11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[Martinus]

How do our resident Muslim lovers feel today?



G.

Apparently, not phased in the least.

[Berkut]

We are only joking on real sports.

[crazy canuck]

False accusation by mongers.  15 yard penalty, replay the down.

Wrong sports reference in use. Yellow carded.

Both of you knock it off or you're going into the penalty box for five minute majors.

Bumphing. Catcher gets a penalty shot.

Meh - we follow the honour system.  If the curler did an illegal move he is expected to remove his own rock from play.

Get your rocks off 

[Zanza]

A well-known satirical magazine in Germany invited for a press conference today with this text: "Terror advice: At 4pm we will have a meeting with other newspapers, opportunity for you to kill everyone of the lying German press. There will be sandwiches afterwards."

They also put this old 2006 title on their website. It says "Religions compared" and the lower right corner says "Please ignite here".

[Martinus]

Ok, I want to make a commitment. I will read the whole Quran.

From what I understand you have to read it in Arabic. Translations aren't considered to really be the word or Allah.

I find that perspective rather humorous.  That is like saying one must read the New Testament in the original Greek, you know what Jesus spoke.

You really do need to read it in Greek to get the puns, like the one about being born again vs being born from above, which is only a joke in Greek, not Aramaic.

The old filioque pun gets lost so much in translation.

[Martinus]

Ok, I want to make a commitment. I will read the whole Quran.

Fuck no. Don't do that!!111

I cannot contemplate my suffering here in Languish if you happen to convert to Islam.
I would probably e-shoot myself.

Dude, I will never convert to Islam. I will sooner convert to Judaism - converting to Islam is the dumbest thing I can think of. You just need to know what you dislike, I think.

[Jacob]

Wow, a somewhat respected newspaper here just published this article on their website: "IS: Denmark will be next". It contains a series of tweets from people sympathising with IS saying that Denmark will also be attacked.

Oh my.

A somewhat respected newspaper? Which one?

[Barrister]

Wow, a somewhat respected newspaper here just published this article on their website: "IS: Denmark will be next". It contains a series of tweets from people sympathising with IS saying that Denmark will also be attacked.

Oh my.

A somewhat respected newspaper? Which one?

He lied - there are no respected newspapers in Denmark.

[Liep]

Wow, a somewhat respected newspaper here just published this article on their website: "IS: Denmark will be next". It contains a series of tweets from people sympathising with IS saying that Denmark will also be attacked.

Oh my.

A somewhat respected newspaper? Which one?

Berlingske, but this on their b.dk site which increasingly is descending into click bait.

[Liep]

Wow, a somewhat respected newspaper here just published this article on their website: "IS: Denmark will be next". It contains a series of tweets from people sympathising with IS saying that Denmark will also be attacked.

Oh my.

A somewhat respected newspaper? Which one?

He lied - there are no respected newspapers in Denmark.

Lies, there are at least 2. But true, the 5 big ones are pretty rubbish.

[Norgy]

Berlingske and Politiken are pretty good newspapers, according to what I have read. 

[mongers]

Who said this:

Garton-Ash: "Our seventh principle is that we respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief. Would you agree with that?"

.....  says that "almost all people who have religious belief are realist about their belief", which he explains means that people of faith see it as objective and that blasphemy is therefore seen as an objective harm which does more than just hurt feelings. He then gives the example of a demeaning depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, "The point is that for a Muslim, a depiction, particularly a comic or demeaning depiction, of the Prophet Mohammed might have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography.

"One of the mistakes secularists make is not to understand the character of what blasphemy feels like to someone who is a realist in their religious belief."

Hint, this person may or may not have been the most significant director general of the BBC during the last 10-15 years.

[Liep]

Berlingske and Politiken are pretty good newspapers, according to what I have read. 

It's their websites and insufferable editors that warrant the "somewhat". Although Politiken's editor sometimes says something clever.

[The Brain]

Who said this:

Garton-Ash: "Our seventh principle is that we respect the believer but not necessarily the content of the belief. Would you agree with that?"

.....  says that "almost all people who have religious belief are realist about their belief", which he explains means that people of faith see it as objective and that blasphemy is therefore seen as an objective harm which does more than just hurt feelings. He then gives the example of a demeaning depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, "The point is that for a Muslim, a depiction, particularly a comic or demeaning depiction, of the Prophet Mohammed might have the emotional force of a piece of grotesque child pornography.

"One of the mistakes secularists make is not to understand the character of what blasphemy feels like to someone who is a realist in their religious belief."

Hint, this person may or may not have been the most significant director general of the BBC during the last 10-15 years.

Hildegard of Bingen? Rudolf Hess?

[mongers]

@nedboulting
Cabu among the dead. His work often reflected his adoration of Paris.