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Brickbat: Je Suis Charlie?

Charles Oliver | 1.13.2015 6:00 AM

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Swedish Parliament member Veronica Palm reported fellow member Bjorn Soder to the police for racial agitation. Soder posted on Facebook "the religion of peace shows its face" after Islamic terrorists killed 12 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo.

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  1. Libertarian   10 years ago

    Race and religion are not the same thing!!!!

    /Sammy Davis, Jr

    1. Live Free Or Diet   10 years ago

      There ya go. Since when is Islam a race?

  2. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

    Our senators don’t look like that.

    1. Drake   10 years ago

      But they are just as stupid.

      1. Spencer   10 years ago

        yeah, but it’d be easier to stomach coming from that. at least you could mute the TV and pretend.

  3. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

    So that’s what happened to at least one of Rosy Palm’s five daughters

    1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

      Crass.

      1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt   10 years ago

        Class!

  4. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    I wish the palm I’d been having relations with all through HS was her.

    1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      Crass.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

        You foreigners must replace your l’s with r’s.

        1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

          Crass, class, they’re all the same thing to you Septics

          1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt   10 years ago

            Are you saying his humor is infectious?

            1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

              Down under, when they dig septic tanks, if they dig too deep they reach us.

  5. Suthenboy   10 years ago

    Meh. She is a hardcore SJW. No amount of physical attractiveness can make up for that.

    1. prolefeed   10 years ago

      She’s not even good looking. She looks like a frumpy bitch who doesn’t believe in free speech, and has the temerity to turn in others to the police for exercising it.

      1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

        There is a reason she looks like that.

        1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt   10 years ago

          She was the kid in grade school who was quickest to “I’m telling!” Bank on it.

          1. Illocust   10 years ago

            Okay, I know you were all rebels as children, but being a rules follower doesn’t automatically make you a statist. It’s just as likely to come at libertarianism from the point of view that statist refuse to follow their own damn rules.
            90 percent of what drove me to libertarianism is that the logic of the various statist rules contradict each other.

            1. Spencer   10 years ago

              Yes- she was the girl that reminded the teacher they forgot to give homework before winter break.

    2. Old Man With Candy   10 years ago

      I beg to disagree.

  6. An Innocent Man   10 years ago

    Did she report the missing alt-text?

  7. Adans smith   10 years ago

    Really? Se needs to read the history of Islam and the fraud who started it.

  8. Adans smith   10 years ago

    she

    1. Swiss Servator, Winter...jetzt   10 years ago

      I thought you were using a new PC word – she without the patriarchal “he” in it.

      1. Ted S.   10 years ago

        In Finnish, “se” is the word for inanimate objects; they only have one word “h?n” that covers both he and she. I’m told, however, that in colloquial Finnish, it’s not uncommon to use “se” in place of “h?n”.

        Finnish, not having gendered pronouns or grammatical gender, obviously had perfect gender equality.

      2. Adans smith   10 years ago

        Good idea Swiss,I’ll do that from now on and blame it on you!

  9. Suthenboy   10 years ago

    I am too impatient to wait for AM links…..

    http://www.theatlantic.com/ent…..ay/384414/

    I am sitting at my brother’s house and the sister-in-law has the TV on. Something catches my eye, an ad for ‘My husband’s not gay’.

    Some swishy guy then says, while his wife looks on approvingly, “Other than my deep and abiding love for Broadway show tunes. And my attraction to males?those are the two things that are kind of gay about me.”

    My brother and I both begin laughing hysterically.

    What the hell is that? Does it come on right after ‘Ow! My Balls!’? Is that what TV has become? Goddammit. Everytime I see the damn thing on it reminds me why I don’t watch it.

    1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      It’s sexual Paleo, apparently:

      “I love doughnuts,” Jeff explained. “I would eat doughnuts three times a day, but I desire to be able to fit in my pants in the morning, too.

      “So you could say I am oriented toward doughnuts, and if I was being true to myself, I would eat doughnuts a lot more than I eat doughnuts … [but] am I denying myself because I don’t eat doughnuts as much as I might like to eat doughnuts? I’m not. In fact, I desire to live a healthy lifestyle, so I don’t eat a lot of doughnuts.”

      1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

        It is incredible to me how people rationalize that the world is what they wish it was.

        Being gay is not the same as liking donuts. It is about who he fundamentally is as a person which is something neither he nor his wife wants to face.

        A deep and abiding love for Broadway show tunes for fuck’s sake.

        The guys are gay. I don’t know what it says about the wives who are attracted to them. I don’t think I want to know.

        1. AlmightyJB   10 years ago

          I like musicals. No homo. Dudes are gross.

          1. Ted S.   10 years ago

            Just because you’re gross doesn’t mean I’m gross.

            1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

              Of course it doesn’t mean that. You are still gross though.

        2. Illocust   10 years ago

          There are life long bachelors who never get in a relationship. There are people who die virgins. People grow old and unattractive. Not being in a relationship with someone you are attracted to is not the end of the world. I know its a nice excuse to win over the feels crowd, but the only reason being homosexual should be legal is because its none of our damn business who you sleep with.

  10. Rufus J. Firefly   10 years ago

    Relevant. I think. Regardless, always a good time for the Chef:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfsABOGw3c

  11. mr lizard   10 years ago

    Would Do

    That thin-lipped not-frown is about 2 millimeters short of an inviting look. Me thinks she might be more accommodating on other subjects

    /TIWTANLW

    1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

      You can have her.

      They’re all sisters in the dark. And the price for doing her would be to listen to her idiotic SJW prattle all night until you bedded her. And more of the same in the morning. And, if you didn’t call her, then you’ve got all the crap in the world that she’d be laying at your doorstep.

      1. BardMetal   10 years ago

        Not to mention the rape accusations the morning after.

        1. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

          Yeah, that was what I was suggesting with the “all the crap in the world” comment.

    2. Hillary's Clitdong   10 years ago

      Would Not Do

  12. Bill Dalasio   10 years ago

    Strictly, it isn’t clear to me that he said anything derogatory about Islam. Hell, he even called it “the religion of peace”. I’d find in his favor.

    1. invisible furry hand   10 years ago

      It’s certainly not as bad as his thoughts on Judaism:

      Bj?rn S?der previously came under fire from Sweden’s Jewish community in December when he told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that Jews could not be considered Swedish unless they abandoned their religious identity.

      1. BardMetal   10 years ago

        Sounds like he’s already reaching out to Sweden’s Muslim community.

  13. Rich   10 years ago

    While S?der’s initial comment read “the religion of peace shows its face”, Dagens Nyheter said he then edited the post to add a question mark at the end and later deleted it.

    What if *everyone* utilized the Judge’s rhetorical technique?

  14. BardMetal   10 years ago

    How come more Europeans don’t find thought crime creepy? Do they really believe that censorship is the only thing keeping them from becoming the 4th reich?

    1. Suthenboy   10 years ago

      I think it is part of what is making them the 4th reich.

    2. CatoTheElder   10 years ago

      ^ THIS.

      Unfortunately, Americans are right along with them.

      More accurately, though, it’s the Americans who have led in state censure of politically incorrect thought. When done effectively, the brainwashed do not know that they are brainwashed.

  15. Rebel Scum   10 years ago

    “It’s not legal to offend people based on their race, and I think this should be treated as racial agitation,” she told the paper.

    It’s a prog./sjw wet dream.

  16. Crusty Juggler   10 years ago

    She seems fun. I like her.

  17. Adans smith   10 years ago

    One thing the euro’s don’t get is when you ban words you give them power they would not have other wise. Making NAZI’s and these Islamic asses the butt of jokes takes away that power and fear. I say Hitler on Ice for everyone.

  18. Xajow   10 years ago

    Is it too late to point to this: http://www.thelocal.se/2015010…..-in-sweden

  19. mariuspacker   10 years ago

    I agree that Miguel `s st0rry is flabbergasting, last saturday I got a new Lotus Esprit from earning $8938 this past 4 weeks and would you believe, ten/k last-month . without a doubt it is the most comfortable work I’ve had . I began this 4 months ago and pretty much straight away was bringin in minimum $86… per-hr . Visit Website ~~~~~~~~ http://www.jobsfish.com

  20. jdgalt   10 years ago

    Sweden has already had a terror attack of their own. I wonder if their king called it “workplace violence” the way Obama did.

    Some people will keep their heads in the sand until they drown.

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