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Terror incident in Paris

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  • #52
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,507 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    GT89 wrote: »
    Mainstream media not reporting on this much there's a surprise

    Main news on BBC world news
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world

    Main news on sky world news
    https://news.sky.com/world

    4th headline on RTE
    https://www.rte.ie/news/world/

    Not a mention in the Meath Chronicle,so you could have a point
    https://www.meathchronicle.ie/


  • #53
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    bobbyy gee wrote: »
    I wonder were the smart to print the same cartoons again

    They reprinted the cartoons recently to coincide with the trial of the 20 or so muslims who helped the attackers. Even in Belfast at the nadir of the troubles you wouldnt find even one lad that thought killing cartoonists for an English newspaper would be a laudable and moral act.


  • #54
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Someday the Europeans will regret the day they fell for the "You don't need a gun. We're the Govt. We'll protect you." lie.

    Someday Americans will regret all the mass school shootings due to their belief that citizens needed easy access to guns to protect themselves from their government


  • #55
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,460 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    GT89 wrote: »
    Mainstream media not reporting on this much there's a surprise

    Yeah your Twitter feed is so underground maannnn


  • #56
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Who'd have thoughts that the suspects would have been 18 year old immigrants from Pakistan?

    Everyday normal people paying the price for left wing guilt complexes.


  • #57
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Who'd have thoughts that the suspects would have been 18 year old immigrants from Pakistan?

    Everyday normal people paying the price for left wing guilt complexes.

    judging by the photos i would say he is in his mid 20s


  • #58
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    RandomName2 wrote: »
    Well the media tends to be more left wing than right, I think that's a given.

    But there's no cover up of this story at all. It's not a massive story (nobody is dead.. yet at any rate), but it's well reported. The fact that it is Islamic terrorism is not in dispute either.



    Ya what?



    Some people just want to watch the world burn, and making excuses for them is doing the devil's work. The Charlie Hebdo massacre was only one of dozens ISIL inspired attacks in France.

    I suppose the Bataclan theater should not have shown public support for Israel. The Hypercacher kosher supermarket should not have been allowed to have provocative Jewish products. The Toulouse and Montauban shootings was in retaliation for the provocative ban on wearing religious clothing, and also because of the presence of Jews in France. The Nice attack was generally due to the provocative French bombing of ISIL targets. The perpetrator of the Paris bomb plot (who eventually went on to behead a priest in a church in Normandy) was motivated by.. the provocative presence of French people.

    Say that to families who had loved ones slaughtered like pigs because of those pictures.


  • #59
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    The corporate media? The media owned by billionaires? The media whose journalists prostitute themselves to corporate power? The corporate, billionaire owned, hack media, is 'left wing'?

    Predominantly, yes. Or you could describe it as 'liberal' if you like. This doesn't necessarily have a bearing on the authenticity of the journalism, you understand, but it's generally an appropriate description of the political leaning.

    What part is hard to understand? Is it the billionaire aspect? The large corporation bit? The same can be said of universities, particularly in America. Is your view similarly that Hardvard, Yale, Stanford, Rutgers are all right wing establishments, because of the plutocrats that run them?

    Finally I have an explanation for all the far-right propaganda on Channel 4. It's because they are corporate media owned by billionaires. Thanks Junkyard Tom for your as ever, insightful analysis.

    I don't think there's been any paradigm shift to the left. Journalism for many, many years has been more left than right wing.

    I don't know why the media was so dead set against Corbyn. But the labour elite were antagonistic to Corbyn, so I'd say that would have a bearing on it. The corporate billionare connection after all. The same thing may well have been true in relation to Sanders - he did not have the backing of the elite within the Democratic party.

    Just because someone has left-wing affiliation doesn't necessarily mean that they espouse those values.

    And for what it's worth, Mary Lou is a nationalist, not a socialist.


  • #60
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Say that to families who had loved ones slaughtered like pigs because of those pictures.
    they were not slaughtered because of those pictures. Militant Islam has been slaughtering people since foundation, it brookes no competition. It can not be negotiatied with from a position of weakness/submission. The more one gives in to Islam, the more emboldened it gets, the more carnage it causes.


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  • #61
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Say that to families who had loved ones slaughtered like pigs because of those pictures.

    Nobody was slaughtered because of those pictures. The pictures are not to blame.


  • #62
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    TheBlackPill wrote: »
    judging by the photos i would say he is in his mid 20s

    The main suspect, identified as an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin, was arrested near the scene. Police said six others were in custody and being questioned.


  • #63
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Get on your f*cking bike. The only mistake they made was not printing more of them.

    So why is no one else printing them, you are wrong, just as they were for doing it. Why pour petrol on a burning fire


  • #64
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    So why is no one else printing them, you are wrong, just as they were for doing it. Why pour petrol on a burning fire
    Nobody else is printing them due to the fear of being attacked and murdered, and also there is big money to be made from the muslim community and countries, and they do not want to lose out on this..Carrot and stick


  • #65
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    So why is no one else printing them, you are wrong, just as they were for doing it. Why pour petrol on a burning fire

    People are not printing them out of fear brought on by the craven crawling attitudes of people like yourself. The "burning fire" here is the bronze age fanaticism of a fascistic death cult which has no place in the modern world and definitely no place in Europe. These people need our spit in their eyes not out appeasement.


  • #66
    Lolle06
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭Lolle06


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Someday the Europeans will regret the day they fell for the "You don't need a gun. We're the Govt. We'll protect you." lie.

    What kind of guns are you talking about? I know a lot of people who legally own firearms (guns/ pistols) in European countries.
    They are laws they have to adhere to, yes, but people do have (often multiple) firearms in their homes.


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  • #67
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    Here is what is so disturbing: in the last decade or so all across western media a picture of an enemy to humanity has been painted with a very strong brush, and that enemy is your average socially conservative or even moderate person, accused of supporting or being responsible for death, misery, and inequality. Even if you disagree with conservative social stances, the villifaction has been absolutely absurd.

    While these organisations who actually murder people, carry out suicide bombings, and to this day are holding thousands of women as slaves, barely get a brief, frightened mention in the coverege, careful not to cause offense and """"play into the hands of right wingers"""".

    Just watch. There will be and a million and one editorials about how Trump's supreme court pick will destroy the rights and liberties of America, and probably even more for whatever Rowling tweets next - but next to none about standing up to this actual murderous terror.

    If this doesn't show you how messed up the world is, I don't know what will.


  • #68
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    People are not printing them out of fear brought on by the craven crawling attitudes of people like yourself. The "burning fire" here is the bronze age fanaticism of a fascistic death cult which has no place in the modern world and definitely no place in Europe. These people need our spit in their eyes not out appeasement.

    Idiotic post, no conflict would ever be resolved with spitting in the oppositions
    Eye. Negotiations are the only way, look at the north in our country.


  • #69
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    Idiotic post, no conflict would ever be resolved with spitting in the oppositions
    Eye. Negotiations are the only way, look at the north in our country.

    The naivety!

    You think "negotiations" are possible with the kind of people who murdered 12 people over a cartoon? Or the 130 at the Bataclan? Or the 23 at the Manchester Arena. This is not a political movement. These are savages who want everyone to bend the knee to their barbaric and retarded worldview. F*ck them. ISIS were pushed to near extinction with bullets and explosives, not roundtable discussions.


  • #70
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Someday the Europeans will regret the day they fell for the "You don't need a gun. We're the Govt. We'll protect you." lie.

    OrdinaryMinorChinchilla-size_restricted.gif


  • #71
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    So why is no one else printing them, you are wrong, just as they were for doing it. Why pour petrol on a burning fire

    They should be allowed to. But a murderous backward cult will kill anyone who does.

    I’m Catholic, I watched Dogma and laughed at 95% of it - thought the Buddy Christ was hilarious.

    I didn’t go into Kevin Smith’s office and shoot 12 of his film crew.

    The pictures are not to blame. The idiots from that filthy band of mediaeval morons are.


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  • #72
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Once strolled into an Islamic 'Art Gallery' when travelling in a major int'l city, to pass an hour or two.

    After 10mins walking inside, disappointed and deflated, realised would have experienced more asthetic visual and sensory pleasure shopping at at DIY depot for monotone navy patterned tiles.

    On the way out the curator chap at the exit asked 'Did you enjoy the art?'.
    Had to look at him, look at the gallery signage above the door ('art galllery') and then back at the wall hangings (to make sure there wasn't a trip in the matrix).
    The least offensive thing could do was to say nothing, shrug the shoulders, and exit with some gusto.

    Perhaps they can start with simple cartoons, then work up towards Antoni Gaudí or Picasso after a millenia or so.


  • #73
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    Someday Americans will regret all the mass school shootings due to their belief that citizens needed easy access to guns to protect themselves from their government

    maybe if the Western Governments weren't hell bent on importing violent people into our Countries then we need easy access to guns.


  • #74
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    maybe if the Western Governments weren't hell bent on importing violent people into our Countries then we need easy access to guns.

    When was the last time you felt the need to be armed in Ireland due to "imported violent people"?


  • #75
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    When was the last time you felt the need to be armed in Ireland due to "imported violent people"?

    Ask anyone in Ballriggan that question.


  • #76
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    Back when the Hebdo massacre happened, publications around the world could have helped out by printing the pictures. If you had all major Western media publishing them, it would have made it more difficult to see this as just a Charlie Hebdo thing and moved the target off them somewhat. I understand their fears for their journalists but I think capitulating like that sent the wrong message. That and those cnuts could hardly go after everyone.

    Why insult people just to stick it to a minority or murderers?
    Treat it like the 'N' word. Track down the killers.


  • #77
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    Bowie wrote: »
    Why insult people just to stick it to a minority or murderers?
    Treat it like the 'N' word. Track down the killers.

    The majority tacitly support the islamists. Check out Pew polling and you find majorities support their medieval BS


  • #78
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Lylah Late Minibus wrote: »
    Once strolled into an Islamic 'Art Gallery' when travelling in a major int'l city, to pass an hour or two.

    After 10mins walking inside, disappointed and deflated, realised would have experienced more asthetic visual and sensory pleasure shopping at at DIY depot for monotone navy patterned tiles.

    On the way out the curator chap at the exit asked 'Did you enjoy the art?'.
    Had to look at him, look at the gallery signage above the door ('art galllery') and then back at the wall hangings (to make sure there wasn't a trip in the matrix).
    The least offensive thing could do was to say nothing, shrug the shoulders, and exit with some gusto.

    Perhaps they can start with simple cartoons, then work up towards Antoni Gaudí or Picasso after a millenia or so.

    I'm calling bull**** on this, there is some amazing Islamic art out there, even any basic carpet will have a detailed design on it. It's just a different style, mostly geometric or calligraphy


  • #79
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I'm calling bull**** on this, there is some amazing Islamic art out there, even any basic carpet will have a detailed design on it. It's just a different style, mostly geometric or calligraphy

    You'll find a lot of the good art and science comes from the Persia/Shia side of islam, who make up only 10% of the islamic world. The sunni side of islam is a cultural desert.


  • #80
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    TheBlackPill wrote: »
    The majority tacitly support the islamists. Check out Pew polling and you find majorities support their medieval BS

    Every Muslim supports Sharia being implemented in the West. So virtually they all support the terrorists to some degree.


  • #81
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I'm calling bull**** on this, there is some amazing Islamic art out there, even any basic carpet will have a detailed design on it. It's just a different style, *mostly geometric or calligraphy*

    I'm calling your view as bull**** and indeed unfounded, unreasonable.

    The gallery 'is/was' as you describe, ALL geometric-calligraphy.

    This is not high (or even reasonable) art, this is pattern making and squiggles at best, I'm very sorry to say as the experience was 15mins I can't get back.


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  • #82
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    TheBlackPill wrote: »
    You'll find a lot of the good art and science comes from the Persia/Shia side of islam, who make up only 10% of the islamic world. The sunni side of islam is a cultural desert.
    Was surprised the other day watching a travel show on one of the Turk based Islamic states in the near East, they actually had painted portraits (of poets) on buildings, and held women in very high regard (not as 2nd class citizens) with portraits also, since the turn of the century inc voting rights. This is a rareity. S'Arabia only let them drive cars in the last few years.

    Can't remember the city, one of those places that's not Europe, but still feature in the Eurovision sing-off.


  • #83
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Every Muslim supports Sharia being implemented in the West. So virtually they all support the terrorists to some degree.


    Nonsense. Their beliefs range from liberal secular to full-on head-chopper. It varies massively by country.


  • #84
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Lylah Late Minibus wrote: »

    Can't remember the city, one of those places that's not Europe, but still feature in the Eurovision sing-off.


    Azerbaijan, most likely.


  • #85
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I'm calling bull**** on this, there is some amazing Islamic art out there, even any basic carpet will have a detailed design on it. It's just a different style, mostly geometric or calligraphy

    Basically any artist who strayed from this form of art would have their work destroyed and maybe their life taken.
    The amazing carpet designs tend to come from Persia, the industry predating islam and even today incorporating many pre-islamic motifs


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Every Muslim supports Sharia being implemented in the West. So virtually they all support the terrorists to some degree.

    I've read some speculative garbage on boards, but this takes the expired cake. I know three people of the muslim faith, all of whom detest ISIS and other terrorist splinter groups. An antagonistic minority is in no way representative of the majority. You "virtually" made up these assertions on the spot.


  • #87
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    Azerbaijan, most likely.
    Could be, if so, they also with some of the best entrants to the eurosingsong show in recent years. There may be glimmers of hope for quality music, high art and culture, if this trend can expand and continue in that region. Iceland and Bulgaria however, have set a high benchmark in the last 2yrs.


  • #88
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    Nonsense. Their beliefs range from liberal secular to full-on head-chopper. It varies massively by country.

    Bull****. They all want Sharia implemented in the West. So Yes that is support for the extremists. It might not be the full hog [Kill the infidels] but it is still support because they want the same thing. The West to be under the Iron Curtain of Sharia.


  • #89
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I've read some speculative garbage on boards, but this takes the expired cake. I know three people of the muslim faith, all of whom detest ISIS and other terrorist splinter groups. An antagonistic minority is in no way representative of the majority. You "virtually" made up these assertions on the spot.

    Every Muslim living in the West has always answered Yes when they're asked if they want Sharia implemented in the West.


  • #90
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Lylah Late Minibus wrote: »
    I'm calling your view as bull**** and indeed unfounded, unreasonable.

    The gallery 'is/was' as you describe, ALL geometric-calligraphy.

    This is not high (or even reasonable) art, this is pattern making and squiggles at best, I'm very sorry to say as the experience was 15mins I can't get back.

    Its what happens when creativity is held hostage by zealots

    Expect to see a lot more like it in the west.


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  • #91
    Billy Mays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I've read some speculative garbage on boards, but this takes the expired cake. I know three people of the muslim faith, all of whom detest ISIS and other terrorist splinter groups. An antagonistic minority is in no way representative of the majority. You "virtually" made up these assertions on the spot.
    Sensei has a habit of making up stuff on here tbf to him


  • #92
    Godeatsboogers
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭Godeatsboogers


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Every Muslim living in the West has always answered Yes when they're asked if they want Sharia implemented in the West.

    Were you there every time a Muslim was asked? Otherwise that's a seriously ostentatious remark. Replies like this are actually hilarious, just a wild generalization casually implied as fact when the information required to find it as fact is unbelievably out of the scope of anyone's abilities, unless your omniscient? Are you omniscient? Why do you only use your power for things like finding out what every muslim has said when asked a question about sharia law?


  • #93
    Mr. Karate
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Mr. Karate


    Godeatsboogers wrote: »
    Were you there every time a Muslim was asked? Otherwise that's a seriously ostentatious remark. Replies like this are actually hilarious, just a wild generalization casually implied as fact when the information required to find it as fact is unbelievably out of the scope of anyone's abilities, unless your omniscient? Are you omniscient? Why do you only use your power for things like finding out what every muslim has said when asked a question about sharia law?

    They were interviewed live on the air. Just because you're in willful denial doesn't mean the rest of us are.

    The Left's mindset when it comes to Islam: "They didn't mean that."
    Muslims's response: "Yes we did."


  • #94
    Godeatsboogers
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭Godeatsboogers


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    They were interviewed live on the air. Just because you're in willful denial doesn't mean the rest of us are.

    The Left's mindset when it comes to Islam: "They didn't mean that."
    Muslims's response: "Yes we did."

    They were interviewed live on air? All of them, 1.8 billion people? When did this extra ordinary event occur. Oh youre just talking about a few? So what you did is garner an opinion from a small section of a selected group of people and then applied that opinion to the entire population without their input, are you an auditor?


  • #95
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    From the far right publication of the Guardian:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

    -50% of all UK muslims think homosexuality should be illegal.
    -23% want Sharia law in UK.


  • #96
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    From the far right publication of the Guardian:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

    -50% of all UK muslims think homosexuality should be illegal.
    -23% want Sharia law in UK.


    Thankfully the closest they'll get to Sharia are arbitration courts.


    On homosexuality, though, that's not too surprising. It was a common belief here and in Europe until 30-odd years ago but we grew up and copped on. Other countries such as Russia have similar views with 20% thinking that they should be eliminated, whatever that means. The Islamic world is way behind though.



    One approach is to make it clear that we in the west are all about personal freedoms and reject religiously inspired prohibitions. I liked the Dutch idea from 10 or 15 years ago where they had ads in muslim majority countries showing how they were full of gays, drink, drugs and sex. The message was basically, "if you can't handle it, please fcuk off.". Unfortunately, you can't exactly stop people with those kinds of ideas from comint into a country and you can't stop people coming in based on what their children might be like.



    Another is not to give nutters like Ali Selim a platform. Thankfully, Trinity got rid of him but this was a guy mainstreaming shíte like genital mutilation on kids and segregation by sex. He shouldn't have been given that position in the first place.



    As regards social media, we're sort of fecked, though. You can't exactly prevent Abdul from Birmingham from watching Chaudri's Finsbury Park Mosque's Death to America Fridays' greatest hits. I don't know how to sort that without making social media liable for its radicalisation of people but that a massive can of worms in itself.


    I don't have a solution to this problem - only that it should be acknowledged as a problem. I can also point out that simplistic solutions like muslim bans aren't the answer. If gay rights are a concern and if banning people from homophobic cultures are a proposed solution, we'd have to ban a lot of nationalities and they include white Christian ones.



    A small thing that helps though is having a culture where the holy Joes, from whatever religion, are sidelined.


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  • #97
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,762 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    Azerbaijan, most likely.

    Or Israel ...


  • #98
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lylah Late Minibus wrote: »
    Was surprised the other day watching a travel show on one of the Turk based Islamic states in the near East, they actually had painted portraits (of poets) on buildings, and held women in very high regard (not as 2nd class citizens) with portraits also, since the turn of the century inc voting rights. This is a rareity. S'Arabia only let them drive cars in the last few years.

    Can't remember the city, one of those places that's not Europe, but still feature in the Eurovision sing-off.

    Think I saw that show... The host was in one of them 'Stan' places iirc, and she was praising the fact that the particular Country she was in was one of the first Islamic Countries to give women the vote, and the first to have a "Women only University" ; with undertones of : "Wow - look how progressive this Country is." :pac:

    Pretty sure also that there were a few places she wasn't 'allowed' into as a woman... Also a few places where filming in itself wasn't allowed, but that's okay in my book.

    That show I'm on about is on Travelxp, great channel with very knowledgeable, and some of the female (luckily most of the hosts are female) hosts are as hot as July :)


  • #99
    excludedbin
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭excludedbin


    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    They were interviewed live on the air.
    Then link to it! Otherwise you're just making ****e up. Again.
    John Doe1 wrote: »
    From the far right publication of the Guardian:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

    -50% of all UK muslims think homosexuality should be illegal.
    -23% want Sharia law in UK.
    Whoah, hold on a second! Only 23%? But Mr. Karate said "all".
    Mr. Karate wrote: »
    Bull****. They all want Sharia implemented in the West.

    23% is not "all". It's not even "a quarter".


  • #100
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Lylah Late Minibus wrote: »
    Once strolled into an Islamic 'Art Gallery' when travelling in a major int'l city, to pass an hour or two.

    After 10mins walking inside, disappointed and deflated, realised would have experienced more asthetic visual and sensory pleasure shopping at at DIY depot for monotone navy patterned tiles.

    On the way out the curator chap at the exit asked 'Did you enjoy the art?'.
    Had to look at him, look at the gallery signage above the door ('art galllery') and then back at the wall hangings (to make sure there wasn't a trip in the matrix).
    The least offensive thing could do was to say nothing, shrug the shoulders, and exit with some gusto.

    Perhaps they can start with simple cartoons, then work up towards Antoni Gaudí or Picasso after a millenia or so.

    lololololol. This is the dumbest thing I've read on here in a while.


  • #101
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    As I understand it - Pakistani undocumented unaccompanied child Ali Hassan tried to kill two people he believed were journalists for Charlie Hebdo.

    Ali Hassan 18yo from Pakistan
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