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Post by kj on Jan 3, 2018 23:40:05 GMT
I'll be mildly curious to see how the media respond to today's murder. Will they keep shtum on orders from on high, or will have Fintan et al warning about "hysterical over-reaction"?
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Post by Séamus on Jan 4, 2018 10:57:09 GMT
I'll be mildly curious to see how the media respond to today's murder. Will they keep shtum on orders from on high, or will have Fintan et al warning about "hysterical over-reaction"? Media, so far, hasn't been afraid to suggest the 'terrorism-word'... As well as the obvious difficulty in definition, it will be a dilemma between terrorism 'selling' as a news story but multiculturalism being the flavour of the columnists. |
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Post by servantofthechief on Jan 4, 2018 18:09:26 GMT
Funny, news reports up North here have mentioned that the Garda were not 'ruling out' terorism as a motivation, but had not claimed they believed it was such. Nonetheless, I have family who work in Dundalk and others who frequent it. I am not happy about this.
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Post by cato on Jan 4, 2018 22:38:21 GMT
When it comes to any story with an Islamic angle in Ireland it is frustrating that media self censorship makes it difficult to make sense of what is actually going on.
I do feel sorrow for the family of the Japanese man killed it seems for being in the wrong place , going to his work in a land far from home. Had this scene- an Egyptian (who no one knows how he entered the state) stabbed a Japanese man to death and then stabbed 2 Irish men in a border Irish town been described as a possibility even 10 years ago it would denounced as an outrageous racist scaremongering fantasy.
I suspect from the way unarmed Gardai arrested this man that mental illness will play a prominent role in why this attack occured. This doesn't absolve the state from the fact that there are people in this state illegally and some of whom are potentially a serious terrorist threat. I use the term potentially because we don't know how many foreign nationals live here nor their backgrounds.
I have serious doubts about our ability to cope with a real serious Islamic attack despite the confident claims of politicians. These politicians assured us few if any people would come to wet cold dreary Ireland once border restrictions were eased in Europe. Over 17% of our population is now foreign born and the majority have arrived in under a generation unlike other European nations.No Irish politician ever said this was going to happen.In fact they denied it would happen.
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