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A protest outside the French Embassey in Dublin in 2011 calling on the French Government to change the ban on women wearing the Islamic Burqa Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Anti-Muslim 'Irish voice' page to be reported to Gardaí, Facebook

The Immigrant Council of Ireland says the tone of the Facebook page is “deeply worrying”.

THE IMMIGRANT COUNCIL of Ireland has said it will be reporting a Facebook page containing anti-Muslim messages to both the social media company and gardaí.

The ‘Irish voice’ (sic) page has been in existence since November last year, amassing 991 ‘likes’ in the last two months.

Several anti-Muslim messages have been posted in just the last 24 hours, including an image of women wearing burqas with the heading “CHECK OUT THE FUTURE IRISH SCHOOL UNIFORM”.

In a long post placed earlier today, an administrator of the page took issue with “stupid people” who had complained that only comments in English or Irish were being allowed.

The rambling message ended with this sentence:

The future of this country is in your hands and unless you act then your children may as well start speaking Indian or Chinese basically anything but English and Irish.

A spokesperson for the Immigrant Council told TheJournal.ie that the underlying tone of the page was “deeply worrying” and said the group would be pursuing the matter with authorites.

“This comes on the back of figures for 2013 which show an 85 per cent increase in reported racist incidents over the year.

“Of that number, 12 per cent of all incidents were internet-related.”

The spokesperson said the Immigrant Council had been successful in the past in having offending social media accounts closed down.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 7:20 AM

    Councillors and ex TDs walk from corruption charges,and not one column reporting this..The silence is deafening,, ,,,,,,

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    Jul 25th 2013, 8:10 AM

    True Thomas.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 9:25 AM

    Incroyable! The Journal runs an opinion piece that’s not about sexism. Give yourselves a pat on the back, that must have been difficult.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 11:28 AM

    Typical male attitude.!

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    Jul 25th 2013, 11:31 AM

    I demand a quota system to redress the gender imbalance of this thread.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 7:55 AM

    It’s nuts to think that you can entrust decisions about people’s liberty to 12 unqualified people, and at the same time not trust those 12 unqualified people to look at the evidence presented in court rather than media hysteria.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 8:08 AM

    Unqualified? Do elaborate.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 7:19 PM

    I disagree, the jury system is not without its faults but it is the fairest system there is. The principle of interpretation of our laws is based in that of the reasonable man and that when tried you are judged by your peers. If you have qualified people on a jury (by qualified people trained to do the task, familiar with laws, procedures etc basically quasi judges) you remove this element of the reasonable or normal person. The example I would give would be Padraig Nally, he did everything needed that a professional jury would have been quite right to convict him of at least manslaughter. However a jury of his peers (seeing things they their own eyes and drawing from their own experiences) acquitted him albeit on a retrial.

    Now a professional jury drawing a wage and living in middle Ireland may not be able to draw on such experience or perspective and arrive at the same conclusion. My experiences come from the prosecution end of things and seeing cases fall because of a jury’s verdict is aggravating and frustrating but it has to be respected, it is what protects all of us from all of us.

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    Jul 26th 2013, 1:19 AM

    I’m in some kind of battle with the UK Press Complaints Commission, re Daily Mail comment policy on a recent high profile US case.

    http://jodi-arias.wikispaces.com/Daily+Mail+complaint

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    Jul 25th 2013, 8:58 AM

    Fergal,
    Proposed legislation for “Family Law” and “whistleblower protection” will create new offences where information disclosed relating to decisions made in unaccountable courts.
    Judicial accountability is key for those who would decide on what is in the public interest.

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    Jul 25th 2013, 8:37 AM

    Bankers and the elite and politicians have one law the rest have another. 2 tier system.

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