Tony Abbott: top 10 bloopers of his prime ministership – video

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“Masks Of Antiquity” by Caleb...

“Masks Of Antiquity” by Caleb Hamm

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AUSTRALIA POLITICS: #FDOTM chronicles our coup-prone PM slot:...

AUSTRALIA POLITICS: #FDOTM chronicles our coup-prone PM slot: “The age of Turnbull had dawned” http://buff.ly/1OuKrub http://on.fb.me/1KlWIeg

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#PNG people in VIC: “Seats are filling for this great...

#PNG people in VIC: “Seats are filling for this great event. Don’t miss the prestigious Burnet Oration to be delivered by The Lancet’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr Richard Horton.”

Register today: buff.ly/1W1f7p5 http://on.fb.me/1KezF63

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Foreign Correspondent tonight - #PNG http://on.fb.me/1Y6BhIj

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This Moving Company Helps Women Leave Abusive Homes At No Cost

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Australian police deal with a domestic violence matter every two minutes

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Domestic violence: Queensland Premier announces changes after horrific week

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Transfield profits drop as shareholders sell over asylum abuse on Nauru, Manus

Transfield profits drop as shareholders sell over asylum abuse on Nauru, Manus: #AsylumSeekers...
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#png2015 #PacificGames #OpeningCeremony

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Some #PNG2015, #PacificGames, opening ceremony pics.

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#PNG PEOPLE: "Together We Can" Yu stap laif bilong mi, ples stret bilong mi, long bel bilong mi.

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#AUSTRALIA POLITICS: #UN finds Oz guilty of 143 violations wrt indefinite detention of #AsylumSeekers.

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USA #TEXAS #LGBT MARRIAGE: a note from the Texas governor instructs state employees to continue discriminating, because SCOTUS? Pffft: that don' mean sheeit. It's all about cis privilege: people do NOT understand how deeply freaky life would be for them if EVERY "sincerely held religious belief" had to be honoured. They mean the common values held by "Conservative, Political-Evangelical Blond-Haired-Blue-Eyed-Jesus Christianity". Even the *regular* "sincerely held religious beliefs" have had their moments (in not-100-years-ago news: segregation, old white guy in Missouri groping a black waitress, bi-racial marriages criminalised/denied). Who gets to decide what is a "sincerely held religious belief" and what is a crackpot idea that should never be voiced or respected? Because you KNOW it'll be a bunch of rich white guys going, "oh, no, you misunderstood: it's OUR 'sincerely held religious beliefs' that are being threatened, yours don't count."

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#PNG PEOPLE: crowd-sourcing employment. Are there any opportunities in your sphere of influence at the moment, for NGO/expat jobs? Admin, Doc Control, records management, helpdesk...

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PNG #MoneyLaundering #CORRUPTION PROBE: PM O'Neill trumpets his intention to investigate lawyers/money as per the SBS exposure of same. Déjà vu, anyone? QUOTE: Papua New Guinea's former attorney-general says he has no confidence in a probe announced by Prime Minister Peter O'Neill into allegations of high-level money laundering. [...] Kerenga Kua, who was sacked by Mr O'Neill last year, says PNG and Australia already have relevant agencies to investigate the allegations. Mr Kua identifies five agencies which can and should probe the allegations: PNG's Ombudsman Commission can investigate alleged breaches of leadership code by politicians; alleged criminal acts can be investigated by the Taskforce Sweep Team, which has demonstrated capacity to deal with criminal issues, the PNG Law Society's disciplinary arm (PNG Lawyers Statutory Committee) should investigate any professional midconduct of lawyers, the conduct of of Australian lawyers needs to be referred through Australian regulatory authorities such as the Queensland Bar association and criminal matters in Australia can be referred to the Australian Federal Police. /QUOTE

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#FDOTM AUSTRALIA #AsylumSeekers: sexual abuse of children in camps? Meh. http://bit.ly/BasicallyEvil

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USA #CHARLESTON #RACISM #TERRORISM #DylannRoof: why some still resist calling out #WhiteTerrorists. Conor Friedersdorf [http://theatln.tc/1RBfwdK] of The Atlantic addresses "the wrongheaded reflex of some media outlets to label all violent Muslims 'terrorists' and all violent white men 'mental cases'." QUOTE: Years ago, after an attack on a Sikh temple that’s mostly forgotten because it wasn't regarded as terrorism, I argued [http://bit.ly/WhiteTerrorists] that the reluctance to apply the label to acts carried out by white people is partly due to an awareness of what might happen next. When terrorism is invoked, many Americans––Republicans especially––have assented to indefinite detention; the criminalization of gifts to certain charities; secret, extrajudicial assassinations; ethnicity-based surveillance; and the torture even of people who mightknow about a future attack. Having undermined so many civil-liberties protections in pursuit of terrorists, the white majority and Republicans especially are alarmed at the idea of the homeland-security bureaucracy treating them as they’ve treated Muslim Americans. /QUOTE http://theatln.tc/1djKo4H

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USA #LGBT #EQUALITY FTW http://bit.ly/1eO5l9J

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AUSTRALIA #AsylumSeekers #LosingOurHumanity: middle of the night, transfers of Asylum Seekers back to #Nauru... QUOTE: Three babies are among more than 40 asylum seekers transferred to Nauru early this morning from the Wickham Point detention centre near Darwin, an advocacy group says. [...] "Asylum seekers have been reporting since about 2:00am that men and women have been handcuffed and removed from the centre," he said. "We're very concerned that these people have been taken back to Nauru, INCLUDING SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE AT NAURU." /QUOTE My emphasis added. http://ab.co/1IzRrzd

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#PNG #MANUS #AsylumSeekers: "you're free to go"... But you can't leave the island. QUOTE: "...we [...] have a duty of care to ensure that refugees are adequately prepared to successfully and safely settle in Papua New Guinea." /QUOTE So where are the cultural acclimation workshops? Where are the gainfully employed Manus locals, explaining to the "freed" refugees that you must never step over food, or a baby; that women will not make extended eye contact with men; that it will be difficult for them to integrate if they find pigs abhorrent? If you want to make them ready, then start preparing them already!

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USA #GunControl #MassMurder #ThisAgain? To be clear: "the NRA" as an institution does not (publicly) blame the victims. One of their Board Member does, though. QUOTE: Board member Charles Cotton [...] posted a comment online [late on Thursday] blaming the pastor killed in the South Carolina shooting, Clementa Pinckney, for the death of his eight congregants. Cotton, who did not return a message left at his Houston-area law firm, pointed out on a Texas gun forum that Pinckney was a state senator who had voted against a law allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons without permits. “Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead,” Cotton wrote. “Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.” “Individual board members do not speak for the NRA,” [official NRA spokesperson] Baker said. The remark has since been deleted. /QUOTE

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USA #RACISM in #POLICING? To be slightly fair, the guys arresting the white kid were aware there would be cameras present. But the point stands.

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AUSTRALIA #AsylumSeekers #FOI #FASTTRACK: asylum seekers given 30 days to lodge their applications under the new agreement to fast-track claims, given estimate of 60 days to process any application for FOI documentation. Applying *without* access to your FOI documents means having to remember everything you said or did some years ago. See what happens when we let the asshats win?!

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Commentary on #JonStewart's commentary on the #Charleston shootings. Full Daily Show "bit": http://bit.ly/JSonSC

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AUSTRALIA #AsylumSeekers v. #ABORIGINAL, + HIDEBOUND BUREAUCRATS: oh, no cause for alarm - just an Aboriginal man who went into Centrelink and ended up being held in an Immigration Detention Centre. For the second time.

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#freeWestPapua #INDONESIA: debuting the "at least we're honest" defence. Imagine Australia [arresting/beating/shooting/raping/torturing] members of groups that advocate moving our government from a Monarchy to a Republic [and any journalists covering that story]; imagine the PNG government [arresting/beating/shooting/raping/torturing] everyone calling for a separation of the Papuan half of the country [and any journalists covering that story]; imagine the UK [arresting/beating/shooting/raping/torturing] those who supported the campaign for an independent Scotland [and any journalists covering that story]; imagine the USA [arresting/beating/shooting/raping/torturing] everyone who supports the secession of Texas [and any journalists covering that story]. Now: consider the appalling human rights stories that have come out of North Korea, China, the old Soviet bloc, Uganda [arresting/beating/shooting/raping/torturing] their dissidents [and any journalists covering that story]. Now place Indonesia in the right category.

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#freeWestPapua - and STOP TORTURING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!!

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AUSTRALIA #HAZARA #AsylumSeekers : again with the Hazara #genocide - when does it end? How can we blame desperate people escaping this daily, constant, hypervigilance and death of family members and the ever-present threat of being killed just because of the way you look? And #Abbott says it's perfectly safe now, to send the Hazaras back home to Afghanistan/Pakistan, because "the region has stabilised" - NO, IT HAS NOT.

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UN finds Australia guilty of 143 violations of international law for indefinite detention of...

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Jamie-Lee "TOGETHER WE CAN" ft. Jagarizzar, Briena Micah, Tinzy Mau, Henry & Santanya Gewang

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Kua has no confidence in PNG PM's probe call

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gov.texas.gov

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#PNG PEOPLE: crowd-sourcing employment. Are there any opportunities in your sphere of influence at the moment, for NGO/expat jobs? Admin, Doc Control, records management, helpdesk...

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The Charleston Attack Was Terrorism, But What Does That Mean?

The Charleston Attack Was Terrorism, But What Does That Mean?: USA #CHARLESTON #RACISM #TERRORISM...
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PNG breaking international law by restricting refugees' movements: UNHCR

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Babies among asylum seekers transferred to Nauru: advocates

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NRA blames Charleston victims as the mass shooting reaction echoes Newtown

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Asylum Seekers Lose Freedom Of Information Rights | newmatilda.com

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Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Charleston shooting: 'This was a terrorist attack'

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Hillsong church drops controversial US preacher Mark Driscoll from conferences

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Brazil passes femicide law to curb domestic violence | Al Jazeera America

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Channel 4 News

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Taming one of world’s oldest diseases in fast-growing Papua New Guinea | Al Jazeera America

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"Who is going to tell the Republican governor and 2016 presidential candidate that the two ultrasound..."

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Rape Culture - Cover Your Eyes

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Welfare not an 'Ikea catalogue', Morrison warns young job-seekers

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"The idea that it’s “special treatment” to “not be shot by police for looking violent” is something..."

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My desperate journey with a human smuggler

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Nauru Worker Comments on Detention Centre

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Aerial shot of #Ukarumpa, #EHP, #PNG…...

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How Australia & the US gave away the people of West Papua

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Female Indonesian military applicants receive 'two-finger' virginity tests

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"GET ON THE FUCKING GROUND OR YOU’RE DEAD!"

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Let's compare the backgrounds of science writers for Fox and NPR

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5 things idiots believe about Muslims which just aren't true...

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USA #IN #LGBT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE: a financially ailing pizza place...

USA #IN #LGBT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE: a financially ailing pizza place has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the credulous, in support of their right to choose their customer base. [http://bit.ly/1Ivl0mG]

I will say, I don’t condone or endorse any of the vicious tirade of threats, hate mail & personal sledging of the owners. They are sincere in their beliefs, if slightly confused about the definition of “discrimination”, and I think we have to respect that. Mostly.

QUOTE:

Concerns about safety led the owners to temporarily shut the restaurant down, as conservatives rallied to their side, raising over $500,000 through a crowd-sourcing website.

[…]

"It is not a sin that we bring gays into our establishment, and to serve them” she said. “It is a sin, though, if we condone — if we cater their wedding. We feel we are participating. We’re putting a stamp of approval on their wedding, and we cannot do that.”

Pressed by Cavuto to explain how that is not discrimination, O’Connor said that it wasn’t “hateful.”

/QUOTE

Original story: http://bit.ly/1DuJkXY

QUOTE:

Despite not believing that the bill would lead to targeted discrimination against members of the LGBT community, O’Connor told the station that her establishment would use the bill to avoid having to cater events like gay or non-Christian weddings.

/QUOTE

"Discrimination" - I do no’ think it means wha’ you think it means. [h/t TPB]

QUOTE:

…[the owner] said everything came down to the issue of choice. “That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be heterosexual. They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something they choose?” he asked.

/QUOTE

I refer you, sir, to this inspired video: “When Did You Choose To Be Straight?” (http://bit.ly/1DuSYtC)

Snark Of The Day award goes to “Robert S., [who] pointed out the obvious on Yelp [http://bit.ly/1IviWLk, although it’s likely been deleted by now], writing that ‘in all my queer life, I’ve never known a gay to cater their wedding with pizza.’” http://on.fb.me/1DuSXWH

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Bear with me - this is long, but I’m concerned about how...

Bear with me - this is long, but I’m concerned about how easily misinformation becomes “truth”, especially to the conspiracy-minded who might Share this on.

Point: IIT’s FB page (http://bit.ly/IITfbIran) states that: “Islamic Republic of Iran has nothing to do with the Shi’ites who damage Islamic Unity”.

Now, that’s curious, because Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/IITwiki) says that, “89% of Iranians are Shi’a and 9% are Sunni”.

And Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/IITwiki-2) also says that, “Most Muslims in Turkey are Sunnis forming about 72%”

Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/ISIL-Wiki) also tells us that ISIL “joined other Sunni insurgent groups” in 2006.

So:

(1) IIT are a group based in Sunni-majority Turkey

(2) IIT write vehement articles claiming that the *real* Islamic Republic of Iran is in fact the Sunni minority, suggesting that the Shi’ite majority are the ones “damaging Islamic Unity”.

(3) ISIL are Sunni, but that doesn’t fit in to the narrative IIT *want* to be true, because that makes Sunnis look bad.

(4) Now (speculating), IIT can concoct a labyrinthine scheme:

* ISIL is not genuinely Islamic or even Sunni

* why, then, does everyone say they are?

* because the US, UK, “Europe”, Israel and some of the Arab states are only PRETENDING to fight ISIL - it’s really a shell game where they distract you with misdirection!

* so, my initial reaction of “Why the hell would Israel be interested in helping to prop up this Islamic Group…?”

* exactly: they’re not really Sunni. Or Islamic.

That’s a massive logical overreach.

Out of interest, the “some of the Arab states” opposing ISIL are (of Muslim populations):

* Bahrain, 67% Shi’a;

* Jordan, 95% Sunni;

* Morocco, majority Sunni;

* Qatar, 99% Sunni;

* Saudi Arabia, 97% Sunni;

* UAE, 85% Sunni. http://on.fb.me/1FtlewO

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Cuma

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AUSTRALIA QLD #MARIJUANA: hurry up… and wait? "We believe...

AUSTRALIA QLD #MARIJUANA: hurry up… and wait?

"We believe that medical marijuana does have an opportunity for clinical expertise, particularly in relation to cancer."

— Jo-Ann Miller, Queensland Police Minister, saying something.

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Nauru: Iranian refugee couple pelted with rocks by local men, sources say

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UN v. #ABBOTT: essentially - UN: you’re doing a bad...

UN v. #ABBOTT: essentially -

UN: you’re doing a bad job

TA: nuh-uuuhhh!

UN: look, we gave you plenty of time to get us a report of your own…

TA: shut UP!

UN: …but you didn’t, so we HAD to go on the evidence we had.

**crickets**

UN: do you unde…

TA: shut up, Shut! Up!, shut UP, shaddup, shaddup, SHADDUP! You’re not even my real dad.

UN: *sigh* OK, then.

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Indonesia criticised by UN over Papua torture

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Sanitary Pads 'A Fire Hazard': The Realities Of Life For Mothers And Children On Nauru |...

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edwardspoonhands:

sizvideos:

St. Pauli’s peeback walls

Video - Via Siz iOS app

Better Living through Chemistry.

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giraffepoliceforce:vnicent:otteroftheworld:My parents live in...

giraffepoliceforce:

vnicent:

otteroftheworld:

My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.

how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen

I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.

Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.

And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.

Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.

That’s brilliant.

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David Oyelowo: 'No one says to Oliver Stone: white characters AGAIN?'

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Jessica Silva avoids jail for manslaughter of abusive ex-partner

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Usai Dibubarkan Polisi: Seminar ULMWP Dilangsungkan di Asrama Rusunawa, 3 Orang Masih Ditahan

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AUSTRALIA - CENSURE MOTION: • silence re #freeWestPapua genocide...

AUSTRALIA - CENSURE MOTION:

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(* emails reproduced in full at the bottom of the article, http://bzfd.it/1B3RjIf)

QUOTE:

The internal staff email chain began with a Jan. 8 email from Al Jazeera English’s executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr, asking his reporters to interrogate whether the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper was “really an attack on free speech” and whether the slogan “Je Suis Charlie/I Am Charlie” is “alienating.”

Describing the incident as a “clash of extremist fringes,” Khadr was highly critical of the Charlie Hebdo staff:

"Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile. Baiting extremists isn’t bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response—however illegitimate—is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: it’s pointlessly all about you."

In response, U.S.-based correspondent Tom Ackerman quoted a Jan. 7 piece from Ross Douthat in the New York Times:

"If a large enough group of someone is willing to kill you for saying something, then it’s something that almost certainly needs to be said, because otherwise the violent have veto power over liberal civilization, and when that scenario obtains it isn’t really a liberal civilization any more…. liberalism doesn’t depend on everyone offending everyone else all the time, and it’s okay to prefer a society where offense for its own sake is limited rather than pervasive. But when offenses are policed by murder, that’s when we need more of them, not less, because the murderers cannot be allowed for a single moment to think that their strategy can succeed."

Doha-based reporter Mohamed Vall wrote that supporting Charlie Hebdo ran the risk of encouraging more killings:

"And I guess if you encourage people to go on insulting 1.5 billion people about their most sacred icons then you just want more killings because as I said in 1.5 billion there will remain some fools who don’t abide by the laws or know about free speech."d http://on.fb.me/1DMd7Hz

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