claim to Judea, Samaria and Gaza is dubious at best, can be expelled

    Not something I would agree with but too often words are taken out of context to paint someone in the worst light.

    Anyway, why are we talking about Jews and the West Bank?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Polling? You mean the bullshit "facts" he derives from "statistics"?
    He "proves" that there are  2.2 million radical muslims living in Britain? How does he do this you might ask? well there are 2.8 million Muslims living there and some poll said that 78% of people wanted cartoonists of Mohammed legally prosecuted.......imagine if he added the people who didn't want them prosecuted but wanted them to be killed......Maybe would bring it up to 2.9 million..
    Check his wikipedia page if you'd like to find out more about him and come back and let us know whether you think he does or does not have an agenda

    I follow Ben, and I don't doubt that he has an agenda. I was just pointing out that he's not the source of the original polling data.

    But he is blatantly misrepresenting it.
    Someone who holds the opinion that a cartoonist should face legal prosecution for drawing cartoons of Mohammed is not a definite proof of radical Islam.....it isn't even a proof of Islam.......if it was, it would mean that anyone who had any support for the Irish blasphemy law was a radical Islamist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    markodaly wrote: »
    Perhaps quote him in full no?

    I quoted the bit where he's proposing ethnic cleansing of Muslims from the West Bank. Do you support ethnic cleansing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Billy86 wrote: »
    The US (and many western countries) isn't totally to blame by a long, long shot, but they did a lot of the funding for the House of Saud who used that money to build schools, hospitals and all other forms of infrastructure across the middle east with a very strong Wahhabist influence. Wahhabism has been around for over 300 years, but has only really become relevant since the discovery and exploitation of oil in the region over the last 50-60.

    This doesn't make much sense to me. The Saudi's sold their oil and they profited off it. To blame whomever gave them the money for the oil for what the person/state did with the money is frankly ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    I quoted the bit where he's proposing ethnic cleansing of Muslims from the West Bank. Do you support ethnic cleansing?

    So, you admit you are deliberately taking a quote out of context, not only that you are very aware of what you are doing and go ahead regardless in posting it up here because its convenient for you.

    Posts like that is indicative in what is wrong with the web today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,116 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    markodaly wrote: »
    So, you admit you are deliberately taking a quote out of context, not only that you are very aware of what you are doing and go ahead regardless in posting it up here because its convenient for you.

    Posts like that is indicative in what is wrong with the web today.
    Do you support ethnic cleansing?



    Answer the question: Do you support the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from the West Bank?

    Yes or no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Answer the question: Do you support the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from the West Bank?

    Yes or no?

    So this is where you play your games and try to dodge the fact that you are deliberately posting half quotes and half truths as its ideologically suitable for you. Posts like that is what is wrong with the Web.

    I already answered the question by the way, I know that you know that but hey, cause enough drama you think you might get away with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod- Ok we've had pages of crap about the IRA. Lets not go down the same rabbit hole with Israel/Palestine. Take it to one of the politics forums if ye wish to discuss it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 56 ✭✭muppetshow


    european governments are doing what they can, but they are unlikely to "do something about it" in the way you would like.

    Really,so me and and 700 million people dont want them to do something about it.And what way would i like them to handle it,since you are the proclaimed expert.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 56 ✭✭muppetshow


    ......... wrote: »
    That doesn't answer the question, what is hard man about it as the poster claimed ?

    It answers mine,but not your leftie twisted minds.


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