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Three dead as woman beheaded in France

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    Gradius wrote: »
    There are many people presenting the different choices these potential murderers have.

    That's a bad frame of mind.

    They shouldn't have any choices. When someone wants to move into your home, it's YOUR choice that matters, and only your choice.

    That's the way it should be. In reality it's NGOs and globalist institutions that force this on us all. I've said it elsewhere, but if there was any true democracy we'd all get a vote on our futures. They don't give us one, because they simply fear the outcome.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    I'm not buying it, I doubt a word or two to express their condolences to the victims would have had the jihadists knocking down their door.

    The cynic in me says they couldn't care less about the victims, there is a lot of hate directed towards France from muslims over the last few days even before this because of what he said recently.

    Indeed it would have the jihadists knocking on her door!!! With these fanatics, any sign of sympathy for the murder victims would not be seen in a good light. If it had been a Muslim that got killed, then yes maybe some sympathy ( but even then, it would have to be from the same branch of Islam IE: Sunni -Sunni or Shiite=Shiite) But for unbelieving infidels ??? Her son has now achieved martyrdom. And thats what the sole focus will be on, and she will be the Mother of a martyr. So you can be sure that there will not be any deviation from that path. And definitely no sympathy will be shown, because it would dilute the msg.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yet the same muslims who slate france and complain will still flood there in their droves and complain when they get there.

    haha... i'm finding this difficult. I really don't want to be defending muslims, because I really don't agree with what they've been doing in Europe.

    At the same time, though, I can't help oppose these kind of double standards. You really think westerners are any different? People complain about the government, the country, the culture, the economy, the whatever... and then expect it to save them, often to save them from something they should have been personally responsible for.

    Just as I've seen Americans or Europeans who live abroad, and spend their whole time (whenever they encounter another westerner) bitching about the country they're in. It's not anything new... and it's not something unique to Muslims.
    If they dont like it they should go home..

    I completely agree. In fact, I feel we should be deporting/expelling 60% of all foreign born Muslims from within Europe, with the remainder needing to show that they appreciate living in Europe, and are capable of living productive and respectful lives here. I suspect a lot of migrants/refugees have little actual appreciation for being able to live within Europe's borders.. but then, France needs to shut down it's guilt connection with north Africa. At least, until we have developed a working system capable to identifying troublemakers, and an effective system in place to properly integrate the remainder. Once we have some definitive answers how to co-exist, then we should allow more back in... but the current state of affairs is utterly retarded.


  • Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭John Frank Wilson


    Another *mostly peaceful assassination attempt in France:

    https://www.thejournal.ie/lyon-priest-shooting-france-5250917-Oct2020/

    Hopefully the poor man pulls through.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,147 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Let's not jump to conclusions, that priest may have been mistaken for a muslim (orthodox priests tend to have unkempt beards, especially older ones), so this may be a revenge attack. Small chance, but still.

    Either way, it's great to live in such culturally enriched times.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭85603


    As with covid.

    State action is required, even if painful and of great inconvenience at the time.

    Rather than allowing the problem to grow, the action at that later eventual time demanded by reality coming at a far far greater cost.

    They did 9/11. They got one over on that leviathan of military power and technical know-how, guarded by oceans on either side. Thousands of miles away.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    85603 wrote: »
    They did 9/11. They got one over on that leviathan of military power and technical know-how, guarded by oceans on either side. Thousands of miles away.
    And a leviathan with startling blindspots and incompetence and overwhelming hubris. The various state agencies had little cross pollination with intel and resources and they had to dig around to even find native Arabic speakers. Never mind next to no security on internal flights. It wasn't so much of a shock really. It just took some clever thinking by the terrorists to spot the now obvious holes in security and people willing to die for the cause. They're about the hardest to stop.

    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.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭85603


    Wibbs wrote: »
    And a leviathan with startling blindspots and incompetence and overwhelming hubris. The various state agencies had little cross pollination with intel and resources and they had to dig around to even find native Arabic speakers. Never mind next to no security on internal flights. It wasn't so much of a shock really. It just took some clever thinking by the terrorists to spot the now obvious holes in security and people willing to die for the cause. They're about the hardest to stop.

    No doubt Europe has plenty of those same sorts of weaknesses.

    So we're doubly vulnerable.

    Europes govts need to get on this, on a grand scale, on the double, or we'll soon have our own 911.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Yet the same muslims who slate france and complain will still flood there in their droves and complain when they get there.


    If they dont like it they should go home..


    I often wonder about this.

    I think it was very brazen of Ali Selim to demand wholesale change to our education system, just to suit Muslim students.

    If I moved to another country, and was living there a few years, I'd hardly be going on national media and requesting massive changes to their well-established education system.

    He must be very confident, or else he must have great faith that he is correct.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    Geuze wrote: »
    I often wonder about this.

    I think it was very brazen of Ali Selim to demand wholesale change to our education system, just to suit Muslim students.

    If I moved to another country, and was living there a few years, I'd hardly be going on national media and requesting massive changes to their well-established education system.

    He must be very confident, or else he must have great faith that he is correct.




    Imagine people here complaining about Saudi Arabia,
    Then they move to the very same Saudi Arabia they moan about and complain there should be changes .


    How do you think the Saudi would react ?


    Imagine if it was a woman, a white women who was non muslim , how do people think that would go.


    You have muslims leaving their own country because the dont like it, get to a new country, and try to make it the very same as the country they just left.


    Why dont they just stay where they are.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    Two reasons:

    1) Money money money

    2) “ameliorating” European demographics (i.e. joining their brothers and sisters in Europe and thus spreading Islam)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Geuze wrote: »
    He must be very confident, or else he must have great faith that he is correct.
    He is on both counts, but -and here's the big difference and what he knows all too well - we are not. On both counts.

    Us, Europe, the West in general is currently mired in a lot of breast beating about how liberal we are and apologising for ourselves and our culture and history and our general response is passivity, appeasement and what aggression is in play is mostly aimed at hounding our own. Mixed in with a tiny number of actual right wing nutters, though that may start to appeal to more and more and that's a real bloody worry. As history has shown the one demographic on the planet you really don't want to piss off and prod into action are the pale of face.

    Exceptions would be places like Poland and much of Eastern Europe. They still have that self confidence, for better and worse, whereas the Swedes for example seem to apologise for themselves just being themselves. At least their leadership does. This from a people who are one of the largest influences on how Europe developed. Which if proof were ever needed it shows genetics and "race" mean feck all.

    Now in any war of words or actual conflict, who is going to win in that setup? Would the chap mentioned have even dreamt of pulling that in 19th century Germany, Italy, Spain etc? No bloody way. Would he try it in modern Day Poland, or Slovakia, or Russia? Same answer.

    I actually don't blame him or folks like him. In his position I'd likely do the same or similar. If you keep passively standing there offering both cheeks, don't be too surprised if someone will keep slapping them.

    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.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 396 ✭✭Open the Pubs


    The French state allowed too many Muslims in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Wibbs wrote: »
    He is on both counts, but -and here's the big difference and what he knows all too well - we are not. On both counts.

    Us, Europe, the West in general is currently mired in a lot of breast beating about how liberal we are and apologising for ourselves and our culture and history and our general response is passivity, appeasement and what aggression is in play is mostly aimed at hounding our own. Mixed in with a tiny number of actual right wing nutters, though that may start to appeal to more and more and that's a real bloody worry. As history has shown the one demographic on the planet you really don't want to piss off and prod into action are the pale of face.

    Exceptions would be places like Poland and much of Eastern Europe. They still have that self confidence, for better and worse, whereas the Swedes for example seem to apologise for themselves just being themselves. At least their leadership does. This from a people who are one of the largest influences on how Europe developed. Which if proof were ever needed it shows genetics and "race" mean feck all.

    Now in any war of words or actual conflict, who is going to win in that setup? Would the chap mentioned have even dreamt of pulling that in 19th century Germany, Italy, Spain etc? No bloody way. Would he try it in modern Day Poland, or Slovakia, or Russia? Same answer.

    I actually don't blame him or folks like him. In his position I'd likely do the same or similar. If you keep passively standing there offering both cheeks, don't be too surprised if someone will keep slapping them.

    Or as it stands at the moment ( and I've said it before.... ) Democracy being the death of democracy,,especially when there is only democracy on one side...Islam is the complete opposite of democracy, but knows very well when , where and how to play the democracy card.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The French state allowed too many Muslims in.

    What's too many though?

    The real problem is the lack of intent involved with immigration practices that concern peoples whose cultural backgrounds are so different from our own. The integration of other westerners is relatively easy due to shared values, pretty similar fundamental laws, and such. The same can be said for a handful of former colonies around the world, and SE Asians who tend to merge pretty mildly into any destination.

    TBH again I think we have to blame the US in a way (well, many ways but this one for now). Racial profiling. The inability to establish profiles on peoples due to their cultural backgrounds, religions, race, etc. and it's a major obstacle to dealing with these groups, because it prevents any degree of expertise to be formed.

    We have no effective way to assimilate foreign groups (if that's desired). We have no effective way to integrate foreign groups. IMHO, throughout Europe, we've just had two decades where there's been an aversion to expecting foreigners to integrate. The expectation on multiple levels was that other cultural groups coming here, living separately to Europeans, and everything else that came with them, would just... work? Somehow. Magically. Throw money into a wide range of EU/UN departments, and NGOs, and it would just work out.

    But it hasn't. Not even slightly. And I mean that. While there are large numbers of Muslims throughout Europe who don't engage in violence, they also don't integrate much. There are large areas throughout France and Germany where the local language is an Arabic language, where the normal type of dress is not European, and even the sign posts have been changed to represent other names/references.

    Without a definitive, and proven method to establish, integrate, and adjust Muslims/migrants/refugees/etc, one is too many. It'll just come back to bite us in the ass. I'm not saying stop all immigration, but can we get our heads out of our asses, and deal with the problems that exist?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,500 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    The French state allowed too many Muslims in.

    It's a complete and utter shït hole. Import people from the third world and you end up with one.

    Sad but true. Now lessons must be learned for the rest of Europe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    Lucky for Dear Old Ireland, we'll only be getting the doctors and engineers.

    Oh yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    What's too many though?

    2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Danzy wrote: »
    Goes without saying that belief system is a terminal cancer in Europe unless it is cut out.

    This is early days and France will suffer attacks that will shock it to its core before it acts.

    All of Europe faces the same, including ourselves.

    Except Poland, rise up Winged Hussars.

    Motto: Amor Patriae Nostra Lex (Love of the fatherland is our law)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭coinop


    What's too many though?

    The real problem is the lack of intent involved with immigration practices that concern peoples whose cultural backgrounds are so different from our own.

    I stopped reading there. Victim blaming drivel. It's not our responsibility to change to accommodate primitive sand people who live like it's the year 1245.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭coinop


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    If there was any true democracy we'd all get a vote on our futures. They don't give us one, because they simply fear the outcome.

    The closest the Irish people have ever gotten to a referendum on the immigration question was the 2004 Citizenship referendum. A landslide 79% of voters agreed to change the constitution so that anchor babies born on Irish soil would no longer be automatically considered Irish. From reading posts on here you would swear the entire country is all for refugees welcome but that doesn't line up with reality. The push back against Direct Provision centers in homogenous Irish villages in the West of Ireland was another tell tale sign that Paddy has observed the destruction and suffering immigration has caused in France, Germany and the UK and we are determined to not make the same mistakes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,384 ✭✭✭raclle


    Danzy wrote: »
    This is early days and France will suffer attacks that will shock it to its core before it acts.

    All of Europe faces the same, including ourselves.
    Why don't we all do something about it now than let it manifest?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    raclle wrote: »
    Why don't we all do something about it now than let it manifest?

    Because modern European politics is all about optics and being reactive, rather than vision and being proactive.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    coinop wrote: »
    I stopped reading there.

    Well... that's the other problem. Closed minds. Unwilling to read a paragraph or two, for fear it might contradict with your own opinions.
    Victim blaming drivel. It's not our responsibility to change to accommodate primitive sand people who live like it's the year 1245.

    Duh. Perhaps you should have read more than one sentence then?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    It's a complete and utter shït hole. Import people from the third world and you end up with one.

    Sad but true. Now lessons must be learned for the rest of Europe.

    It's not a **** hole. It's still a great country. Kinda. It's got a lot of positives to it, although the negatives are growing.. but TBF some of them are easily resolved. Just takes some balls to stand up to the EU and the UN.

    Deport all useless non-native (native being French born) fcks, be prepared to reject citizenship based on behavior, tighten immigration, monitor all non-natives until they have proven (somehow) of their loyalty to the country. Just means telling all the virtue signalling politicians, NGO's, etc to piss off.

    I've spent a lot of time in France at different periods of my life, and it can be an absolutely wonderful country to relax for a month or two. Wouldn't want to live there fulltime, but that's more to do with their Tax, local laws, and unions.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    coinop wrote: »
    The closest the Irish people have ever gotten to a referendum on the immigration question was the 2004 Citizenship referendum. A landslide 79% of voters agreed to change the constitution so that anchor babies born on Irish soil would no longer be automatically considered Irish. From reading posts on here you would swear the entire country is all for refugees welcome but that doesn't line up with reality. The push back against Direct Provision centers in homogenous Irish villages in the West of Ireland was another tell tale sign that Paddy has observed the destruction and suffering immigration has caused in France, Germany and the UK and we are determined to not make the same mistakes.

    It's not the belief that the Irish people want more immigration... It's that our political elite, and various government bodies have been hellbent on pushing the immigration line for decades now, regardless of what the population actually wants. It's the weakness of Irish democracy. When most of the parties like to show their virtue by importing low skilled labor, voting a party out doesn't make much of an impact. We also have a very vocal segment of society/media who want more immigrants to relieve us of our white guilt, and justify their needs for self-flagellation over racism and privilege.

    The political parties are very good at doing what they want once they get into power (irrespective of the desires of the Electorate), and Irish people are very good at forgetting or forgiving what they did after a few years (FF remaining as a active party shows that....)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    old_aussie wrote: »
    Except Poland, rise up Winged Hussars.

    Motto: Amor Patriae Nostra Lex (Love of the fatherland is our law)

    Poland actually has a small but long established indigenous muslin population descended from Tatar soldiers in the service of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth. But as they've successfully integrated into Polish society the new arrivals consider them apostates.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭seenitall


    It's not a **** hole. It's still a great country. Kinda. It's got a lot of positives to it, although the negatives are growing.. but TBF some of them are easily resolved. Just takes some balls to stand up to the EU and the UN.

    Deport all useless non-native (native being French born) fcks, be prepared to reject citizenship based on behavior, tighten immigration, monitor all non-natives until they have proven (somehow) of their loyalty to the country. Just means telling all the virtue signalling politicians, NGO's, etc to piss off.

    I've spent a lot of time in France at different periods of my life, and it can be an absolutely wonderful country to relax for a month or two. Wouldn't want to live there fulltime, but that's more to do with their Tax, local laws, and unions.

    I think it would be fair to say that France is a major mover and shaker in both the EU and the UN. I don’t think it would take a huge amount of balls for them to take a stand, I think their problem is more in their mentality of kicking the can down the road. Who likes making hard decisions of any magnitude? It is obvious to a blind man that the situation won’t be resolved without a relatively major sacrifice on their part, and most European nations have long since lost a taste for sacrifice of any kind. Let alone the French, who are famously in love with prosperity and hedonism :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    Geuze wrote: »
    I often wonder about this.

    I think it was very brazen of Ali Selim to demand wholesale change to our education system, just to suit Muslim students.

    If I moved to another country, and was living there a few years, I'd hardly be going on national media and requesting massive changes to their well-established education system.

    He must be very confident, or else he must have great faith that he is correct.

    It's neither of those.
    It's the dopes in RTE sanctioning these guys to spout their nonsense on national TV with an air of credibility attached in an interview setting.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,167 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    coinop wrote: »
    The closest the Irish people have ever gotten to a referendum on the immigration question was the 2004 Citizenship referendum. A landslide 79% of voters agreed to change the constitution so that anchor babies born on Irish soil would no longer be automatically considered Irish. From reading posts on here you would swear the entire country is all for refugees welcome but that doesn't line up with reality. The push back against Direct Provision centers in homogenous Irish villages in the West of Ireland was another tell tale sign that Paddy has observed the destruction and suffering immigration has caused in France, Germany and the UK and we are determined to not make the same mistakes.

    Such a referendum now would be deeply, deeply divisive and would provoke strong anti-immigrant sentiments. The atmosphere would be toxic.

    There were reports of Polish people and others being verbally abused on the streets in Britain in the wake of the Brexit vote and being told to "go home" : and that wasn't even supposed to be an immigration referendum.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    What's too many though?

    2. That's too many. A token one might be fine, in a zoo or something. Put 2 of the bastards together though and they'll start hatching plans and campaigning for more bloodthirsty barbarians to be let in to join them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Such a referendum now would be deeply, deeply divisive and would provoke strong anti-immigrant sentiments. The atmosphere would be toxic.

    There were reports of Polish people and others being verbally abused on the streets in Britain in the wake of the Brexit vote and being told to "go home" : and that wasn't even supposed to be an immigration referendum.

    A referendum on leaving the EU might provoke such a reaction to Poles and other EU citizens who can live and work here freely, though I doubt it.

    However, the Irish people can easily distinguish between the concept of EU freedom of movement in an EU of which we are part, and on the other hand, the foisting of Direct Provision centres in remote parts of the land.

    Your post stinks of the very pusillanimity which has us where we are.

    You're making feeble excuses for the status quo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,167 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    A referendum on leaving the EU might provoke such a reaction to Poles and other EU citizens who can live and work here freely, though I doubt it.

    However, the Irish people can easily distinguish between the concept of EU freedom of movement in an EU of which we are part, and on the other hand, the foisting of Direct Provision centres in remote parts of the land.

    Your post stinks of the very pusillanimity which has us where we are.

    You're making feeble excuses for the status quo.

    Nothing good would come from such a referendum in the current period. There would be no 'mature and intelligent debate' ; instead, it would be tribal and toxic with immigrants / asylum seekers getting the fall out (which would probably seen as a desirable outcome by some of the actors in the campaign).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Nothing good would come from such a referendum in the current period. There would be no 'mature and intelligent debate' ; instead, it would be tribal and toxic with immigrants / asylum seekers getting the fall out (which would probably seen as a desirable outcome by some of the actors in the campaign).

    What do you mean by 'the current period' ?

    When/why will it ever be the 'right period' ?

    It isn't enough to say that 'nothing good would come from such a referendum', just because the campaign or the fall out would be unpleasant, or because some people would actually wish to see that unpleasantness.

    A good result for the long-term future of the nation might come from such a referendum.

    Are you a democrat or not ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    What's too many though?

    All returning Irish = welcome

    All EU immigrants = welcome

    Non-EU immigrants = severely restricted

    Genuine refugees = welcome

    Bogus asylum-seekers = not welcome


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    It's not the belief that the Irish people want more immigration... It's that our political elite, and various government bodies have been hellbent on pushing the immigration line for decades now, regardless of what the population actually wants. It's the weakness of Irish democracy. When most of the parties like to show their virtue by importing low skilled labor, voting a party out doesn't make much of an impact. We also have a very vocal segment of society/media who want more immigrants to relieve us of our white guilt, and justify their needs for self-flagellation over racism and privilege.

    The political parties are very good at doing what they want once they get into power (irrespective of the desires of the Electorate), and Irish people are very good at forgetting or forgiving what they did after a few years (FF remaining as a active party shows that....)

    This raises the question ......Why the feck do you keep voting the same old old people/parties back in?

    You want change, you have to vote for change. Something the islamic countries cannot do, but people living in a democracy can.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    46 Long wrote: »

    These are the same clowns that sent around a memo stating the people should capitalize black but not white.
    “We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, said in a memo to staff Monday. “But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”

    What's the world coming to when "credible" new outlets read like student union blogs.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,673 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Nothing good would come from such a referendum in the current period. There would be no 'mature and intelligent debate' ; instead, it would be tribal and toxic with immigrants / asylum seekers getting the fall out (which would probably seen as a desirable outcome by some of the actors in the campaign).

    Would it be any more toxic that RTE wheeling out people like Ali Selim and Ebun Joseph so they can browbeat the native Irish on how we are all big bad racists.

    Of course the South Dublin lefties will agree with all they say but it pisses off the rest of the country no end when both these people arrived here begging to be let in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    But our diversity is our strength!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭eggy81


    never said it was ok wibbs perhaps read what i actually said,
    and no the comparison is that of a child or a buffoon.

    Your talking absolute cobblers in this thread.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    old_aussie wrote: »
    This raises the question ......Why the feck do you keep voting the same old old people/parties back in?
    Because we're lost for credible alternatives is the long and short of it. The alternatives that exist are all tiny parties with daft polices and that goes for the right and left. The only mainstream "alternative" in play currently are the Greens and we're back to quite the number of daft policies headed by a charisma bypass generally only loved by a pocket of Dublin suburbanites who think they're great because they fill their green and brown bins, while otherwise consuming like piranha. I know a few Green voters, nice people, but nouveau hippies for the most part, at least in their politics.
    TomTomTim wrote: »
    These are the same clowns that sent around a memo stating the people should capitalize black but not white.

    What's the world coming to when "credible" new outlets read like student union blogs.
    I capitalise Black, White and Yellow as it describes groups of people. It's called good manners and I'll not shift in that view.

    And yet again here's the big problem with much of Western society; constantly apologising for what it is and the people that made it and mired in self doubt. Even though by just about every metric the West is and has long been the yardstick by which much of human progress is measured. It's like the pale descendant of a once great family going rogue, declaring their ancestors all fascists and opening up their grand home to squatters. No wonder external groups smell blood in the water.

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭eggy81


    I can guarantee you I am not justifying any violence or murder I made that pretty clear.

    This was your response to on page 1 to initial op.

    "it's awful, but then i completely disagree with showing pictures of Mohammed when it's a clearly a very personal and upsetting thing for any muslim to see. Why purposely try upset people, it's only one image and plenty of ways around it.
    Does it mean it's ok to murder, of course not but it's looking for trouble imo"

    Its awful, you really got into the meat and bones of how heinous a crime it is with that analysis. The rest of the post is excuses for it.


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    old_aussie wrote: »
    This raises the question ......Why the feck do you keep voting the same old old people/parties back in?

    You want change, you have to vote for change. Something the islamic countries cannot do, but people living in a democracy can.

    You missed the point that I raised where all the political parties are interested in the same virtue signalling and importation of migrants. So.. you have your vote,. Wonderful. Where do you place your vote when all parties want more immigration?

    A democracy only gives that choice, when there are choices to be made. When the political parties all dance to a similar tune, democracy isn't partly effective of representing the peoples wishes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    eggy81 wrote: »
    but then i completely disagree with showing pictures of Mohammed when it's a clearly a very personal and upsetting thing for any muslim to see.
    Christians in Ireland and worldwide takes offence every time a "gay Jesus" is shown by the progressives.
    But they have learned to live with it because this is a free society.
    Brazil's Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that TV streaming service Netflix must remove a film depicting Jesus as gay.
    So will radical Muslims have to do about depictions of Mohammed.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,580 ✭✭✭jmreire


    old_aussie wrote: »
    This raises the question ......Why the feck do you keep voting the same old old people/parties back in?

    You want change, you have to vote for change. Something the islamic countries cannot do, but people living in a democracy can.

    Were you following the last election, by any chance? If the results of that was not a strong desire for change, I don't know what is. For sure people want political change in the Country, and next election will prove it. Islamic Countries can and do change their politicians in elections. The problem is that Islam in itself IS their politics. Non-Islamic party's trying to get elected in Islamic Countries get short shrift. In Pakistan, the only Catholic Minister in the Government, a Mr.Bhatti, who was an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which makes it a crime to utter any derogatory remarks or insult in any way the prophet Muhammad, the Koran or Islam. His bodyguard killed him, and most of the Pakistani Lawyers offered their services free of charge to defend the killer.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    I didn't even post the prophet. Do I win?


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    Geuze wrote: »
    All returning Irish = welcome

    All EU immigrants = welcome

    Non-EU immigrants = severely restricted

    Genuine refugees = welcome

    Bogus asylum-seekers = not welcome

    how about genuine refugees & immigrants who follow islam get redirected to islamic countries.

    Its pretty simple.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    how about genuine refugees & immigrants who follow islam get redirected to islamic countries.

    Its pretty simple.

    Absolutely. Islam is incompatible with european values


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    old_aussie wrote: »
    This raises the question ......Why the feck do you keep voting the same old old people/parties back in?

    You want change, you have to vote for change. Something the islamic countries cannot do, but people living in a democracy can.

    There is no alternative, all main parties are in favour of immigration. Only other parties are Gemma O Doherty nutters.


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