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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.
#FRANCE Twelve people were killed in a massacre at the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo. Vigils have been taking place across the world for the victims.
#YEMEN A car bomb exploded outside a police academy in the capital
#AIRASIA The tail of the crashed AirAsia plane has been found.
#NORTH KOREA Made a ‘schoolboy error’ when they attacked Sony, the FBI said
#USA An explosion outside black rights organisation NAACP’s headquarters was deliberate
#BOSTON A time capsule dating back to 1795 was opened… here’s what was inside
“You’ve got some killer eyes.” Want a compliment from Joe Biden? Here’s how to get one… instantly. (Kiss not included) [Washington Post]
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The cowardice of these Islamic thugs is truly pathetic. Their chosen targets are such as unarmed, defenceless children in a school in Pakistan, unsuspecting coffee-drinkers in a cafe in Sydney and, just today, unarmed, unsuspecting journalists in an office in Paris. These Muslim terrorists would run a mile from a set-piece battle against a prepared opponent, as they regularly do when faced with such opponents in the deserts of the Middle East in years gone by.
They are complete cowards. They’ll kill unarmed civilians in surprise attacks but then desert their front-lines en masse when faced with an organised Western army.
As long as we stand together Europe wide and defend our right to speak freely then no amount hatred and cowardly attacks will ever bring our multicultural society down.
For anyone that support our freedom of speech change your profile picture to: Je Suis Charlie!
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/image/754txgtan-3abc/1000/562/5387617.jpg
Je Suis Charlie!!
I know Avina. I understand that the author has to tow the line but if the comments section isn’t reopened and the comments section keeps disappearing then I propose that people completely avoid Jounal.ie en masse.
The cult of Scientology has religious status in the USA.Luckily Ireland doesn’t entertain it as a tax free religion but if it somehow were to get religious status here should we accept the clearly batshit crazy teachings of it and don’t dare challenge or offend it? Especially under threats of legal and possibly other actions?
I’ve said this for a long time on the journal “STOP PANDERING TO RELIGION”
Unfortunately plenty of people are ignorant to the central theme of Islam (Domination)
and pander thinking let’s not encroach on religious beliefs sorry but what about when religious beliefs encroach human rights?
In the age of digital communication and information pleading ignorance is not an acceptable defence.The same people with warped ideologies would use our tolerance and acceptance and fair mindedness as a shield against us in one hand whilst using the other hand to supplant our laws with Islamic Sharia law.
Before I get attacked by apologists ask do you agree with the penalty for apostasy? (Death).
Do you agree women should be subjugated and denied human rights in Islamic countries?
Do nonbelievers get fair treatment in Saudi Arabia? (No automatically called terrorists)
As a country and a society we need to have a talk about Islam because if we don’t well things could deteriorate very quickly.Until we learn to view our follow Humans as Human beings we’ll be open to attack from people who surrender reason for madness!
Comments closed quickly on the story about the Trinity “scholar” who is a great advocate of freedom of expression….but he’ll use our archaic blasphemy law to suppress that freedom.
Looks like his threat worked, sad day.
Hi Dermot, I am about to finish my shift so I’ve closed the comments temporarily until a colleague can keep an eye on them.
Thanks
Aoife
And what about the first part of the thread that was deleted?
Bottled it more like
Please see my answer to Dermot above re comments policy
Just trying to think how my comments were offensive for you to delete?
People lay off Aoife, she is just doing her job.
Aoife today there was an attack on a media publication in Paris by an armed group in an effort to silence our media. If the comments section is genuinely closed for the reason you specified then fair enough. If not thank you for the articles I have read for free and commented on over the past year but on principle you have lost a reader.
I suspect others will follow.
If your look looking for freedom of expression folks..@ the journal.ie you won’t find it.
Aoife, entire sections of the thread were deleted, not just individual comments that contravened the Journal comments policy. In addition I just had a comment deleted above which just linked to a blog that was originally published four years ago – already in the public domain, factual and without offensive language etc.. Why was this deleted?
I doubt you’ll get an answer to those questions Avina. And for some reason I doubt the comments section on the Dr. Selim article will be coming back online. What a farce.
Agreed Scipio, all I did above was link to this:
https://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/ali-selim%E2%80%99s-mask-begins-to-slip-by-our-irish-islamist-expert/
I can’t see how that could possibly contravene the comments policy. Any ideas?
@journal
I’d say the delete button is in bits
To those who care.
The current article at the top of journal is currently being censored. The article peaked at about 120 comments and now stands at 105 on last count.
You can never trust freedom if it’s not in your hands.
Censoring all day – no balls!
Eugene – I have explained below that I have turned comments off temporarily. We have a comments policy also and comments that don’t abide by them are deleted. Just like at any other site with a comments policy.
So why are you deleting links to the cartoons that caused this massacre? How do they breach the guidelines? It’s a disgrace after today’s events.
Aoife
You are mistaken. I have seen comments on many articles in The Journal.ie that were not hateful, were factual but presented views based on facts which went against the liberal media bias, and these sorts of comments sometimes I find them missing when going back to an article. The main articles which The Journal.ie finds sensitive in this regard are multicult type articles or articles to do with the holocaust, mass immigration or Islam. For every comment that is sensible and based in fact with no hate toward others but a frank and robust discussion of the issue, then you store up a resentment of the people against the liberal bias you wish to push. If you think I am wrong, then look at Europe and see how their media in concert with multicult NGO’s, secularists and far-leftists have rendered their country’s hostile territories to the natives, and see the rising backlash of resentment. Ireland will follow, we are simply a few years behind, you have been given fair warning of the trends that are to come resulting from a stifling media that does not serve the people.
*for every comment deleted…
Do you think your name “Aryan Light” as Gaeilge and your picture resembling the swastika are offensive? Are you mates with Scipio?
Diarmuid
You have referred to my name over and over, I have answered your questions, while you do not understand or know what the name means, you’re trolling is boring.
Je suis Charlie , R I P.
It is absolutely essential that our blasphemy law – which should never have been introduced – is immediately repealed. We have fianna fail to thank for it, and the inevitable “unintended consequences ” are bound to accrue from it. Time for our legislators to do some work for a change.
Who introduced that law Sheik?
Dermot Ahern.
Nobody asked for it, nobody needed it but Mr Aherne must have decided religion was above criticism, I bet he’s proud that his archaic law has now suppressed freedom of expression.
Why am I not surprised..and there’s me thinking we were a secular state.
Pakistan praised him for introducing the law though, you know you are doing something wrong when Pakistan is citing you as best practice for blasphemy laws.
After all what happened today it really needs to be abolished
You are correct Dermot. I was puzzled and appalled in equal measure at the time, and we will come to rue that law’s existence. It is cited by other countries also to excuse suppression of free speech
As the Journal have closed the comments section on a Trinity Lecturers intention to seek legal advice, I’ll post here.
Dr Ali Selim can get all the advice he likes but the advice will be the same as I’m giving for free.
Because of the precedent set in Corway v Independent Newspapers you would have no cause of action.
I will be extremely disappointed with our press if they do NOT reprint cartoons depicting Islams prophet tomorrow. The laws we have apply to ALL religions (as set out in Quinn Supermarkets v Attorney General & reaffirmed in the Corway case). It is NOT an equal or pluralist society if we yield to the sensitivities of one particular religion over all others.
Je suis Charlie
Would the far-left every get an imagination?We are all Palestine now, I am this, we are all that. You are like robots. Not surprising seeing as you all unwittingly support state exploitation policies and are their puppets.
1 suspect dead, two others in custody, 2 french nationalists in the 30′s, and an 18 yr old of unknown nationality
So they were right about integration not being 100% successful in France. Delete if you will, Journal.
Well done, Journal, strangling free speech on the next article.
Is mise Charlie.
Its going to be pretty difficult for the Trinity ‘scholar’ to avoid the pictures of his beloved “prophet”.They will probably be stuck to every telephone pole around Trinity for months to come.Id imagine Clonskeagh will be pretty much wall to wall with them aswell.
If Trinity had any balls they should sack him.
Of course some enterprising person could ‘flyer bomb’ his next lecture with them…… And the one after that and the one after that….
Poor Dr Salim, may I remind him that he lives in Ireland and not an Islamic country, if he is not happy with how we react here Insuggest he fecks off back home!
Je suis Charlie
Who is he to tell us what we can or can’t do with satire?? He obviously never saw Father Ted!
How come there’s no moderator on the following article but this thread is still open? Oops, better not say that someone might close it!
He’s on Twitter. Wouldn’t it be awful if people were to tweet him the cartoons. Just terrible.
Extremists who use religion as a way and an excuse to see what it is like to kill another person, bloodlust just to be evil and anger at not being in control and getting their way… Throwing their dummies out of the pram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm9BtjqlVXQ
Vice President Biden: “I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.” What!!!
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