u/catty

I'm about to write something that I, with no international politics nor trade education but plenty of opinions shaped by social media, thinks world leaders should take note of.

and reports at the time showed he had a phone book

~~honour~~ ego.

I live in a country where I've heard a 15-16yo Pakistani kid on a packed bus state he was going to kill his sister because he didn't like who she was dating - and that he had hit her before because of it. I don't think most people have any idea how normalised it is in their culture. The country is England.

Are you daring to suggest that posts on Lemmy by certain accounts are only to manipulate public opinion. No!!!1

• "Lemmy is too small, why would bots bother?" etc, etc.

Yep, unfortunately, media have the right to be afraid following the Charlie Hebdo nonsense, here are some examples of criticisng Islam:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie - Now Sir. a man who wrote some books Islamists didn't like. So they threatened to kill him. A fatwa. Multi-million pound bounty and a failed assassination attempt. All because of a book. All through the 80s he was in hiding, covered by the police, paid for by the tax payer. When he emerged from hiding like in the 90s or so, everything had died down and was cool, yes? Nope, he got attacked by a guy with a knife and he lost an eye in 2022 in NY. Read this, it states "a man has been charged", it (cowardly?) failed to mention that the 24 yo man was a Muslim with ties to Lebanon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie

• Charlie Hebdo - a French magazine was raided and people there were shot by two young Muslim men who killed 12 and injured 11. "It published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting. More Muslim-led violence continued after the Charlie Hebdo raid where jews were targeted and killed. Most of the muslims involved were unfortunately killed (so they think they go to a heaven, full of virgins or something... is that meant to be appealing to young men? - Islam knows how to market itself to an audience of rapist men)

• 2020, A French teacher beheaded for showing his students the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Yes, beheaded and disemboweled. Not by the French peasants for a revolution, but by a former 18yo Muslim student who was shown such pictures in a lesson on free speech. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211015-france-honours-quiet-hero-teacher-killed-for-showing-prophet-mohammed-cartoon - It was seen as "an attack on the core values drilled by teachers into generations of schoolchildren, including the separation of church and state and the right to blaspheme."

I think it's best you include "/s" in this one!

Yawn. Now talk about Sharia courts and Sharia law, where a woman can be sentenced to death for ~~being raped~~ cheating, ~~female genital mutilation is allowed~~ and generally, women ~~can be sentenced to death~~ given appropriate sentences and outside Muslim men ~~deny Sharia law to outsiders~~ keep the sacred secrets of Islam between themselves.

You can listen to podcasts of Muslim "elders" and they openly laugh and boast about how women "should not even be heard" when those elders live in non-Eastern countries. Yes, England, I'm looking at you.

Media needs to give a new term to the concept of Pakistani "honor". Governments are afraid to touch it (esp. the UK govt.) with regard to Pakistanis in particular and Islam. Probably for fear of being victims of 'honor' killings themselves given recent history.

Brace yourself, it's about to go down

damn sirens

in defence because they started it

...and then bomb it?

Don't worry! It's all being moved to starlink with different billing models!!!1

Because that would piss putin off and the UK always backtracks when that's possible, with ministers even publicly apologising to him on tv news.

^ice, ice, baby!^

next step is reports of a drone blowing the wrong target, it’ll be news when it “accidentally” targets civilians.

It probably won't make news.

Graffiti on glass shattered glass being smashed through with rocks read: “get out of Mexico.” Protesters held signs reading “gringos, stop stealing our home”

They should have thrown it back with the poor grammar corrected, and stating they can help the Mexican's learn English.

Iran should have a national twitter for these kinds of burns