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Shootings in Paris - MOD NOTE UPDATED - READ OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭captbarnacles


    I don't think it's that "they don't work that way". I think it more that they would not be prepared to waste their time and energy on closed minded bigots who insult their prophet, judging him by today's standards for something that was pretty much the norm 1,400 years ago and done by people of all religions as well as those who followed no religion.

    Going nowhere with this one. The prophet was apparently the perfect human being and Gods chosen messenger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 625 ✭✭✭130Kph


    Firstly, I hold up my hand now and admit I was duped for too long by 3 or 4 of the countless anti-Muslim hate sites on the 'wild west' that the internet still is. I thought I was getting the inside track on Islam that the main stream media were refusing to broadcast.

    I somehow pulled myself out of it :- but the one silver lining from this is:- I can spot people here who are brain-adled by this ugly propaganda from a mile away.

    For example, where else would an average Irish person learn about the obscure -for most Muslims- concept of Taqiya post 9/11 except from one of these American or Israeli Zionist stables of Muslim hate.

    The Zionists unfortunately are not kidding around - they are playing for very, very big stakes!!

    If the people here who are hostile to Islam & Muslims were honest and admitted that they do read one or many of these sites, I posit that this would short-circuit 90% of the discussion on this & similar threads :eek:

    Of course, the fact that 7 out of 9? of the Paris degenerates who committed this outrage were of the heritage of former French colonies is a big, big problem – anyway, a very good outline or framework approach to resolve that specific serious issue has been posted on this thread by Bannasidhe a few days ago.


    Anyway, here are some descriptions and views of one of the worst offenders on the web (from SW): Robert Spencer (of http://www.jihadwatch.org notoriety) the personification of the ugliest, ugliest aspect of the human condition: HATE

     Because Robert Spencer is a fraudulent individual who claims to be a ”scholar” and “expert” on Islam and Muslims, when in fact he is an anti-Muslim polemicist and activist who seeks to foment hate and distrust of all Muslims, especially those living in the West.

     Because Robert Spencer preys on the gullible, confused, and fearful in order to stoke the flames of hate and intolerance in their minds and hearts against Muslims at large, and Islam as a religion – rather than against terrorism and terrorists.

     Because Robert Spencer claims to be so right, everyone is afraid to debate him and prove him wrong; yet, he consistently prefers to play dumb in turning a blind-eye to our calls for a debate, knowing that it would spell the end of his 15 minutes of fraudulent fame and deception.



    “[Robert Spencer] has no academic training in Islamic studies whatsoever; his M.A. degree was in the field of early Christianity”

    “The publications of Spencer belong to the class of Islamophobic extremism that is promoted and supported by right-wing organizations, who are perpetuating a type of bigotry similar to anti-Semitism and racial prejudice. They are to be viewed with great suspicion by anyone who wishes to find reliable and scholarly information on the subject of Islam.”

    “[Robert Spencer] uses the Internet to spread misinformation and hatred of Islam and presents a ‘skewed, one-sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict’.” - Benazir Bhutto (Late Prime Minister of Pakistan)

    “Robert Spencer is an extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser.”

    “Mr. Spencer espouses a view of Islam as a system of belief which is essentially violent, undemocratic, totalitarian, exclusive and at war with all non-Muslims. Mr. Spencer in fact goes as far as to equate Islam with fascism.”

    “Robert Spencer is an anti-Muslim blogger…And yes, I do mean ‘anti-Muslim’ — Spencer long ago crossed the line from simply criticizing radical Islamists to relentlessly demonizing all Muslims. And the bigoted, hateful comments he allows at his website are beyond disgusting.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,080 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    Na. I find it useful to observe the other end of the spectrum every now and then.

    So what are your thoughts on this spectrum?
    http://www.politics.ie/forum/europe/243205-prominent-muslim-ireland-proved-wrong-about-terror-europe.html#post9745799


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,782 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Sure obviously my heart goes out to everybody died in these countries , but I have a more visceral response towards people who died in France due it's proximity to my country and how incongruous it seems that a mass slaughter took place there. The First of it's kind since the Second World War.

    Without particularly wanting to raise other matters, you do have to consider the events of the Algerian War, when thousands of people died in Mainland France.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War#Death_toll

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961 - see also second event on 8 February 1962

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Vitry-Le-Fran%C3%A7ois_train_bombing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Uncle Ben


    conorhal wrote: »

    I think you'll find your mate was banned earlier. Page 502 or 03 I think.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    People still calling for Islam/Muslims to be kicked out of Europe?

    The ringleader was doing drugs and drinking, hardly the preserve of a Muslim.

    The old 'do as I say, not as I do'. Plenty of them in the Christian church also.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    People still calling for Islam/Muslims to be kicked out of Europe?

    The ringleader was doing drugs and drinking, hardly the preserve of a Muslim.

    They pick and choose which bits to follow while expecting others to follow everything, and people say they aren't integrating :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    They pick and choose which bits to follow while expecting others to follow everything, and people say they aren't integrating :pac:

    Well they better be careful, if they wipe all of the intended out they won't be able to do that anymore!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    People still calling for Islam/Muslims to be kicked out of Europe?

    The ringleader was doing drugs and drinking, hardly the preserve of a Muslim.
    The old 'do as I say, not as I do'. Plenty of them in the Christian church also.

    Typical of the nonsense that is associated with religion. The KSA is built on this. Their religious police, the Mutaween are controlling that country by blackmailing the Saud family due to the Princes' "indiscretions".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    I don't think it's that "they don't work that way". I think it more that they would not be prepared to waste their time and energy on closed minded bigots who insult their prophet, judging him by today's standards for something that was pretty much the norm 1,400 years ago and done by people of all religions as well as those who followed no religion.
    Ah the irony of appealing to moral relativism, for a man who created a religion that absolutely doesn't believe in it.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Muhammed considered a good example for Muslims to follow.
    There was no time limit or time based context put on this.
    If his actions were worthy of following back then, then they are worthy of following right now, unless the passage in the Quran suddenly change.

    Can you show us that proof that all religions at the time endorsed having sex with children?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭DubVelo


    130Kph wrote: »
    For example, where else would an average Irish person learn about the obscure -for most Muslims- concept of Taqiya post 9/11 except from one of these American or Israeli Zionist stables of Muslim hate.

    If the people here who are hostile to Islam & Muslims were honest and admitted that they do read one or many of these sites, I posit that this would short-circuit 90% of the discussion on this & similar threads :eek:

    I don't know if that was partially directed at me 'cos I mentioned taqiyah?
    That was a lot of words to say;

    'OMG if you don't love Islam you're RACIST/ZIONIST/IGNORANT!?! :eek:'.

    I'm sorry if you formed your opinions based on questionable sources on the internet. Glad you're over it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,080 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Uncle Ben wrote: »
    I think you'll find your mate was banned earlier. Page 502 or 03 I think.

    The point still stands, there are those that attack the messenger but resolutely ignore the message.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Ah the irony of appealing to moral relativism, for a man who created a religion that absolutely doesn't believe in it.
    Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Muhammed considered a good example for Muslims to follow.
    There was no time limit or time based context put on this.
    If his actions were worthy of following back then, then they are worthy of following right now, unless the passage in the Quran suddenly change.

    Can you show us that proof that all religions at the time endorsed having sex with children?

    All Religions of the time is impossible as we do not have the information. Many of the religions do not exist anymore or did not have 'Holy' book of instructions in the way that the Abrahamic Religions do.

    There is a passage in the Talmud (Yebhamot 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.” ) that is open to interpretation - Talmudic scholars say it is an allegory, others (mostly anti-Semites such as certain far right web sites) claim the passage is a licence to be a paedophile.

    In a website run for and by Jewish victims of sexual abuse there is a discussion on the passage http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.ie/2005/02/under-talmudic-law-sexual-use-of-girls.html

    The Old Testament has a fair bit to say about raping virgins (e.g. Numbers 31:7-18) It's not against it but the rapist must marry their victim. The OT doesn't seem to specifically say anything about sex with children, but most girls were married off soon after they had their first period which can be as young as 9 - 'virgins' in a Biblical context means unmarried so the virgins the Israelites are being told to rape are unmarried girls who most likely are pre-pubescent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    Anachrony wrote: »
    Not accepting unlimited refugees from a culture with vastly different values and social mores is not a "punishment". That would imply that anyone from anywhere has a right to move wherever they like, and that right is being taken away, but no such right exists. Immigration is a privilege, so turning it down it is no punishment. Deporting them once they've already become a citizen would be a punishment. But countries first obligation is to look out for their own citizens, and they have no obligation to accept immigrants from other countries that are detrimental to the needs of the of the current population.

    Why is it always all or none. Can we just agree to ignore anyone who presents and argument for either? Unlimited means umlimited but there is obviously a limit to how many people can live in Europe and other bounds on how many we should accept. I have no idea if there are enough refugees to let in before we hit this bound but we should be aware of it and discuss in case.

    Given that letting no refugees in could lead in a big upsurge in support for ISIS and is a horrible thing to do anyway can we kill that idea too.

    Then all we need to do is to A: figure how governments can actually combat these groups without them gaining more recruits.

    B: Try and figure out what checks and balances we need on the borders so we at least try and catch any dumb enough to attempt to come in that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    People still calling for Islam/Muslims to be kicked out of Europe?

    The ringleader was doing drugs and drinking, hardly the preserve of a Muslim.

    That's ok according to them, since it's part of their cover, sort of speak.

    The 9/11 hijackers also visited Vegas plenty of times, drank, parties,...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    You conveniently left out verse 5:34, probably didn't suit your agenda. Here, let me add it for you


    Wage war against Allah (swt) and his messenger (pbuh) in interpreted to mean to attempt to over throw an Islamic state. Also please note that there are different punishments for listed ranging from death to banishment.

    If the anybody tried to overthrow the US, Uk Irish etc governments by force what do you think would be the outcome?

    Tommy, are you a Muslim? I ask because you use SWT after Allah and PBUH after Muhammed. If you are Muslim, that is fair enough, but if you are not a Muslim then I have to ask why you do this? If it is just to respect someone else's beliefs that you do not believe in, then in future posts could I ask that you respect my Pastafarian beliefs and also use the acronym PBTTGSM (Praise Be To The Great Spaghetti Monster), whenever you reply to my comments. Thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 625 ✭✭✭130Kph


    DubVelo wrote: »
    I don't know if that was partially directed at me 'cos I mentioned taqiyah?
    No, it wasn’t directed at you (you may have been the most recent, I don’t know?). I think I’ve read most posts on this thread and I think at least 3 or 4 different contributors mentioned taqiyah over the course of the last week. That’s all !!
    DubVelo wrote: »
    'OMG if you don't love Islam you're RACIST/ZIONIST/IGNORANT!?! :eek:'.
    This is not what I implied earlier. In fact it’s a laughable strawman. Let me put it this way:-

    When I was propagandised by anti-Muslim websites - whenever I saw a niqab wearing woman (everything covered except a slit for her eyes) in the Crescent shopping centre in Limerick, I thought – that lady is actually giving me two fingers. i.e. she hates my culture.

    But now that I realise that this was Zionist propaganda on the internet - I see this lady in a niqab as just a woman in another folk (/culture) dress.

    If it’ll make you feel better, I think Islam is absurd nonsense!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭Flint Fredstone


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    The Old Testament has a fair bit to say about raping virgins (e.g. Numbers 31:7-18) It's not against it but the rapist must marry their victim. The OT doesn't seem to specifically say anything about sex with children, but most girls were married off soon after they had their first period which can be as young as 9 - 'virgins' in a Biblical context means unmarried so the virgins the Israelites are being told to rape are unmarried girls who most likely are pre-pubescent.

    There's a lot of jumping to conclusions and guesswork there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Muhammed considered a good example for Muslims to follow.

    Not just a good example but THE perfect example.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    All Religions of the time is impossible as we do not have the information. Many of the religions do not exist anymore or did not have 'Holy' book of instructions in the way that the Abrahamic Religions do.

    There is a passage in the Talmud (Yebhamot 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.” ) that is open to interpretation - Talmudic scholars say it is an allegory, others (mostly anti-Semites such as certain far right web sites) claim the passage is a licence to be a paedophile.

    In a website run for and by Jewish victims of sexual abuse there is a discussion on the passage http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.ie/2005/02/under-talmudic-law-sexual-use-of-girls.html

    The Old Testament has a fair bit to say about raping virgins (e.g. Numbers 31:7-18) It's not against it but the rapist must marry their victim. The OT doesn't seem to specifically say anything about sex with children, but most girls were married off soon after they had their first period which can be as young as 9 - 'virgins' in a Biblical context means unmarried so the virgins the Israelites are being told to rape are unmarried girls who most likely are pre-pubescent.

    Cool, so all religions are equally garbage and should be outlawed for the mentally ill cults that they are.

    "An invisible spaceman and/or his buddies told me to do things!". We really are an idiotic species.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Peist2007 wrote: »
    So you want the free movement of persons pillar of the EU removed (or at least amended). You want the UN to revamp their Human Rights legislation. I suspect constant surveillance of persons without any criminal records or leanings would require changes to privacy laws also and data protection. Anything else?

    Free to leave anytime they like,we didnt force them here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    Nodin wrote: »
    But according to you earlier, they're out to attack people. Now they just recruit in "ghettoes" and they don't do anything? Is most of jihadi activity in France made up of social evenings and poker games? You've now said that they aren't under surveillance.......what's stopping them?

    Well i have never planned a terrorist attack,so i am not sure to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Belgium have put Brussels onto the highest terrorist threat level, that means an imminent attack is expected. People in Brussels are being told not to gather in groups and not to attend any events in the capital.
    Brussels has been closed down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    Anyone want to to bet that al-Baghdadi is dead?


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


    Well i have never planned a terrorist attack,so i am not sure to be honest.

    Not being able to flesh out your own narrative doesn't really help it in the believability stakes tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    There's a lot of jumping to conclusions and guesswork there.

    Let's just ignore the bits about sex with three year olds in the Talmud and the instructions to rape virgins in the OT and how they are open to interpretation and could be used to justify raping children and focus on disputing my interpretation of what in the Antique World constituted a virgin shall we?

    Jolly good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭zeffabelli


    Ignoring this fight is based in religion is willfull denial.

    Yea history has proven time and again evil has been justified by the belief in the orders of the supernatural.

    It's like saying the Magdalene laundries had nothing to do with Catholicism. Yes they did.

    And this has to do with Islam.

    People are denying it because they themselves don't want to share psychological proximity with the monsters because they themselves believe in the supernatural.

    The fundamentalists Christians in the US are funding Israel because of a biblical apocalyptic vision they want to see manifest.

    Don't tell me Isis has nothing to do with Islam.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    zeffabelli wrote: »
    Ignoring this fight is based in religion is willfull denial.

    Yea history has proven time and again evil has been justified by the belief in the orders of the supernatural.

    It's like saying the Magdalene laundries had nothing to do with Catholicism. Yes they did.

    And this has to do with Islam.

    People are denying it because they themselves don't want to share psychological proximity with the monsters because they themselves believe in the supernatural.

    The fundamentalists Christians in the US are funding Israel because of a biblical apocalyptic vision they want to see manifest.

    Don't tell me Isis has nothing to do with Islam.

    Has anyone on this thread actually said 'Isis has nothing to do with Islam'?

    Genuine question as if they have I haven't seen it but I have been busy so could have missed it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭zeffabelli


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    All Religions of the time is impossible as we do not have the information. Many of the religions do not exist anymore or did not have 'Holy' book of instructions in the way that the Abrahamic Religions do.

    There is a passage in the Talmud (Yebhamot 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.” ) that is open to interpretation - Talmudic scholars say it is an allegory, others (mostly anti-Semites such as certain far right web sites) claim the passage is a licence to be a paedophile.

    In a website run for and by Jewish victims of sexual abuse there is a discussion on the passage http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.ie/2005/02/under-talmudic-law-sexual-use-of-girls.html

    The Old Testament has a fair bit to say about raping virgins (e.g. Numbers 31:7-18) It's not against it but the rapist must marry their victim. The OT doesn't seem to specifically say anything about sex with children, but most girls were married off soon after they had their first period which can be as young as 9 - 'virgins' in a Biblical context means unmarried so the virgins the Israelites are being told to rape are unmarried girls who most likely are pre-pubescent.

    Judaism allows for multiple interpretations as well as jumps in translations. The Torah enshrines debate.

    The less flexibility in interpretation a religion is, the more fundamentalist it is.

    Extreme religion is black and white thinking and black and white thinking is comforting because unstable meaning causes anxiety and creates uncertainty.

    To view rape in the light of contemporary morality is a bit silly as it is only recently recognised as something criminal and abhorrent.

    Before farming, no one really understood where babies came from so Virgin births were pretty common. They thought it was like how pollen creates flowers.

    I'm not really sure either virgin gad the same meaning it has today. So we have gaps in time and gaps in translation at play here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    zeffabelli wrote: »
    Judaism allows for multiple interpretations as well as jumps in translations. The Torah enshrines debate.

    The less flexibility in interpretation a religion is, the more fundamentalist it is.

    Extreme religion is black and white thinking and black and white thinking is comforting because unstable meaning causes anxiety and creates uncertainty.

    To view rape in the light of contemporary morality is a bit silly as it is only recently recognised as something criminal and abhorrent.

    Before farming, no one really understood where babies came from so Virgin births were pretty common. They thought it was like how pollen creates flowers.

    I'm not really sure either virgin gad the same meaning it has today. So we have gaps in time and gaps in translation at play here.

    Religious texts are open to interpretation and religious texts can be used to 'justify' extremism.
    They are also subject to the vagaries of translation unless one is fluent in the language they were originally written it - and an original text can be found.

    I have no intention debating theology or interpretation or whether the word 'Alma' means 'young woman' or 'virgin' - I will leave that to Biblical, Rabbinical and Islamic scholars. From my perspective it's all a crock of ancient crap.

    I was responding to a question re: religions 'condoning' child sex. A brief search showed there is a passage in the Talmud that is highly questionable but Rabbinical scholars say it is allegorical and not intended to be taken literally. Other people claim it is being used to condone paedophilia. I posted some information on that passage and the OT advocating the rape of virgins. If anyone wants to believe that every virgin in ancient times was over 18 then they are welcome to do so - as unlikely as that is.

    That ends my involvement in this particular tangent.


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