Get off your high horse, mcjules- people are very upset by this. Can't you make allowances for that? Wait until things settle down a bit before you start making your sanctimonious comments.

I have made allowances for it, haven't banned anyone just given a warning. Why are their sanctimonious comments acceptable but not others?

Everyone is very upset about this. If you want to post hurtful crap attacking people you disagree with do it elsewhere.

I'm sorry McJules what exactly do you have a problem with?

I agree.  Only approved SJW commentary allowed these days.

And Islam is the problem.  Even your most fundamental nut job Christian wouldnt blow themselves up.

Openly wishing people to suicide (you) or wishing people to die in terrorist attacks (Captain) are against forum rules. Common sense and credit to captain for editing his original post.

Nah, predictable. Manchester just got them at least another 5 million votes.

This thread is distinctly lacking in left wing SJW commentary and full of what I would call right wing SJW commentary.

Anyway you're all free to go off in your echo chamber (aka this thread), but if I see any threats of harm towards any innocent group of people then there will be bans.

How can it blamed on immigrants when no immigrant is involved?
Does this get suppressed to propagate the narrative?

You'll note that I did not say 'leftie' SJW commentary.  Again you are finding offense when none was proffered.

Right wingers care for social justice?
When did this happen?

But terrorist apologists are ok? Gotcha. I'll keep that in mind when the next lot of kids are killed and I'll ask you for permission.

Top mod/10

Exactly where do you think all these radical ideas are brought to England from?  

I haven't mentioned the attacks in Philipines and Thailand either.

Scotland? Ireland? Wales?
FMD

By your definition of what a terrorist apologist is? Yes they are ok. If someone was supporting the attack and threatening others (like ISIS do) they would be banned (and their details passed on to the terror hotline).

No offence here.

You're a big boy. I'll let you figure that one out.

Ireland def

Southern Ireland for sho.

at least you're getting closer to where the terrorist was born......

I'm trying....so hard....to think....where hmmmmmm

Cornwall ?

rofl maybe we should try where he travelled and learnt his final trade.

Shift the goalposts to propagate the narrative.....

Manchester bomb should've been exploded on ABC’s Q&A, Quadrant's Roger Franklin says

The online editor of conservative publication Quadrant has said it would have been preferable for the Manchester bomb to be exploded in the ABC’s Q&A studios on Monday night, blowing up host Tony Jones and the panellists.

“This morning, mere hours after Jones’ guests pocketed their ABC taxi vouchers and repaired to hotel rooms paid for with taxpayer dollars processed through the Sydney writers’ festival, mere children were torn to pieces on the other side of the world,” Roger Franklin wrote in a piece published online on Monday.

“Life isn’t fair and death less so. If there had been a shred of justice that blast would have detonated in an Ultimo TV studio. Unlike those young girls in Manchester, their lives snuffed out before they could begin, none of the panel’s likely casualties would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty.”

The ABC has called the article “a new low in Australian public debate” and demanded an apology and the removal of the article from the Quadrant website. In a strongly worded letter to the editor of Quadrant, the ABC managing director, Michelle Guthrie, said ABC staff had to be reassured of their safety and safety experts had to be called in to assess if there had been any damage to security from the inflammatory words.

Guthrie’s statement said:

Quadrant promotes itself as “the leading general intellectual journal of ideas”. Those words ring hollow in the wake of last night’s vicious and offensive attack on the ABC, its staff and its program guests. 

To take issue with our programming and our content is one thing. But to express the wish that, if there were any justice, the horrific terrorist bombing in Manchester would have taken place in the ABC’s Ultimo studio and killed those assembled there is a new low in Australian public debate. 

Your subsequent attempt to make amends by changing some of the wording (without acknowledging or apologising for the original article) has done little to undo the damage. The article continues to state that if a blast occurred in one of our studios, none of the likely casualties “would have represented the slightest reduction in humanity’s intelligence, decency, empathy or honesty”.

Like many others, I am appalled at your willingness to turn an act of terrorism in the United Kingdom into a means of making a political point against those you disagree with. 

One of the immediate results of this behaviour is that while our staff both here and in Manchester were working long hours to provide extensive coverage of this unfolding tragedy, we were also forced to reassure worried staff who had read your article and call in our own security experts to assess any possible impact flowing from your inflammatory words. 

I ask that this response be posted prominently on the Quadrant website, and I also ask that the article, which continues to contain entirely inappropriate comments about possible bombings at the ABC, be removed and apologised for. 

In his piece, Franklin attacked Q&A panellist Lawrence Krauss as a “filthy liar” for his characterisation of the threat of Islam, and then imagined him being blown up by the terrorist bomb.

“Mind you, as Krauss felt his body being penetrated by the Prophet’s shrapnel of nuts, bolts and nails, those goitered eyes might in their last glimmering have caught a glimpse of vindication.”

Franklin has been approached for comment.

The Australian’s associate editor, Chris Kenny, joined the debate about the article on Twitter, saying while the general argument was a worthwhile point of view, the line about the ABC was appalling.

The communications minister, Mitch Fifield, appearing before an upper house hearing in Canberra on Wednesday, agreed with Guthrie.

“I think this constitutes a new low in Australian public debate and the comments are sick and unhinged,” he said.

In the hours after the tragedy in Manchester, Franklin’s opinion piece which attacked Q&A as an unbalanced program said that every panellist was a “smug simper straight from the green-left luvviedom”.

After criticism of the piece on Twitter one sentence was amended without an editor’s note. The article remains online.

The ABC’s national security manager, Jason Alcorn, has written to staff about the Quadrant article and assured them that “proactive steps have been taken to ensure the safety and welfare of all staff and users of ABC Ultimo”.

“While consideration is given to minimise inconvenience please appreciate that intermittent increased security presence and more rigorous security screening is to ensure staff safety and wellbeing,” Alcorn said.

“The safety and security of all ABC staff is a shared responsibility, be alert and not alarmed and if you see something unusual or suspicious, use your judgment and report [it].”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/24/manchester-bomb-shouldve-been-exploded-on-abcs-qa-quadrant-writer-says?CMP=soc_567

He's got a point - QANDA is just a bunch of leftie circle jerking and I'm not even a right-winger. 

Nah.  That's pretty rank.  Can't imagine the hoo haa if some clown on the left wrote that.

All of that radical extremist bullshit stems from the 2 biggest Islamic shithole areas on earth.  Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Middle East.  And where are most of the migrants living in England that are propagating their garbage from?  Hint: Not Malaysia.

The Middle East is a fucking cesspit.  Watching Trump suck up to the Saudis was sickening.  

Lol what do you expect when you invited the 3rd world to live in your country with an abhorrent and disgusting ideology. Condolences to the family, but Europe is reaping what it sows. 

You're not giving Western culture enough time to adapt to their way of living and the vibrancy that it brings to stale, white, Christian countries. You need to learn that diversity is our strength and it's racist to question how or ask for any examples of where appeasement of sharia has succeeded.