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Campaign to keep ibrahim halawa...

  • 05-04-2017 6:51pm
    #1
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭


    .....in jail.

    What to do? 69 votes

    Keep in in
    0% 0 votes
    Let him out
    78% 54 votes
    Commodore Amiga
    17% 12 votes
    Atari Jaguar
    4% 3 votes


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  • #2
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Agreed


  • #3
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    How about just give him his trial?


  • #4
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Life for Ibrahim Halawa must be a living hell.
    Is this thread supposed to be amusing?


  • #5
    b_mac2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭b_mac2


    2011 wrote: »
    Life for Ibrahim Halawa must be a living hell.
    Is this thread supposed to be amusing?

    Do you pity all terrorists or?


  • #6
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #7
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    What's an Ibrahim Halal and why the clickbait title


  • #8
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    .....in jail.
    Was he Born Irish?


  • #9
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Was he Born Irish?

    It's irrelevant, if you do the crime you should do the time regardless of nationality.


  • #10
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,146 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I'm here!


  • #11
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Do People in Egypt give a give Damm about People of Ireland?


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  • #12
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Was he Born Irish?

    Yes he's an Irish citizen


  • #13
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Do People in Egypt give a give Damm about People of Ireland?

    Ahh. Whataboutery.

    They might give a fcuk if an egyptian was locked up here.


  • #14
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    The lesson of this story is not to protest in a country where there is very little respect for human life.


  • #15
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    You know, there are a lot of problems in Ireland that could detonate in a very nasty way in the next while:

    Artificlally low interest rates and cheap credit.

    Over leveraged Irish banks, highly vulnerable to French and German volatility.

    A bunch of incompetent gobshìtes in government.

    A generation of mental health issues from desperately unhappy people which will manifest themselves more in the next ten years.

    A housing crisis with 100,000 homes in mortgage arrears.

    Net emigration from Irish people as of April 2016, with the birth rate of native Irish below replacement levels.

    A massively cumbersome public sector whose pension contributions are going to be a stupidly high expense in the next while.

    Sometimes I wonder though. Do we actually deserve to not be thrown into this position? Do we actually deserve what's coming?

    And the answer is, well, if you let a lad like Ibrahim Halawa back into your country after what he has done...

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  • #16
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,001 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    And the answer is, well, if you let a lad like Ibrahim Halawa back into your country after what he has done...

    What exactly has he done?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #17
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Grayson wrote: »
    Ahh. Whataboutery.

    They might give a fcuk if an egyptian was locked up here.
    I would say We have a few Egyptians in Prisons here in Ireland.


  • #18
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    How any Irish person could be against giving anyone a timely and fair trial is beyond me


  • #19
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    After Hours is becoming more like Stormfront by the day. There are some awful, awful people posting here.


  • #20
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    30 PEOPLE Have voted so Far and 24 of the 30 said keep him in prison.


  • #21
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    RayM wrote: »
    After Hours is becoming more like Stormfront by the day. There are some awful, awful people posting here.

    You've not been on Stormfront much then, have you.....

    The stuff discussed here, is nothing compared to the bile spewed forth under that bridge.


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  • #22
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    I honestly don't give a sh*t. Did he live here for a while and was given an Irish passport? Am I supposed to care because of that? How many people are locked up in sh*tholes all over the world? I've enough to be getting on with.


  • #23
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    It's irrelevant, if you do the crime you should do the time regardless of nationality.

    That's all well and good but he doesn't even know what the time is,they won't give him a trial.


  • #24
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Did he live here for a while and was given an Irish passport?

    He was born here, grew up here. When he went to Egypt, he had to pay for a visa to enter the country. He's Irish.


  • #25
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I honestly don't give a sh*t. Did he live here for a while and was given an Irish passport? Am I supposed to care because of that? How many people are locked up in sh*tholes all over the world? I've enough to be getting on with.
    How Many Irish are in Jail Worldwide? What comes to mind when you think of Hell Is The Movie Midnight Express.


  • #26
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I honestly don't give a sh*t. Did he live here for a while and was given an Irish passport? Am I supposed to care because of that? How many people are locked up in sh*tholes all over the world? I've enough to be getting on with.

    The government is supposed to care and I'm ok with that.

    there's a fcuk load of people on boards who make a huge issue out of the government caring. There have been huge threads about it and it pretty much all revolves around whether he should be considered Irish. Apparently it's very exclusive and they think they should have a say on who's Irish and who isn't.


  • #27
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Halawa's imprisonment is the Egyptian Government sending out a warning.

    It's essentially saying, if you are a do gooder (or protester) and you come over to Egypt and start interfering in our affairs or protesting or backing "the wrong side", this is what is going to happen to you.

    Is it fair? No. But that is what they are doing.


  • #28
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Do People in Egypt give a give Damm about People of Ireland?

    If they were kids that fell in playgrounds then the Egyptians concern for our Irish children is Paramount to them.


  • #29
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Grayson wrote: »

    there's a fcuk load of people on boards who make a huge issue out of the government caring. There have been huge threads about it and it pretty much all revolves around whether he should be considered Irish. Apparently it's very exclusive and they think they should have a say on who's Irish and who isn't.

    The lad is Irish. He's obviously of Egyptian extraction but he's Irish. Lived here his whole life, has an Irish passport and, as someone else pointed out, needed a visa to go to Egypt. However, that doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you want abroad as we all know all too well. Having said that, the chap and everyone else who was charged deserve a trial and not some mass trial either. It's ridiculous. How long's it been? Again though, familiarise yourself with foreign countries before going to rock the boat.


  • #30
    neonsofa
    Registered Users Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    Omackeral wrote: »
    The lad is Irish. He's obviously of Egyptian extraction but he's Irish. Lived here his whole life, has an Irish passport and, as someone else pointed out, needed a visa to go to Egypt. However, that doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you want abroad as we all know all too well. Having said that, the chap and everyone else who was charged deserve a trial and not some mass trial either. It's ridiculous. How long's it been? Again though, familiarise yourself with foreign countries before going to rock the boat.

    I have to admit, I haven't read the whole story, only heard the carry on about his trial being postponed. Regardless of what happened he deserves a trial. Could someone give a brief outline of what exactly happened? I know I can Google it but it'd be handier to just get a brief summary from someone who knows the whole story and can simplify it :o thanks.


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  • #31
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


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