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Even I was shocked that the Pope came out in favour of the terrorists
On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis is using the wife-beater’s defence
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...bdo?CMP=twt_gu
On the day another cartoonist victim was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, the pope came as near as dammit to suggesting that Charlie Hebdo had it coming. “One cannot provoke; one cannot insult other people’s faith; one cannot make fun of faith,” he said.
Oh yes, you can. You may not choose to. It may not be wise or polite or kind – but you can. And to show you can, without being gunned down, Charlie Hebdo has just gone on sale in the UK, in bolder outlets, proudly defiant with an image of Muhammad on the cover – though with a tear and a kindly thought: “All is forgiven.”
The pope pointed to his aide as he said “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal. It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
No, it’s not normal to punch someone who insults you; the pope’s Christ certainly didn’t think so. Verbal provocation is never an excuse for violence – that’s the wife-beater’s defence.
Is he saying we must respect any old cult: followers of Black Sabbath, Odin, Scientology, astrology? Or is it the size of a faith that earns it the right to gag mockery?
Whenever the faiths come together to protect their rights jointly, you should smell a rat. They don’t just believe very different things; their professions contradict one another. In real life, it’s Catholic against Protestant, Hindu against Muslim, except in the soup blender of Thought for the Day, where only gentle and similar voices preaching peace and understanding get a voice. Absent is the red-hot ferocity that fuels the Islamists of Isis as they slaughter Christians, or the proselytising Nichiren Bhuddists, or the extremists from Northern Ireland’s religious fringes. Religion is gentle only when it’s powerless, without secular influence.
Charlie Hebdo’s cover will no doubt offend some Muslims – and possibly provoke some. That’s the role of a satirical magazine: to stick two fingers up to propriety. It is a belch in the face of established taste and dignity. You can buy it or not, find it funny or not. Its previous circulation was small, but knowing anything can be said keeps the outer edges of free expression healthy.
The pope went on to say: “There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity … in freedom of expression there are limits.”
Yes, free speech always had limits – the old shouting fire in a theatre or inciting others to violent racial hatreds: those boundaries will be forever disputed. But there has been much ducking and diving over the last week, with a pretence those limits include a ban on offending religious sensitivity. That’s what the pope was proclaiming, demanding a special, anti-Voltairean status of protection for religious ideas – a respect never given to political or other ideas just as passionately he
Today another 50 lashes with the cane rain down on Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia. “Je suis Raif” is starting to trend on social media as he faces 19 more weeks of flogging for writing his secularist blog Free Saudi Liberals. Governments that flocked to march in solidarity for free speech in Paris last Saturday have done little about this atrocity – far worse when inflicted by a state than by God-delirious terrorists acting as divine executioners. If all those leaders linking arms turned their backs on any dealings with Saudi Arabia, whose Wahbabist insanity has been sent out to infect parts of the Muslim world, they would make more than a gesture for free speech.
The right to make fun of popes, imams and prophets is fading fast as self-censorship for commercial, as much as self-preserving, instincts stops the presses.
The flurry of scandal over Oxford University Press stopping its children’s writers from referring to pigs or pork for fear of risking Middle East sales – or the Harper Collins atlases for export that mysteriously omit Israel for the same reason – show how easily freedom slips away unless scurrilous outriders like Charlie Hebdo can keep mocking church and mosque.
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You were "shocked" by the Pontiff's statement? Really? Doesn't surprise me at all when you consider how fucking corrupt, greedy, and full of shit the Catholic Church truly is. I grew up and was brainwashed in the Catholicism Cult of Shitdom and can tell you not only can one insult "people's faith" but the cancer of religion, any religion should be eradicated from the face of this earth.
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Don't let [him] fool you. You are in enemy country. Be alert. Suspicious of everyone. Take no chances. They have had no free speech and read no free press. They were brought up on straight propaganda. They have been trained to hate and destroy. Don't argue with them. Don't try to change their point of view. You will not be friendly. You will be aloof. Don't clasp that hand. It's not the kind of a hand you can clasp in friendship.
Boy oh boy. What a ruckus a false flag causes. If that cop was shot in the head his brains would have been blown all over, the bullet would have damaged the pavement. Interesting this happens right after France was starting to side with the Palestinians. Netanyahu wasted no time showing up for the arm lock photo-op. Looks like the real terrorist may be Israel on this one.
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False flag ....
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People being led down another dumb false flag nonsense often started by antisemites.
This one seems to be based entirely on the assumption that Quentin Tarantino and video games are hyper realistic.
If you wish to insist on this nonsense then here's someone shot in the head at close range in real life...
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And you wouldn't know what a fucking hipster is even if one signed your welfare check.
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As long as you keep it a secret, I'm sure they're hiring just ask Alex Jone$ for a reference
So when do crisis actors get their own awards show?
And will Alex Jones be the host?
kwame k (01-20-2015)
Possibly, if he's not too busy reporting from the newest FEMA camp
I think we are on to something here.
kwame k (01-20-2015)
We should start our own radio show..........Crisis Actors Live!
Ask them questions like;
How much advance notice do they get.
How much do they make per false flag event.
Do they have to get special training.
Even Alex Jones doesn't seem to be fully going for this one, which explains ELVIS silence.
The level of disbelief to the official story is even too much for conspiracy theory HQ, Infowars.
Ahmed Merabet, one of two police officers brutally murdered while patrolling the street outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, was buried Tuesday in Bobigny. That is, if you are to believe the totality of evidence, including his family’s heartbroken statements, the official government response to his death, and actual video of his murder. However, some conspiracy theorists, believe it or not, are finding all that rather unconvincing.
In fact, it’s the video documentation of the event that leads them to deny its legitimacy—something too nuts for even radio host and Infowars founder Alex Jones, himself the sort of person who speaks about the Illuminati with a straight face.
“It’s become a whole faux, fake controversy. It becomes one of these conspiracy theories,” Jones told me by phone Tuesday evening. “They love whodunnit ‘Clue’ games, so everyone can now debate it. It’s not an issue—and the police officer is dead.”
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All of this is a bit too much for Jones. “I have shot wild hogs with AK-47s in Texas,” he told me. “Sometimes you shoot one in the head and the bullet goes right through and there’s no blood. Sometimes you shoot one in the head and it blows up like a pumpkin.”
The video of the officer, Jones said, raised eyebrows because, “you don’t see his head exploding like a pumpkin.” But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t really shot, Jones added.
“Most of the time, somebody gets shot in the head with a high-caliber rifle and there is a lot of blood. But sometimes there’s not.”
As usual...
Alex is a voice of reason...
And if this was staged as a "false flag" (still an agent provocateur actually, idiots, not false flag since they have none), you don't think a gov't would make it rather bloody or show a vastly inflated atrocity? Like why not have footage of the entire massacre that occurred?
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