tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post938501748885029265..comments2024-03-29T06:51:03.388+00:00Comments on TPQ: From Derry To ParisAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78532691503513729092015-11-22T09:52:01.904+00:002015-11-22T09:52:01.904+00:00UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: Frenc...<a href="http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/16/309276/uk-planned-war-on-syria-before-unrest/" rel="nofollow"> UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister</a><br /><br />" The statement by Roland Dumas came during a recent interview with French Parliamentary TV network, LCP. "“I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59314760667586770352015-11-21T12:28:45.004+00:002015-11-21T12:28:45.004+00:00Frankie,
I am so pleased you are safe and sound. ...Frankie,<br /><br />I am so pleased you are safe and sound. Good to have your voice around. <br /><br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-31003930305031854972015-11-21T12:15:16.007+00:002015-11-21T12:15:16.007+00:00 Daithi, do you want a long answer or a short vers... Daithi, do you want a long answer or a short version?frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-80438030580422447472015-11-20T21:33:29.010+00:002015-11-20T21:33:29.010+00:00I hope you and all yours were ok in the Paris atta...I hope you and all yours were ok in the Paris attack Frankie, but are you hinting that some hidden hand was directing it? I dont see any improbable finesse in what they did. Once the material was smuggled into the country, it required no great skill to jump from a car to spray diners etc. I think the timeframe between nodes of attack was much shorter than you imply and Paris is over 11x the size DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-63638902819543011662015-11-20T19:21:28.690+00:002015-11-20T19:21:28.690+00:00Doing lots of "catch up" here on TPQ..I ...Doing lots of "catch up" here on TPQ..I have to believe that the local Taliban blow themselves up outside the Stade de France last weekend and Paris wasn't on a "Lock Down" and 30 odd mins after an ASU from the same branch of the local Taliban shot up a couple of restaurants between the 10th & 11th Arr and there wasn't a cop in site..<br /><br />Ok...<br /><br /><frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-78740814213665034992015-11-18T19:04:26.625+00:002015-11-18T19:04:26.625+00:00Diplock Court,
I wrote a piece about it in March...Diplock Court, <br /><br />I wrote <a href="http://thepensivequill.am/2015/03/go-to-halal.html" rel="nofollow">a piece</a> about it in March<br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-16764086673041406732015-11-18T18:48:58.792+00:002015-11-18T18:48:58.792+00:00AM
When I have finished lining all my ducks up I ...AM<br /><br />When I have finished lining all my ducks up I figured I'd write it up. The Dept of Agriculture said it would get back to me on the percentages of livestock that are ritually slaughtered -being generous it should not be more than about 1.5%. Did you know that www.justeat.ie will only investigate complaints where a vendor is claiming the food to be halal but is not. Justeat.ie Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-87548282246374335862015-11-18T17:33:52.385+00:002015-11-18T17:33:52.385+00:00AM, Ive always thought the more people that read t...AM, Ive always thought the more people that read the Koran, and heard about who Mohammed was, the more people would phobe up. Muslims had almost a free pass from criticism because of the rough deal other minorities in the West before them suffered and because of the laziness of non-Muslims in assuming they know something they couldnt possibly know (like the risk associated with mortgage DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-36095082628702968592015-11-18T16:26:44.145+00:002015-11-18T16:26:44.145+00:00Diplock,
not much to disagree with there.
Good ...Diplock,<br /><br />not much to disagree with there. <br /><br />Good for you working on that campaign. A piece perhaps at some point for TPQ? <br /><br />DaithiD has been very firmly in the critically questioning camp - which refuses to accept the distinction often made that the religious terrorism of the theocrats is not rooted in the religion of Islam. <br /><br />I knew a guy in London, AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-18647541255649037272015-11-18T16:18:24.938+00:002015-11-18T16:18:24.938+00:00DaithiD,
it seems that more Muslims are prepared ...DaithiD,<br /><br />it seems that more Muslims are prepared to say that the religion is not hermetically sealed from the murderous ideology, that is it an Islamic problem that needs to be addressed as such by Muslims. <br /><br />Peter,<br /><br />the only similarity is people were unlawfully murdered? Seriously. I note your total lack of ambiguity about Bloody Sunday constituting murder but I AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-91354718875474731552015-11-18T12:30:47.676+00:002015-11-18T12:30:47.676+00:00AM
Maybe that makes it worse for me because I do ...AM<br /><br />Maybe that makes it worse for me because I do know what he has said before and always agreed ...<br /><br />Perhaps it was a bit risky for the imams to have said what they did and it is good that they did. But I realise that the extremes that Islam throws at us lowers our expectations from these men of god or peace -no religion should be allowed to advocate for the death of anyone Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-17855773830818504222015-11-18T11:21:13.345+00:002015-11-18T11:21:13.345+00:00So you woke up on Saturday morning, contemplated t...So you woke up on Saturday morning, contemplated the events of the previous night and thought of Derry in '72? RDE then writes a silly article and it prompts you to respond with your own whataboutery article? The only similarity between Derry and Paris is that innocent people were unlawfully murdered. And there it ends- different time, different place, different context, why did you feel the Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027470398152153427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-46663373638694612022015-11-18T11:20:13.664+00:002015-11-18T11:20:13.664+00:00Thanks AM, yes I droppped my flag on this patch a ...Thanks AM, yes I droppped my flag on this patch a long time ago. Its definitely not as lonely as it once was. Can you clarify :<br /><br /><i> I think it notable that it is making its way into the discourse post-Paris from Muslims despite the risks to them and the howls of Islamophobia</i><br /><br />The from Muslims bit confuses me in the context of the rest of it, which i agree with.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2944649100201434232015-11-18T11:00:39.557+00:002015-11-18T11:00:39.557+00:00Diplock,
Unfortunately if you don't know the ...Diplock,<br /><br />Unfortunately if you don't know the history of DaithiD's comments on these matters the sarcasm will float over your head! I have had the same experience. But he has been very consistent in this line and I think it notable that it is making its way into the discourse post-Paris from Muslims despite the risks to them and the howls of Islamophobia. That most dubious of AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-12148975772286193932015-11-18T10:44:21.900+00:002015-11-18T10:44:21.900+00:00DD
Ops I must have been reading too literal -I ca...DD<br /><br />Ops I must have been reading too literal -I can sometimes misread sarcasm and the rhetorical.<br /><br />We have seen muslims come out publically en-mass all over the world when they feel cartoonists or somebody else has insulted Islam so evidently ISIS does not insult Islam all that much if at all. A number of French imams have voiced their objections to the Paris attacks but how Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-64071726965992451842015-11-18T05:16:28.614+00:002015-11-18T05:16:28.614+00:00Apologies Christy, I thought my sarcasm would be a...Apologies Christy, I thought my sarcasm would be apparent. We can safely deduce no intelligent lessons were learned after the Hebdo attack,as I guessed at the time, any analysis failing to take into account the Life of Mohammed,Islams founder, would not produce a usuable solution. They can have as many viral videos of (apparently) angry Muslims denouncing the latest attackers with swear words, DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59901957632016045142015-11-17T22:30:10.963+00:002015-11-17T22:30:10.963+00:00Alfie,
I like her on a personal basis myself but ...Alfie,<br /><br />I like her on a personal basis myself but as you suggest that is hardly the issue. I never attack her on a personal basis or call her names. Like yourself I make the point that on matters of terrorism she is hopelessly inconsistent and applies the most woeful double standards. I was amazed last year at how easily she tied herself up in knots over Israeli war crimes. Her AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-84018877635152522052015-11-17T21:59:31.630+00:002015-11-17T21:59:31.630+00:00DD
I wouldn't agree with that -ISIS is all ab...DD<br /><br />I wouldn't agree with that -ISIS is all about Islam. Just because other muslims have a conflicting interprtation of Islam that we might prefer all muslims had that does not negate or make void the attrocities carried out in the name of Islam by ISIS and other Islamic organisations. We have a right to scorn the muslim mantra that Islam is a religion of peace just like we have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-20409360224210654962015-11-17T20:27:33.236+00:002015-11-17T20:27:33.236+00:00The only similarity between IS and the IRA is they...The only similarity between IS and the IRA is <b>they are both nothing to do with Islam </b>DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-87565912492325926232015-11-17T19:55:46.391+00:002015-11-17T19:55:46.391+00:00Anthony,
As much as I like Ruth Dudley Edwards on...Anthony,<br /><br />As much as I like Ruth Dudley Edwards on a personal level, I find her reaction to the massacre in Paris to be little more than cheap, opportunistic churnalism. <br /><br />For me, the only meaningful definition of terrorism is the deliberate targeting of civilian populations for a political purpose. Thus, I accept that republicans committed acts of terrorism during the Alfie Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16403732604779381173noreply@blogger.com