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Gardaí recover head of 800-year-old mummy stolen from crypt of Dublin Church

The discovery of the theft at the crypt of St Michan’s on Church Street was made shortly before lunchtime last Monday.

The Crusader's skull St Michan's skull recovered by Gardaí An Garda Síochána An Garda Síochána

GARDAÍ IN DUBLIN have recovered the head of an 800-year-old mummy known as ‘The Crusader’ after it was stolen from the crypts of St. Michan’s Church last week. 

The discovery of the theft at the crypt of the church on Church Street was made shortly before lunchtime last Monday when a guide was preparing to open the church for visitors.

The Church of Ireland said the crypt had been “badly damaged” and several of the mummies inside, including the 400-year-old remains of a nun, had been desecrated. The Crusader’s body was turned over and his head had been removed.

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The items were stolen over the weekend of the 23rd-25th February, gardaí have said. Gardaí have also recovered another skull which was stolen during the theft. 

Last week, the Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson said he was “shocked that someone would target this ancient burial place and desecrate the remains of those lying within it”.

The items were recovered as a result of information given to investigating gardaí.

The National Museum of Ireland is acting in an advisory capacity in the case. 

Archbishop Jackson welcomed today’s recovery saying that “the emphasis will now be able to turn to consideration of future security and display of the remains in the crypt of St Michan’s”. 

“Renewed thanks go to all who have shown interest and concern for the mummies. They are a priceless part of the heritage of the city of Dublin and its citizens”.

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    Mute Paddy Mac
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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:42 PM

    Hard to believes it’s going on in this day and age.. They need to be eradicated, it can’t continue! Horrible dogs

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:06 PM

    Really worrying that its happening in the supposedly safer islamic countries like Algeria.

    I have no plans to visit any Islamic countries due to incidents like this. Even former tourist hotspots Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and The UAE seem more radical than they were in the past. I’m well aware that the chances of a thing like this happening are remote but I feel that as a westerner we are widely looked down upon in Islamic countries as lesser beings, infidels and blasphemers and I won’t be going for a visit until that changes.

    RIP to this poor man. And to hell with these disgusting animals.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:11 PM

    Turkey is in bed with IS for sure and its new government is already talking of a 1000 year caliphate. If you book a holiday in Turkey you are supporting IS. And if you buy jeans or pants from Turkey you are supporting IS. Stop.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:14 PM

    How is the UAE more radical now than the past? Have you been there recently? The emiratis have no time for these extremists at all.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:36 AM

    Paddy, this has nothing to do with dog. IS is even worse than dog.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:46 AM

    Dogs are sound. These lads are not.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 1:06 AM

    It’s time that society stopped having to defer to and make allowances for religious preferences, beliefs and random notions out of political correctness and peoples general fear of being accused of religious intolerance.

    - Society should make every fair, just and reasonable allowance for religious people to indulge in their own many and wildly varied religious beliefs as long as it does not affect or hinder rational, sentient people in general.

    But when these beliefs are imposed on our laws, schools, social norms and affect the way non-religious people try and conduct sane, reasonable and normal lives then so help me Allah/Jehovah/God/Santa/Buddah/Simon Cowell/Krishna/The Moon/Insert Random Deity Here…

    Personally religion has great meaning for me, it means dogmatism, hypocrisy, misogyny, acquisition of great wealth, paedophilia, normalisation of cult behaviour in society, beheading, breeding misery, sexually confused and repressed men living twisted lives at the expense of every waiting victim, the ongoing war on contraception, the ludicrously primitive nature and content of the bible – on the 3rd day God made a toasted cheese and ham sandwich, and the Continents.

    Sociology tells us one key thing, every civilisation in every location, at every time holds a few key common characteristics – there I’d usually a religious belief system and a locally conceived and described God – Humans WANT to believe – it’s a primitive inherent need, they need it, choose it and so do it..

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:35 PM

    Don’t go to London, Paris, Oslo, Brussels.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:37 PM

    This is getting out of hand…can someone just obliterate them already!!!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:51 PM

    Agreed! ..where’s all the conspiracy theorists now demanding video evidence & blaming the US & West??? ..this is just pure evil & hatred at work..

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:50 PM

    France and co. are already obliterating the people from these countries with air strikes, that’s why they are retaliating in this way. I know the media over here will never portray the civilians of these countries as the victims but France and co. have killed a lot of people over there. They’re just labeled as terrorists or insurgents so that we will believe they deserved to die.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:54 PM

    Go live among these people whose aim is to bring the world back to the 7th century when Mohammad was about and come back and tell us that they’re just ordinary people Alan.

    That is, if you’re allowed come back.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:16 PM

    Wow, that’s incredibly racist. Well done, good to see you’ve been completely indoctrinated to western media’s messages.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:25 PM

    Usual leftie, throwing around the word racist when someone disagrees with you.

    I said that this group of muslim fundamentalists who beheaded an innocent man because he was French wanted to live in a world like the 7th century, which is their own stated aim. What exactly is racist about that?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:36 PM

    White-Rem, saying that ISIL represent the Muslim people is like saying the KKK represent all Christians.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:37 PM

    How is it racist to oppose these people.??????

    The left in Europe have lost their way.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:39 PM

    Joe Corleone.

    You are the only one who has said that.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:05 PM

    White rem

    Wrong, they didn’t kill him just because he was French like you have twisted it, they asked France to stop the air strikes that are killing their people, France did not stop so they retaliated. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good argument.

    Refering to them as “these people” and insinuating that they would murder me just for going over there is racist all day long, no matter what way you slice it. And forget about labeling me a “leftie” to discredit what I said, that’s pretty lazy on your part, you said what you said no matter what I say.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:09 PM

    I’d personally pay for a one way ticket to Iraq for that fool Alan above. If you loathe your own civilization so much just get the hell out.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:22 PM

    Buckwheat

    Where did I say I loath my own civilisation? Go on, you can copy and paste exactly where I said that, I’ll wait. Oh, that’s right, I didn’t say that at any point. Maybe if you took the 3 crayons you have stuffed up you nose out things might seem a bit clearer.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:34 PM

    Why don’t we send alan farell there for a peace talk..Moron..

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:44 PM

    Alan, does your ass get jealous with ye amount of shit that comes out your mouth?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:45 PM

    Paseasy

    State why I’m a moron.

    This debate began when I pointed out that France and co. are already obliterating the Iraqi people with air strikes and that this is the reason this poor French man has been killed. This point seems to have touched a nerve with some of the people who have responded for some reason. These same people, you included, should read the article again as this a fact, it’s in the article.
    Resorting to insults just cements the fact that you have zero argument against this fact and that all you can muster is your “comment” above.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:46 PM

    I’m afraid arguing with Alan is a waste of time.

    Anyway, I am proud to be a westerner where we (mostly) treat people with respect and where freedom of speech is enshrined. You’re a misguided fool Alan but I’m glad you’re allowed spout your nonsense. In many of the countries you defend, criticism of their society would be less well-received.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:48 PM

    Jamie Heffernan

    Ha! You’re funny! Care to state which part of what I’ve said is “shit” or are you only capable of regurgitating some “funny” comment you saw on the internet somewhere?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:52 PM

    ‘this debate began when I pointed out that France and co. are already obliterating the Iraqi people with air strikes’
    Yes and that’s total and utter BS. It’s ISIS who are obliterating Iraqi’s by the thousand, or maybe you missed those pictures of hundreds of soldiers being executed by these lunatics. It was kind of hard to, they were splashed practically every media outlet.

    Get a grip and stop being a terrorist sympathiser. You’ll probably deny that you are one, but your posts say otherwise.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 8:18 PM

    @ Scipio

    I’m a terrorist sympathiser now? Tell me exactly where I said that? You said my posts said it so please, indulge me.

    I’m against the killing of civilians, not terrorists, to deny that civilians have been killed by French, US and co. airstrikes shows how incredibly naive you are.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 8:46 PM

    Rem

    A little slow are you? There’s only so much of your insults I can take. I’ll try to dumb this down a little, just for you. I am not defending the killing of this poor French man, as again, you have twisted it to sound like. I said they had a reason, again, it is stated in the article. Maybe you should read it again? Just because I pointed out a fact that you had no argument to you blew the whole thing up to make me look like I support terrorists.

    Then you launch in to the whole “I’m proud to be a Westerner” spiel to try and paint yourself as “the good guy” and me as some sort of “bad guy”. At the end of the day all you did was twist things to suit your argument, put words in my mouth and insult me when all I had been pointing out was that the French and co. were already bombing Iraq.

    Pathetic.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:19 PM

    Alan.

    Your are a moron. Read over what he said. Try to leave the righteous attitude aside and just read it.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:20 PM

    Shut up Alan will ya, please. You’ve lost.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:28 PM

    Seanie

    I did read over what he said, he basically threw semi-veiled insults my way, again, and then put words in my mouth by saying I was defending “these countries”.

    I can tell by the start of your comment, where you also insulted me, that you are of a higher intellect than most. Seeing as you are in agreement with him, please point out where I defended “these countries”.

    To the last guy, can’t remember your name, I lost? All I was pointing out was that France and co. were already bombing Iraq, are you saying they aren’t?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:33 PM

    That didn’t go too well Alan did it?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:36 PM

    Alan Farrell… You truly are a dick. Your stupidity is not a cause for you to feel proud of yourself at all.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:41 PM

    @alan… Stop before you embarrass yourself further, you genuinely have not got a clue what you are on about, seriously, stop.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:47 PM

    Alan, honestly the west are no angels, but what do you honestly think would happen if you were a tourist someplace and were abducted by Isis. What if through your superior empathy and reading the correct news sources said to them “Wait, I’m not like other westerns. I understand you and why you are doing this and even though I am not part of your culture, I accept your right to both exist and believe as you wish without the West interfering. Then we together can mutually accept each other and share in a rich and peaceful life full of tolerance and understanding. I accept you!”

    Yeah, I think we’d all be seeing a video of you soon enough. I think you are confusing that because the West has done wrong sometimes (although not all the time), this somehow justifies what this group are doing to people who have not directly harmed anyone and somehow ennobles this group as freedom fighters. I personally think this is naive and vehemently disagree, but to each their own I suppose.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:52 PM

    Yep, yawn…

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:23 PM

    Alan u are a complete disgrace and to say that they had a reason, questions ur intelligence. Of course the western world is guilty of atrocities, nobody is doubting that. These monsters are not carrying out such crimes only on westerners but on their own citizens. Look at the news, esp the Turkish news where u can see people are fleeing from eg Syria because their daughters have been kidnapped and their husbands have been beheaded. All in the name of Islam???No religion and I stress that, allows such things to happen. These monsters must be erradicated.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:25 PM

    Alan. Where did I say that you were defending them?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:40 PM

    And plus Alan I don’t agree with war but what i also don’t condone are statements from someone who is covering their identity. U are either a troll or someone who is on the way to’jihad’. U are a disgusting piece of work… It is not in my eyes a conspiracy when I hear from people what is happening. I don’t think the French president can allow ( ratings wise) negative publicity and such is the extent of this current news

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:44 PM

    Alan, France has had no involvement in Iraq. Do you not recall that they refused to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:36 PM

    Well done Alan. Don’t let the bigots beat you down.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:53 PM

    Alan what will you have to say when one of these nutters takes someone off a street in Ireland then makes a video of them and then takes the head of them. ???

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:35 AM

    Racism is such an overused and thrown around word it has lost its meaning.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:40 AM

    You are a lefty playing the race card because you have no point and no I will not bother defeating the illogic of you point because it has already been done in too many other places.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 3:37 AM

    “I’m not defending the killing of this poor French man”.

    Well you’re certainly excusing it. The difference is a very, very fine line.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:04 AM

    Cant you smell right wing poorly educated Gombeens on here.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 7:43 AM

    Well said seamus! Fox News must be cheap with their sky subscription!

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    Sep 25th 2014, 8:12 AM

    They killed him for money and power. Maybe they didn’t get a ransom this time but they sure did some advertising to the family of the next victim. Remember too that Saudi Arabia has beheaded eight people in the last month alone. I’m not racist, I’m humanist and I think Islam is an affront to civilisation.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 11:56 AM

    Seanie when are you flying out to fight these militants

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:38 PM

    Move to IS please and All the Lefty PC bandwagon.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:41 PM

    Islam is not a race let me say that again so it can go into your head Islam is not a race. Christianity is not a race, Buddhists are not a race, do you understand.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 2:11 PM

    @SeanieRyan. I am left wing but I see militant Islam and their Sharia as a threat to civilisation. I think your right. The left are not seeing Islamofascism for what it is. It is forcing and subjugating people to a centralised fixed ideology. the children of Europe will curse us for allowing these bigots to gain control and they will. Demographics are on their side. No to Islamophobia and No to Sharia Fascism.

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    Oct 2nd 2014, 9:21 PM

    Shut up Alan

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    Nov 16th 2014, 8:19 AM

    Alan Farrel are you living in the same world as the rest of us?

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    Nov 16th 2014, 8:22 AM

    Alan why dont you go hiking in Algeria, lets know how you get on………

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:53 PM

    This is so heartbreaking… An innocent man abducted, held hostage & then beheaded! How long is this going to continue? It’s getting out of control now . Feel so sorry for the family of this man.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:02 PM

    Ok, meant beheading not cuddling!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:44 PM

    There needs to be a voice from the Muslim communities around the world speaking out against IS. Why are they not doing so?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:57 PM

    “The problem isn’t fundamentalism. The problem with Islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam”-Sam Harris.

    “A radical Muslim wants to behead you, a moderate Muslim wants a radical Muslim to behead you”

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:00 PM

    They are, constantly, on every forum there is! And there are any amount of “Muslims against ISIS” groups out there. Not to mention Muslims have been fighting against IS (and dying/being executed in their hundreds) for quite some time now.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:01 PM

    Mark, there’s been countless condemnations of these events by Muslim leaders all over the world. Just because you’re not aware of it doesn’t mean that it’s not the case. The vast majority of Muslims are as appalled as you out I are.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:04 PM

    They actually have. There has been a show of solidarity from some Arab nations in response to these barbaric executions, Egypt, Jordan and Qutar et al have all shown opprobrium and disgust towards these unjustifiable and inhumane killings! But yet they ignore it, which is why I support the position undertaken my the West. And maybe further actions are necessitated until this movement is deracinated completely.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:10 PM

    Or they see them as a political threat hence their response?.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:18 PM

    Well I’d be cynical of the support coming from some of the countries getting involved. The house of Saud are just as bad as IS so I’m not exactly happy with how things are going in the fight against IS. The Saudis are the main instigators and backers of the efforts to make Sunni/wahaabi Islam the dominant force in the middle east with all the proxy war that entails. In general the west has backed the worse (by far) of two evils by siding with the Sunni Saudis over Shia Iran, in my opinion anyway.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:26 PM

    Michael it is not just the position taken by the West. At least 5 Muslim nations are actively supporting the airstrikes against Islamic State.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:18 PM

    And two of those nations Lamb have and continue to fund ISIL.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 8:58 PM

    Mark the reason the Muslims around the world are not talking against Isis they have big plans for us can’t you see they are moving right across Europe building mosques every where soon there will be more Mosques than churches, how many Muslims have moved into Ireland lately? In fact how are they getting in in large numbers,

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:02 PM

    Michael
    You must be joking regarding Quatar on your list that country finances nearly all Islamist terrorist including Hamas in Gaza.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:46 PM

    Joe, including one of your favorite countries – Iran!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:56 PM

    Eh, are you saying Iran fund ISIS?! Because if you are you couldn’t have less of an understanding of what is going on there if you tried? Sorry, not trying to be nasty or anything, maybe I’m just misunderstanding something there?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:20 AM

    Haha.. good one, Declan. Yes, Shia Iran are funding the most extreme Sunni Jihadist group on earth. It’s how you tell them, son.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:32 AM

    Petr, take a little time and google it. Remember this is the black market- lots of shady people. Turkey is also mentioned. So don’t accuse me of cherry picking like your side does.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:34 AM

    Oh God Declan, you actually have no idea how hilariously wrong you are.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:01 AM

    Don’t know about IS Petr, but Shia Iran certainly funds Sunni extremist groups, Hamas being a prime example.

    In fact Iran sponsors numerous proxy groups (of all persuasions) outside its own borders in order to further its regional agendas and ambitions, a fact which seems to be lost on many Journal commenters who support Iran.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:08 AM

    @Joe, don’t forget big uncle Sam has being arming them to the teeth. In order to take down Assad. Remember Afghanistan folks and look what happened after.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:40 PM

    Fukin cowards..I would join any army to exterminate them fukers..

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:30 PM

    Would you? Really?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:31 PM

    Fair play to you. Which army will you be signing up for, and when?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:35 PM

    Would.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 8:28 PM

    Would…..if…?

    So, what you’re saying is, you would..but you won’t. I’m confused..

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    Sep 25th 2014, 3:19 AM

    Go join the legion

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:42 PM

    Cowardly Ba—-ds. Killing innocent people. Words just fail me.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:47 PM

    They need to be wiped out quicker…

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:44 PM

    RIP, why would IS think there god wants so much violence

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:05 PM

    Because their nonsense book says he does…

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:45 PM

    Beheading and all this were a core part of Mohammed’s life. The Koran is full of invocations to kill infidels and go to holy war.

    It is a religion made up by a warlord on the battlefield, how can it not have violence as its defining belief?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:19 AM

    @Seanie Ryan, racist you are. Do you know , there has been a rise of attacks on the Irish community by right wing fascists groups like the EDL and Britain first in the North of England.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 7:48 AM

    So it’s a bit like the ould bible then!

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    Sep 25th 2014, 11:58 AM

    Seanie … You have never read the Koran .. Indeed have you read the Bible ?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:23 PM

    As an Algerian, I totally condemn this unspeakable act of barbarism !!!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:47 PM

    Well said man. These people have nothing to offer, but hate. We should all stand against them.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:38 PM

    What a lot of people seem to ignore is that The Algerians suffered immensely from
    a very bitter war against terrorism for more than a decade during the nineties !

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:43 PM

    It’s not so much they ignore it, more they simply don’t know about it. Also “more than a decade during the nineties” ? ; )

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:58 PM

    Also I know all about how the French terrorised and brutalised the Algerians for years, but maybe that’s beside the point, eh?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:01 PM

    Mea Culpa ! It lasted for more than a decade (It started in the 90′s) ! bed time for me …

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:29 PM

    I was only havin’ the craic Mohamed, oiche maith.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:40 PM

    Mohamed — To be fair, the FIS won elections. They should have been allowed to govern. Anyway that’s just a sidepoint. Algeria is such an inspiring country, their war of liberation against the French inspired millions.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:57 PM

    Petr, so much resentment in Africa, both in the Arab north and the sub-Saharan south towards Europe because of its brutal colonial history. Many don’t grasp this.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:58 PM

    Soccer and cheeseburgers doesn’t make everything ok.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:18 AM

    True, Jamie.. on both counts!

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:43 AM

    *don’t.. damn my pedantic tendencies.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 8:06 AM

    True Mohamed Algeria had its very own ISIS in the GIA, who massacred indiscriminately, beheading and slitting the throats of Journalists and the murdering of over 100 hundred foreigners not to mention the burning of schools that allowed mixed classes, their disdain for liberated women knew no bounds murdering women for not wearing the hijab or headscarf even women who held professional careers among other barbaric acts, all in the name of Islam I’m afraid!.

    Your support for a hate preacher like Ahmed Deedat leaves your condemnation of the ISIS head hackers somewhat powder puff!.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 9:33 AM

    Thanks Petr !

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    Sep 25th 2014, 9:37 AM

    What are you on about ? would you call someone who held numerous inter-religious public debates a hate preacher !! It sounds like an Inquisition to me

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    Sep 25th 2014, 10:56 AM

    Funny isn’t it Mohamed that other Islamic hate preacher Zakir Naik took his inspiration from Deedat?.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 2:14 PM

    Sharia is barbarism. Conservative, anti women,anti LGBT and religious minorities and oppressive against working class people.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 5:02 PM

    Agreed Tarlach. Sharia is anti-human. Imagine banning music.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:06 PM

    absolute barbaric cowardly demons.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:40 PM

    There’s nothing I can say about IS that hasn’t already been said. Death to every last person involved with them, hope they die screaming

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:10 PM

    Great, then even more people will join them and the circle continues. All on the back of the fantastic economic situation we find ourselves in.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:41 PM

    Filthy dirty savages. These fanatics are the lowest form of life, cowardly bullies.
    Thugs using religion as an excuse to rob, rape and murder.
    Send the troops in and wipe them out.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:25 PM

    It’s nothing new, they have been around for a 1000 years on and off, except we now have 10s of millions at our own bank door, just take a quick look across the water to UK and much neater to home a few shops in Limerick have been asked not to sell bacon! (pork)

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:08 PM

    @Taxi Bill , are you serious , about the shops , i mean, ??

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:15 PM

    You are joking ! Taxi , who asked and what answer did they get ?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:34 PM

    That’s almost as bad as making shops and off-licenses stay closed on mass day. What kind of backward country would do that?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:07 PM

    Wait until Frank & Co arrive to tell us that it’s all fake and nobody was beheaded. That its all a plot by the US for world domination.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:32 PM

    Mick Jordan .. Irrespective if this is fake or genuine the US will always hijack the situation.

    As Churchill stated: “Never let a good crisis go to waste”

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:57 PM

    ‘Irrespective if this is fake or genuine.’

    Implication being you think it may be staged? Tell that to this poor man’s family.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:26 PM

    It may be staged (I’m not saying it is or isn’t), the company that released the video, SITE, is a US run middle east intelligence agency, known for releasing Osama Bin Laden tapes that were said to be fake. They also released the previous alleged beheading videos by ISIL, which experts claimed to be staged.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:28 PM

    white-rem .. seeing is believing..

    all the preceding videos have been proven to be fake as was James Foleys Sister.

    ISIS “Beheadings” Copycat of Turkish TV soap drama Series!!!! watch 33 seconds in!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lp8vAQ3qAI

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:59 PM

    Frank read the comments from your own link, its a turkish show that always keeps its storylines to whats going on in the world, this is no different they have been doing it for 12 years, i say you just see anything that fits your argument and go with it, pretty lazy frank

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:16 PM

    No they have not Frank. You have to come back to earth buddy. Read Snopes and metabunk for a change. What do you have lined up for us on Friday.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:17 PM

    So Don as a revert or pervert or refit how do you feel about all these guys saying your religion is a heap of dung?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:00 PM

    Everyone’s entitled to their opinions kid.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:08 PM

    Joe, you have yet to tell me of the Syrian site that you are a moderator of?
    Will you not let me check it out?
    Your kind of full of yourself to think that you have some kind of voice in this conflict that will make a change for the better.
    You, Horgay and frank are fools.
    Btw, where’s your side kick glen?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:16 AM

    @Golden
    “experts claim [the beheadings] to be staged”
    What experts?
    And I’m also waiting to find out which forum you’re a moderator on – time to p1ss or get off the pot….

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:56 PM

    That’s it! send In the Expendables! Seriously though, this is a plague that needs to be wiped out.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:50 PM

    Any Is muppet they catch should be tortured for a day or two then they should start cutting pieces off him starting with his fingers and toes and so on until he dies. Then send them the video.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:01 PM

    Why? I thought the whole point was that torturing, beheading and cuddling it was wrong and kinda the problem with these guys?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:02 PM

    What do you reckon that will achieve?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:04 PM

    Videoing even, stupid autocorrect! :)
    My point still stands though.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:31 PM

    So we become the same as them?? Then who is right and who is wrong?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:40 PM

    Fact this got 33 up votes is disturbing in its own right

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:36 PM

    Wake up and smell the bacon people . The UK is over Un with Muslims . Coming to a screen near you eire !!!!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:01 PM

    So you’re saying that each and every Muslim in the UK is a threat? Please, do elaborate.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:58 PM

    We’ll just brush those beheadings of young soldiers and Muslim pedophile rape gangs under the carpet.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 1:02 AM

    IS are vile and must be eradicated and those men should have to spend the rest of their lives behind bars but you can’t hold all Muslims accountable for the actions of these vile animals. Statements like this are unhelpful and only serve to drive a wedge through relations between religions and different groups in society. Just my thoughts.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:24 PM

    There needs troops on the ground as well as airstrikes.all the nation’s that’s involved in targeting these swines need to start flexing more military muscle.and hunt them to the end of the earth.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:11 PM

    Swine is too good a term for them.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:32 PM

    Where exactly would you send the troops?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:38 PM

    Muppets…thats all i got!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:41 PM

    Maybe when the wealthy oiligarchs from Qatar and Saudi stop funding these reptiles then and only will they be eradicated. Air strikes so far havent even killed 100 of these terrorists in Syria past 2 days. There are an estimated 30,000 isis members in Syria and Iraq. Do the math.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:10 PM

    Nuclear bomb wants to be dropped over there, sorted then

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:26 PM

    @ Brian : If we follow your analogy , We should have nuked the Isle of Eire during the troubles ? your answer is Intellectually and Morally “Sound”…

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:36 PM

    Who is we ?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 4:57 PM

    why are people red thumbing any of the above comments, that’s worrying

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:02 PM

    thats the new left as i like to call them. basically a rabble of conspiracy theorists and pot heads that believe after going on a few nutjob websites and watching a few conspiracy vids on youtube they are experts on geopolitics. i feel sorry for them because i cant imagine being that stupid

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:56 PM

    Pot heads? I’d put conspiracy nuts in a category where they didn’t smoke. Interesting.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:00 PM

    Actually………
    Joe Corleone
    Albitive (frank)
    Glen
    Do any of you smoke the funny stuff?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:11 PM

    Chief .. Not since my student years..

    There is not much of a conspiracy left in these stories anymore..

    The reality so far..

    Three faked ISIS beheading that has lead to the illegal invasion of Syria to catch these bogymen that were originally armed, trained and funded by Mossad, USA and Saudi Arabia.

    The real casualties out of all this are the 11 civilians (Collateral Damage) including 4 children that have got blown to bits by US missiles on Syrian soil. (Not a mention in Western Mainstream Media because they are too caught up in their fake stories)

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/23/379732/us-hits-syria-targets-kills-11-civilians/

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    Sep 24th 2014, 8:06 PM

    What I find most disturbing from this comment Frank is the revelation that you’re not a teenager. You’re a grown adult and you believe this fake beheading nonsense (among plenty of other stuff) with every fiber of your being. Such a shame.

    But let’s move on to the next conspiracy shall we?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:19 PM

    I get the strong impression that most of you haven’t seen the ‘beheadings’. The first three were patently fake, and they were all carbon copies of each other. I have not seen the most recent one, so cannot comment.

    Could we all please ‘Play the Ball and not the Man’. It’s not appropriate to be attacking people personally, particularly when they are presenting things in a clear and logical manner. Frank is constantly being attacked, but I really do think he’s the most informed person on here. You would all do well to listen up. Well done Frank for having the courage to speak up.

    Guys, when people challenge your World View, the easy reaction is to attack, but the better reaction is to listen and do your own research. I promise that you will come to similar conclusions as the ‘conspiracy theorists’.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:27 PM

    Dave Davis .. Don’t put words into my mouth, I never said that this beheading was a fake, I mentioned the previous ones were. However if there is a release of the video we will know soon enough when professionals will rip the footage to pieces to see if there is any flaws.

    Western Propaganda is rampant at the moment now that the foot is in the door on Syria to oust Assad and turn his country into another US drone filled bloodbath.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:31 PM

    did the mossad pay for your tinfoil hat?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:57 PM

    ok. so the beheadings were faked by the wider intelligence community for the purpose of invading the territiory held by isis (syria/iraq). one of these countries the us has already abandoned due to the fact they could not win. basically you are stating that they came up with a big elaborate conspiracy so they could go back in to a war that they can not win. so your arguement is basically that said nations are intelligent enough to invent large scale conspiracies but dont have the intelligence to go any farther than that. your logic is flawed…….well its not even logic if one is to be honest

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:58 PM

    In fact I am more and more inclined to believe that this is also a fake because the video was produced by Site Intel Group which is an Israeli outfit which have so far produced all the previous beheading videos that have been proven fake.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:04 PM

    bless

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:04 PM

    Frank, tomorrow is the 25th. So what’s going to happen as per your prediction? You gave us all 3 dates in September and said something big was going to happen. 2 of those dates have passed. Last chance tomorrow?
    Tomorrow night I will be hounding you for a answer.
    Fool!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:05 PM

    They don’t need to fake beheading videos, ISIS have been beheading (and filming it) hundreds of people for months. Also, the videos have all been independently verified! Not to mention the US were already helping the Iraqi military before westerners were getting beheaded. It makes absolutely no sense. If anything the US is gonna be involved regardless after all the effort and expense it went to in trying to set up a mostly compliant and relatively stable puppet government in Iraq!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:19 PM

    Declan Noonan

    The biggest event this month has already come to pass exactly 11 after 9/11 when the US illegally invaded Syria with their terrorist supporting KSA allies on the pretext of another dirty lie, fake be headings. I have not seen one mention in Western MSM about the 11 Syrian civilian deaths from air strikes (collateral damage as you would refer to them as).

    Hopefully nothing will materialize tomorrow, I was expecting a string of false flags leading up to and after the 13th anniversary of 9/11. However bombing or should I say the pretending to bomb ISIS will definitely lead to plenty of them in the near future, US, EU and Australia no doubt..

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:33 AM

    I’m not having a go at you Ablitive but why should we belive your sources of information are anyone accurate than the “Western propoganda” like most in here you are either a troll or have your own agenda, that no amount of proof will stay you from because it will get in the way of your point.

    So is it more likely the West is dropping bombs on innocent people for giggles than it is religious fundamentalists have beheaded people in the name of a profit where there is strangely little hard evidence to prove ever existed like all God’s.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 2:37 AM

    I’m starting to fall in love with Frank. He’s the Carol Vorderman of the conspiracy community. 7, 11, 13, give me any number… I’ll do my Rain Man and make ‘em add up to whatever you want. Sept 25… 2+5 =7… Result! 2014… 2+0+1+4=7… Result! It’s kind of like picturing a masterpiece, but painting by numbers.

    We ‘sheeple’ as Frank refers to us, are all just mindlessly fools just following the flock, and we just absolutely believe everything we see and hear from CNN, BBC, ITV, SKY etc, …

    … Just as Frank believes everthing he sees and hears from RT, PressTV, Infowars, YouTube is absolute…

    When you crunch numbers to reveal truth, you are… just winging it and predicting the future by numbers, coincidences, and only seeing the magic number and picture you imagined in your head that fits with the agenda you established without any need for facts or numbers. The beauty for Frank is that he can’t not come up with a number that correlates with the world around him. Therefore, he cannot be wrong.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:08 AM

    @Enda
    Sounds all fine and dandy, but please enlighten us as to how you do your ‘research’…

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:09 AM

    @Frank
    Please post your “proof” that these beheadings were faked (ps. conspiracy blogs don’t count as proof).

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    Sep 25th 2014, 8:51 AM

    Hi Avina, I get my news from various sources, but as I stated previously, do your own research. We’re being told a pack of lies about pretty much everything, so it shouldn’t be too hard.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 10:19 AM

    The evidence is that the videos were staged, Frank – not faked. Different things.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:53 PM

    Where are all our immigration-pushers tonight telling us what great contribution these people are making to our society!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:35 PM

    A tiny number of fanatics, mostly young men, are hardly representative of immigration in general to this country. Remember that the next time you fancy a Chinese takeaway or a one and one.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:06 PM

    Chinese fast food is your justification for mass immigration?! Laughable.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:24 PM

    No, it’s me responding to a UKIP type. Only Ireland isn’t England. Yes we may have something to watch, but I myself would be welcoming towards foreigners in Ireland, it would be a base instinct.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:39 PM

    Who’s that lad in your picture by the way?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:04 AM

    any response, ukip calling?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 1:25 AM

    geebag is all you are.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:43 PM

    There hasn’t been an article in a few days about The Journal’s poster boy for multiculturalism in the Cairo jail. Another citizenship giveaway there the other day also…

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:47 PM

    Nobody hadith given a f*ck. Islam is for morons.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:10 PM

    These people are disturbed beyond belief or reality! Viewed a video last nite of two truck loads of innocent men being marched to a river side, shot in head one by one and falling in to river with hands cable tied behind backs.. Sorry i viewed it as it was horrendous carry on from human beings!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:19 PM

    That’s why I don’t look at them videos man. Black and white pictures and footage of WW2 and the Holocaust as a kid was enough to turn me off the face of human cruelty and suffering.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:27 PM

    From west Africa to east Asia, America to Europe, Islamic fundamentalists are in place and ready to strike. There will be blood.

    That could have been written 20 years ago.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 5:15 PM

    Prepare for more of this unfortunately. As long as the bombs drop this won’t stop.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 6:47 PM

    This has been going on since the 7th Century. It was old 700 years before America existed.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 7:43 PM

    What has Seany? The systematic beheading of westerners to get a reaction? No, this is new. This is IS’ signature. Beheadings in the ME though, yes. Look no further than Saudi Arabia, over twenty so far this year.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:21 PM

    Beheading opponents, civilians to incite terror and submission is straight from Mohammed’s style of warfare. It is a sanctioned act and is encouraged in the Koran and the haditha.

    It is new to us but it is as old as Islam.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:30 PM

    It’s either you know nothing about history or you’re lying …and by the way, It’s Hadith and not “Haditha”

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    Mute Éire Calling
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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:50 PM

    Ah sure here’s Mohamed to spread the word of the religion of peace!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:21 PM

    You’re answer is Intellectually Sound …anything to add ?

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:23 PM

    Between the two of us, You’re the one wearing a military outfit !!

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:37 PM

    Look at the Banu Qurayza, the men behaded and the women and children taken as booty.

    Mohammed was probably schizophrenic. Without the medication and modern help and the violent standards of the time it made brutality inevitable.

    People need to be educated that this was not the perfect man, but a sick individual who did not have the luxury of modern care to help him.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:47 PM

    hmmm ..Wikipedia! start by educating yourself …

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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:58 PM

    I read the Koran a few years ago.

    What a mess of contradiction and delusion.

    The man was bat shi7 crazy when he wrote it and it only gets worse.

    Islamic scholars and Imans needs to stress that Mohammed’s teachings and deeds are not for replication in the modern world but were a product of the time and the wars he was fighting in.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:36 AM

    “The man was bat shi7 crazy when he wrote it ”

    What man? Do you think Mohammed wrote the Koran??

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    Sep 25th 2014, 1:21 AM

    Im with you there Seanie and its the biggest threat to our civilisation at the moment.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 9:45 AM

    You’re as as disrespectful as inaccurate .. starting by your lexicology …Who wrote the Koran ? also what does Imans means ??

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:01 PM

    You never read the Koran .. Seanie
    I suppose who wrote about about Noah’s Ark / a father killing his son and the evils of masturbation were shi7 crazy as well …

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:04 PM

    and Jesus was an alcoholic turning water into wine and high on drugs walking on water
    People need to be educated i.e SeanieRyan to stop posting inflammatory comments on the internet to get attention

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    Mute Adrian McBride
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    Sep 24th 2014, 10:50 PM

    Dirty shower of terrorists.

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    Sep 24th 2014, 11:05 PM

    Hey man what’s happening! Any pot noodles this evening?

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    Sep 25th 2014, 2:54 AM

    we know the brits are terrorists, no need to repeat it

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    Sep 24th 2014, 9:37 PM

    Its wrong

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:11 AM

    These groups constantly try to take the moral high ground only to resort to barbarism. I obviously wouldn’t condone it, but be interesting to see what would happen if the infidels in the West started picking innocent Muslims off the streets and beheading them on the Internet.

    The IS know full well the West will not give into their demands. They don’t represent even a tiny minority of Muslims. They’re commiting mass genocide on other Muslims on a daily basis and are other Muslim groups are taking up arms against them. Or for Alan the western media is brain washing us just to vilify these misunderstood freedom fighters against the evil Western oppression.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 10:25 AM

    There is no radical Islam, there is no moderate Islam…there is only Islam. These men as disgraceful and disgusting as they are have their justification in the Koran..no matter how people try to deny it.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:59 AM

    The longer they leave them the worse n hatder itl get to wipe them out. I see more deaths by their hands before this is sorted

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    Sep 25th 2014, 7:42 AM

    They have 1,000′s of hostages and they use to get what they want, money. They pretend they are fighting a cause, they are just barbaric kidnappers, murderers and thief’s. Take the hostages away from them by whatever force is necessary and then bury them all alive.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 12:33 PM

    Please can we find any positive news about Islam there has to be something out there.

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    Sep 26th 2014, 3:49 AM

    Radical Islam wants to cut off your head, moderate Islam wants radical Islam to cut off your head.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 9:12 AM

    Why do our governments allow media to release video footage of this disgusting war crime. Can our governments pass some sort of law not to air such a thing in the near future. Are we not publish-sizing terrorist all over the world. I just do not understand.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:59 PM

    because the world needs to see this evil . it cant be censored ( I didnt watch – i just believe more conspiracy theorists will rubbish future claims if we censor.)

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:58 PM

    Terrorist fcuckers

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:41 AM

    Journal stop censoring posts

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:43 AM

    @eirecalling, you are just a nazis and not welcome in my country. S…m of the earth.

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:02 AM

    Journal where are my posts

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    Sep 25th 2014, 4:40 AM

    Journal, stop censoring Posts

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    Sep 25th 2014, 6:53 AM

    What happens when they run out of hostages?

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