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  6. ryoder


    The more I've learned about Belgium, the less I understand why it even exists.



    To brew very very good beers ?
    more seriously, this is just the heritage of history (royal families and so on ...)
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  8. Anvilbrother



    How about those guns that were illegally bought and used in an area with a gun ban.


    As you said, thoses guns were bought illegally. How did they purchased them ? Investigation is on going. It's possible to buy AK's on the black market (balkans are not so far). And if this was organised by the bastards of Al qaeda Yemen as they are claiming, i guess they know how to manage such purchases.
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  10. ryoder

    ***
    http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ddd3904e07d024cc09ecc4d76145f73d?convert_to_webp=true



    Can someone translate that bubble?
    Google translate gives:

    Sexual slaves boko haram angry.
    Touch it to our allocs

    Allocs stands for "allocation familiales", which is what you get from the welfare state to help families.
    I guess they mixed two subjects that were on the headlines at that time.
    Without the context it's hard to understand the point. Be sure they were not blaming the victims.
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  11. lawrocket


    Skyrad has, to his credit, described the killers as psychopaths. He's not defending them. I disagree with his putting blame on the editors/staff. But he's got what I would describe as a "moderate" position. Skyrad is saying that Charlie Hebdo didn't deserve it but sure as hell were asking for it.

    And it seems from the press coverage, Charlie Hebdo's staff knew it as asking for it. Trust me, Vizz magazine wasn't worried about fat slags or cockney wankers killing them.

    As I stated earlier, people who want to live don't poke fun at Islam. That says a lot about Islam itself. Not about Muslims but about Islam.


    They knew the risks, Charb still had a constant protection from the police but they did not deserved what they get. When they republish the cartoon from the the danish newspaper it was in the name of the right of free speech in a free country.
    I bought Charlie Hebdo many times when i was younger, and still read it from time to time. I know a little what CH is about.
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  12. Anvilbrother


    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/11/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-uk-press-publish



    I disagree with the opinion of the article. When British Tabloïds are on their favorite "french bashing" theme many french people could be offended. Where is their sense of responsability in that case ? Why the need to not offend extremist and why do they continue on a regular basis with French people? One difference is that in one case their fear retaliation. Fear makes the difference. They can try to convince themselves that this was not fear but responsability that drives their action, they just don't convince me.

    I guess that Chamberlain was speaking of responsability when he came back from Munich (Such as Daladier ...).
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  13. Skyrad


    I've seen their bile laden excuse for cartoons, lampooning for example the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Harem, children who this rag of a magazine ridiculed and linked to handout on a welfare system. CH is simply a magazine of hate mongers and bigots who use facile and asinine cartoons to get a rise.


    I 'd like to see examples of what your saying
    Some cartoons were bad taste for sure, but bad taste is not a crime.
    Usually there cartoon were not 1 st degree. Some people just don't understand 2 nd or 3 rd degree. Their humor might be hard to understand when you're not French (As sometimes I don't catch British Humor). You don't like, you don't buy. And that's all.
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  16. rushmc

    Hmmm
    Been talked about in 2012
    Go figure

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3305/france-no-go-zones


    Real biased interpretation of facts (some are real and some invented by the author).
    the "ZSP" exists, but they are not "no go zone for non muslims" they most of the time area of drug dealing where policemen enters only when they are enough. 2 cops won't go inside such areas, 20 will go when needed.
    But once again this is not related to religion.
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  19. Anvilbrother


    Its like our drunk guy in a bar example. Hebdo was the drunk asshole yelling insults in the air at a certain race, creed, or religion, and got beat up V.S. the Journalists who were beheaded were simply sitting at the bar quietly and got sucker punched in the back of the head for simply being in the wrong neighborhood.


    Clearly it never happened and they were struggling against xenophobia.
    Some organisations sued them for incitating to racial hatred, Charlie won their trials.
    It seems that you really don't know what this paper was about.
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  21. rehmwa


    I really hate shock journalism. .


    It's clearly not the case. It's a satirical publication, they were not pretending to be journalist (at least for this specific work).

    Attached is a one of their front page. Caption : Love is stronger than hate.
    It was very popular in the streets of paris yesterday. I think many of the people who were demonstrating were just sayin' that there is a place in France for for their work.
    ça passe ou ça frotte

  24. Skyrad

    ***What i read in your message is just full of crap.
    Accepting to shut our mouth because the bear has big balls is just giving up our right to be a democracy.



    Hey if some idiots want to go and provoke terrorists in the full knowledge that those psychos are likely to come and kill them then thats up to them. Lets not pretend that they were heroes of free speech that is just bollocks. They were offensive just to get a rise, they got one. Sadly their shit kicking also got innocent people just trying to live their lives killed when the psychos came looking for them. Actions have consequences.

    Terrorists don't like women to dress the way they like. When they'll say that allowing a woman not to wear à Nikab is provoking, will you put one on your wife to be sure that they won't think you are provoking them. At which point do you propose to stop giving up ?
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  25. Anvilbrother

    True but no one in their right mind would go to Compton, or some bad part of New York and start screaming the N word to every black person they see and expect nothing to happen to them. There is consequences to free speech as great as it is.



    Your comparison makes no sense at all.
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