11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[CountDeMoney]

Hamsausageandbacon, sister.

I'm not your sister, cracker jack.

You sure as fuck aren't my brother, Mary.

[garbon]

Good. No prohibition on me fucking the shit out of you then.

[CountDeMoney]

Save it for prisoner's night out with the ladies, Shawshank.

[garbon]

Save it for prisoner's night out with the ladies, Shawshank.

I think Mack Folsom Prison closed a few years ago.

[jimmy olsen]

This thread got a little weird.

[Queequeg]

This thread got a little weird.

The Languish story. 

[jimmy olsen]

Looks like these folks might want to invest in some security

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-02-14/manga-version-of-koran-to-be-published-in-japan/.84441

Manga Version of Koran to Be Published in Japan
posted on 2015-02-14 00:00 EST

Manga de Dokuha series released Old, New Testament in 2010

Team Banmikasu's manga adaptation of the Koran, Manga de Dokuha: Koran (Reading Through with Manga: The Koran), will ship in Japan on Sunday. The adaptation of the Islamic religious text will be the latest installment in Japanese publisher East Press' Manga de Dokuha series of classic literature.

East Press describes the book on its website:

    The Koran is the foundation of the daily life and ideology of people who believe in the teachings of Islam. The name Islam is often heard in the daily news, but because we Japanese aren't usually familiar with it, a perverted image [of Islam] as abstemious or linked to terrorism is liable to persist. So what kind of teachings do [Muslims] actually believe in? What are they thinking about? To understand the modern international community and Islam, let's try to experience the scriptures where all that is written down.

The Manga de Dokuha series launched in 2007 and includes 133 famous works by Japanese and international authors. Popular books in the series include the manga version of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf and an adaptation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital treatise. The series released manga of the Old Testament and New Testament, the two sections of the Christian Bible, in 2010.

The East Press series' debut title was Osamu Dezai's No Longer Human novel that JManga, a platform for reading legal manga online, added in 2011. JManga also added Variety Art Works' version of the Manga de Dokuha series' The Word of Buddha in 2012. North American publisher One Peace Books released the series' versions of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, James Joyce's Ulysses, and H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds novels in 2012.

The Bible has previously received several manga adaptations, including Tyndale House Publishers' Manga Bible in 2007.

[Valmy]

Well hopefully not, that would rather undermine Manga's goal to stop the Japanese from associating Islam with Terrorism.

But I don't think the Japanese really register to Jihadists.

[mongers]

Well hopefully not, that would rather undermine Manga's goal to stop the Japanese from associating Islam with Terrorism.

But I don't think the Japanese really register to Jihadists.

Save for the two they murdered in cold blood within the last few weeks.

[Valmy]

Well hopefully not, that would rather undermine Manga's goal to stop the Japanese from associating Islam with Terrorism.

But I don't think the Japanese really register to Jihadists.

Save for the two they murdered in cold blood within the last few weeks.

I think there were circumstances around that...but point taken.

[viper37]

Do you genuinely believe that there are no moderate muslims, Grallon?

Do you really want an answer Jake?

I'll say the devout Muslim cannot be moderate as he believes in absolutes; between him and the terrorist there's a difference in degree only.  He may not strap himself with explosives, they're humans after all, but quietly applauds when someone else does and infidels die.

However I'm quite aware there are plenty of people, raised within Islam, that don't give much of a fuck about the preachings of the imams...  Like I said I know and work with several such, who are actually just as horrified by the extremes their 'brethren' will go to in their quest for purity as we are.

The problem lies in that they always have their death cult absolutism to fall back on, should they ever become dissatisfied with anything they disapprove of, become frustrated with or wish to reject the responsibility of their own flaws on...

Thus a Muslim, born and bred, or converted, is always suspicious; because you cannot help but wonder when will the next ticking bomb go off, and if it'll be you that's on the death toll when it happens!



G.

and you think that is exclusive to muslims?  I could make the exact same comparison with the left.  Lots of people approve of violent actions in the name of anti-capitalism, lots of people find excuses for these people, even the tribunals refuse to take seriously the threat that represent radical socialism on our society.

I'd say the difference between the people throwing bricks in windows and thrashing everything on their way is minial compared to those who stay silent, or even nurture these radical feelings, as the PQ did.

[Josquius]

Well hopefully not, that would rather undermine Manga's goal to stop the Japanese from associating Islam with Terrorism.

But I don't think the Japanese really register to Jihadists.

Save for the two they murdered in cold blood within the last few weeks.

Well. One of them.
The other was regarded as a trouble making idiot who is responsible for the other one getting killed.


But yeah. It's mutual too. In japan there's really not all that much awareness of Islam at all.

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.firstpost.com/world/bangladeshs-charliehebdo-moment-writer-avjit-roy-murdered-with-machetes-for-being-un-islamic-2125191.html

Bangladesh's #CharlieHebdo moment: Writer Avjit Roy murdered with machetes for being 'un-Islamic'
Feb 27, 2015 13:22 IST


Dhaka: A prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin was hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka on Thursday, police said, with the atheist writer's family claiming he had received numerous threats from Islamists.

The body of Avijit Roy, founder of Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site which champions liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation, was found covered in blood after the attack which also left his wife critically wounded.

"He died as he was brought to the hospital. His wife was also seriously wounded. She has lost a finger," local police chief Sirajul Islam said.

The couple were on a bicycle rickshaw, returning from a bookfair, when two assailants stopped and dragged them onto a sidewalk before striking them with machetes, local media reported citing witnesses.

Roy, said to be around 40, is the second Bangladeshi blogger to have been murdered in two years and the fourth writer to have been attacked since 2004.
The body of Avijit Roy lies in a morgue. AFP.

The body of Avijit Roy lies in a morgue. AFP.

Hardline Islamist groups have long demanded the public execution of atheist bloggers and sought new laws to combat writing critical of Islam.

"Roy suffered fatal wounds in the head and died from bleeding... after being brought to the hospital," doctor Sohel Ahmed told reporters.

Police have launched a probe and recovered the machetes used in the attack but could not confirm whether Islamists were behind the incident.

But Roy's father said the writer, a US citizen, had received a number of "threatening" emails and messages on social media from hardliners unhappy with his writing.

"He was a secular humanist and has written about ten books" including his most famous "Biswasher Virus" (Virus of Faith), his father Ajoy Roy told AFP.

'Easiest target'

The Center for Inquiry, a US-based charity promoting free thought, said it was "shocked and heartbroken" by the brutal murder of Roy.

"Dr. Roy was a true ally, a courageous and eloquent defender of reason, science, and free expression, in a country where those values have been under heavy attack," it said in a statement.

Roy's killing also triggered strong condemnation from his fellow writers and publishers, who lamented the growing religious conservatism and intolerance in Bangladesh.

"The attack on Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed is outrageous. We strongly protest this attack and are deeply concerned about the safety of writers," Imran H. Sarker, head of an association for bloggers in Bangladesh, told AFP.

Pinaki Bhattacharya, a fellow blogger and friend of Roy, claimed one of the country's largest online book retailers was being openly threatened for selling Roy's books.

"In Bangladesh the easiest target is an atheist. An atheist can be attacked and murdered," he wrote on Facebook.

Atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 by members of a little known Islamist militant group, triggering nationwide protests by tens of thousands of secular activists.

After Haider's death, Bangladesh's hardline Islamist groups started to protest against other campaigning bloggers, calling a series of nationwide strikes to demand their execution, accusing them of blasphemy.

The secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reacted by arresting some atheist bloggers.

The government also blocked about a dozen websites and blogs to stem the furore over blasphemy, as well as stepping up security for the bloggers.

Bangladesh is the world's fourth-largest Muslim majority nation with Muslims making up some 90 per cent of the country's 160 million people.

A tribunal has recently handed down a series of verdicts against leading Islamists and others for crimes committed during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

AFP

[Syt]

"Hooray freedom of speech!"
"Satire is allowed everything - Kurt Tucholsky"

"President Gauck - why did he jack off into Merkel's hand bag?"

[Grallon]

lots of people find excuses for these people, even the tribunals refuse to take seriously the threat that represent radical socialism on our society.

I'd say the difference between the people throwing bricks in windows and thrashing everything on their way is minial compared to those who stay silent, or even nurture these radical feelings, as the PQ did.

You are confusing things and are seriously delusional if you equate PQ radicals - whatever that is - and Muslim scums who can turn murderous at the drop of a hat since their death cult allows/applauds it.



G.