“I guess if you insult 1.5 billion people chances are one or two of them will kill you,” wrote Mohamed Vall Salem, who reported for Al Jazeera’s Arab-language channel before joining its English wing in 2006. “And I guess if you encourage people to go on insulting 1.5 billion people about their most sacred icons then you just want more killings because as I said in 1.5 billion there will remain some fools who don’t abide by the laws or know about free speech"I Am Not Charlie
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Words of Wisdom
Monday, 12 January 2015
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An 'expert' apologises
Steven Emerson on Birmingham row: 'I deserve what I got'
At least Steve Emerson who runs the Investigative Project on Terrorism didn't try and deflect the blame onto others. He might have to think about a new career though. Maybe not as here's another time he got it spectacularly wrong and then there is this
Black Cab - Live @John Curtin Hotel Melbourne (11/1/15)
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(An all covers set)
Tracklist:
The Living End (JAMC)
Frankie Teardrop (Suicide)
Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)
5-8-6 (New Order)
Ghost Rider (Suicide)
Robert Crumb on the Paris shootings
I showed it to her, and she said, “Oh, my God, we’re going to have to go into hiding.” [Laughs.] So, then Aline had this idea for another cartoon, which we also sent to Liberation, a collaboration, that’s showing her looking at the drawing saying, “Oh, my God, they’re going to come after us! This is terrible…I want to live to see my grandchildren!” And then she has me saying, “Well, it’s not that bad. And, besides, they’ve killed enough cartoonists, maybe they’ve gotten it out of their system.”
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