Charlie Hebdo

[Grannie64]

the 'religion of peace'..
my arse

Beginning to think Adolf had the right idea - he just picked the wrong religion to try and eradicate.[/quote]

Personally can not agree with that point of view. The Nazis were a chapter in the centuries of persecution of Judaism,most instigated by the Christians in response to the death of a Jew who became the Messiah.

[PonyFiddlerReturns]

the 'religion of peace'..
my arse

It's a peaceful religion in my experience. What we have here is a couple of sick nutters using it as a vehicle for their anger, twisting the passages of the koran to self justify their abhorrent actions.[/quote]Having engaged (pun intended) with REAL Muslims in Iraq I can say without hesitation that they are NOT that peaceful, not when the apparent 'average' Iraqi owns an AK47 etc.

However, I would agree that the work of these vermin in Paris etc doesn't really have anything to do with Islam in the true sense. The perpetrators be they Al Shababb, ISIS, ISIL, Al Quieda or whatever, are simply violent nut jobs, no more no less. This is a very very nasty problem which isn't going to go away, the sooner our pathetic yellow government realises this the better because right now you I and our families are, in the eyes of these sub human c*nts, le

[kernow]

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly 2015 has started with atrocities and tragedies, deliberately and significantly timed for maximum shock and depression. At a time when folk are at their lowest with the short mid-winter days and miserable weather, immediately following Christmas and the New Year holidays and celebrations, traditionally a time of joy, of peace and good will.

This was not just another appalling act of random terrorism, designed to produce maximum mayhem, death and destruction. This was also a planned and organised series of targetted political assassinations. An attack on tolerance, on freedom of thought and expression. An attack on creativity, humour and satire, on irreverence, atheism, humanism and secularism. This was a challenge to all the rights and priveleges that we enjoy and have, maybe, come to take for granted. This was an attack on the principles of the French Republic that we all share, on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

The western democracies are at