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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

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For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Young Brits Squeezed Out of Jobs by Migrants as One Million Left Idle While Non-EU Workers Soar by 3... Tue Aug 26, 2025 15:21 | Will Jones
Nearly one million young Brits have been?left idle?while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315% as employers take advantage of lax border controls rather than training up young Brits, a new study has found.
The post Young Brits Squeezed Out of Jobs by Migrants as One Million Left Idle While Non-EU Workers Soar by 315% appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link France ?Could Trigger Next Financial Crash? as Government Set to Fall Amid Bankruptcy Worries Tue Aug 26, 2025 13:30 | Will Jones
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offsite link UK ?Faces Social Unrest? if Labour Pushes Ahead with Islamophobia Definition Tue Aug 26, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
Britain will face social unrest and reinforced perceptions of a two-tier society if the Government pushes ahead with plans for a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of a new campaign group has warned.
The post UK “Faces Social Unrest” if Labour Pushes Ahead with Islamophobia Definition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Does the Alaska Summit Signal a New Detente Between Russia and the US, With Huge Implications For Gl... Tue Aug 26, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
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French Muslims want Voltaire Play Cancelled

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday March 08, 2006 22:44author by redjade Report this post to the editors

oooohhh here we go again.... and again

'When Voltaire wrote the play in 1741, Roman Catholic clergymen denounced it as a thinly veiled anti-Christian tract. Their protests forced the cancellation of a staging in Paris after three performances'
how many will die because this image that i made?
how many will die because this image that i made?

Muslims ask French to cancel 1741 play by Voltaire
The Wall Street Journal/March 6, 2006

Late last year, as an international crisis was brewing over Danish cartoons of Muhammad, Muslims raised a furor in this little alpine town over a much older provocateur: Voltaire, the French champion of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

A municipal cultural center here on France's border with Switzerland organized a reading of a 265-year-old play by Voltaire, whose writings helped lay the foundations of modern Europe's commitment to secularism. The play, ''Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet,'' uses the founder of Islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.

The production quickly stirred up passions that echoed the cartoon uproar. ''This play ... constitutes an insult to the entire Muslim community,'' said a letter to the mayor of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, signed by Said Akhrouf, a French-born cafe owner of Moroccan descent and three other Islamic activists representing Muslim associations. They demanded the performance be cancelled.

Instead, Mayor Hubert Bertrand called in police reinforcements to protect the theater. On the night of the December reading, a small riot broke out involving several dozen people and youths who set fire to a car and garbage cans. It was ''the most excitement we've ever had down here,'' says the socialist mayor.

[....]

For Voltaire's Muslim critics, the play reveals a centuries-old Western distortion of Islam. For his fans, it represents a manifesto for liberty and reason and should be read not so much as an attack on Islam but as a coded assault on the religious dogmas that have stained European history with bloody conflict.

When Voltaire wrote the play in 1741, Roman Catholic clergymen denounced it as a thinly veiled anti-Christian tract. Their protests forced the cancellation of a staging in Paris after three performances - and hardened Voltaire's distaste for religion. Asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan, he quipped: ''This is not the time to be making enemies.''

[....]

Shortly afterward, he attended Friday prayers at a big mosque in Geneva and talked about his concerns with Hafid Ouardiri, a mosque official and veveran of the earlier anti-Voltaire campaign. They drafted a letter to the mayor demanding the play be cancelled ''in order to preserve peace.''

Mr. Ouardiri, an Algerian-born former leftist radical, came to France in the 1960s and says he used to chant the 1968 student slogan, ''It is forbidden to forbid.'' Now a devout Muslim, he says he champions ''the need to forbid.'' Algeria and other Muslim countries, he says, were colonized by Europeans ''nourished by Voltaire.''

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   amazing - not!     pat c    Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:18 
   Juan Cole debunks idea that Islam is Anti-Christian/Anti-Jew     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 15:54 
   Salafism     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 21:12 
   Caliphate     Islam Uber Alles    Thu Mar 09, 2006 23:38 
   Koran non-entries     Dublinfidel    Fri Mar 10, 2006 00:30 
   Dublinfidel     redjade    Fri Mar 10, 2006 01:22 
   Average is a Relative Term     Arthur    Fri Mar 10, 2006 03:38 
   Allah, Golf Carts & the Weaker Sects     redjade    Fri Mar 10, 2006 22:34 
   Dublin infidel is right but wrong     Seán Ryan    Fri Mar 10, 2006 23:32 
 10   Religion of Peace (TM)     Mo    Sat Mar 11, 2006 00:20 
 11   Religion (TM)?     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 01:07 
 12   Apples and oranges     Dublinfidel    Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:10 
 13   what utter crap.     zero    Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:24 
 14   Origin of Zero     Ray McInerney    Sat Mar 11, 2006 14:01 
 15   From a scratch     Tony    Sat Mar 11, 2006 14:51 
 16   tony     pat c    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:13 
 17   & The Vikings discovered America, too     redjade    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:21 
 18   Given us zero     Dublinfidel    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:55 
 19   One for the road     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 16:51 
 20   An enemy of my enemy is my friend?     Mr. T.    Sat Mar 11, 2006 16:54 
 21   Enlightenment     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 19:33 
 22   Was not responding to you, Mr. Ryan     Mr. T.    Sat Mar 11, 2006 20:44 
 23   Why Not Privatise Religion?     redjade    Sat Mar 11, 2006 22:41 
 24   Correction     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 02:15 
 25   History- you read some funny books     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 02:20 
 26   Racism     Tony    Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:59 
 27   Islamists vs. Muslims...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 13:36 
 28   You're fudging     Tony    Sun Mar 12, 2006 15:27 
 29   This is challenging stuff for you, Tony but try to read and perhaps learn...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:31 
 30   Holy Jewhad     Dublinfidel    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:31 
 31   tony     pat c    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:51 
 32   Ignorance for Allah     ARTHUR    Sun Mar 12, 2006 18:55 
 33   ARTHUR - Chomsky agrees with me -     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 19:38 
 34   Mr. T - Dr Martin Luther King agrees with Arthur     Noel    Sun Mar 12, 2006 19:46 
 35   nonsense...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 20:05 
 36   It's obvious and obscene     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 23:32 
 37   Argue with the hand...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 13, 2006 00:16 
 38   Radical Republicans Stand Up for Freedom of Speech     Gay Geori    Mon Mar 13, 2006 00:43 
 39   blanket link:     dunk    Mon Mar 13, 2006 03:18 
 40   Persistent little bugger     Tony    Mon Mar 13, 2006 15:34 
 41   tony     pat c    Mon Mar 13, 2006 15:38 
 42   I oppose Bush & Blair's war...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 13, 2006 16:46 
 43   Mr T - apologist for Islamophobia     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:52 
 44   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:05 
 45   Tony the troll...     Mr. T.    Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:07 
 46   Game set and match     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:04 
 47   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:19 
 48   Unreserved apologies     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:55 
 49   breaking my promise but ...     Mr. T.    Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:35 
 50   Islam and gays     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:05 
 51   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:13 
 52   Pat C     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:24 
 53   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:28 
 54   Women in Iran     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 06:05 
 55   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:23 
 56   Gotcha - Mr T shit-stormtrooper     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 13:28 
 57   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 13:51 
 58   Pat C - so how ya goin' ta stop 'em     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 14:26 
 59   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 14:37 
 60   Breaking my promise again but...     Mr. T.    Wed Mar 15, 2006 23:06 
 61   My last words     Tony    Thu Mar 16, 2006 13:34 
 62   Tony     pat c    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:00 
 63   Turkey suggests EU should strengthen anti-defamation law     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:27 
 64   re: Turkey - funferal.org says...     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:31 
 65   So show us the evidence     Tony    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:43 
 66   Tony     pat c    Thu Mar 16, 2006 16:03 
 67   Shattered promises...     Mr. T.    Thu Mar 16, 2006 21:04 
 68   Dutch Gov't Uses Porn to Scare Away Muslim Immigrants     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 23:07 
 69   redjade     pat c    Fri Mar 17, 2006 17:57 
 70   No, it's not Porn     Gay Geori    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:24 
 71   i was being a bit tongue in cheek     redjade    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:25 
 72   redjade     pat c    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:28 
 73   being muslim doesn't mean you're anti-gay     redjade    Fri Mar 17, 2006 20:58 
 74   redjade     pat c    Sat Mar 18, 2006 19:27 
 75   Michael McDowell can unify the world     redjade    Sat Mar 18, 2006 23:41 
 76   Islam and gays     tony    Sun Mar 19, 2006 14:21 
 77   redjade     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 15:49 
 78   Tony     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 15:56 
 79   Gays and Islam     Tony    Sun Mar 19, 2006 16:08 
 80   tony     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 16:12 
 81   How dare you presume I am heterosexual?     Tony    Mon Mar 20, 2006 06:54 
 82   Juan Cole, whoever he is, can go fuck himself...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 15:05 
 83   Juan Cole link: updated     redjade    Mon Mar 20, 2006 16:37 
 84   Ok, Juan Cole, who is excellent because he knows his shit, can go fuck himself...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:23 
 85   Link to the Sharia Law death decree against homosexuality...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:33 
 86   tony     pat c    Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:18 
 87   the compassion of islam     pat c    Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:40 
 88   German opera house cancels provocative Mohammed play     redjade    Mon Sep 25, 2006 23:04 
 89   Phuque'em     Intolerant B=stards    Tue Sep 26, 2006 06:34 
 90   The mote in God's eye     Tony    Tue Sep 26, 2006 08:04 


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