General Chat

The power of social media can be applied for both 'good' & 'bad' intentions.

Should 'Private Eye' upgrade its security?

Definitely, Dermot - as should any company that these bone-headed immoral terrorists may consider an 'easy target' they can 'claim' they're attacking for 'moral' reasons.

I have been doing some research into the life of the prophet Muhammed (peace be upon Him) I was particularly interested to note that, according to the majority of traditional Hadith sources, he married his third wife Aisha bint Abi Bakr when she was six or seven years old. She stayed at the home of her parents until she was nine or ten years old, when the marriage was consummated. Hmmm...... Bob

Fairly common in Britain/Europe at the time, too, Bob.
From Wiki:

In the 12th century, Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in medieval Europe, accepted age of puberty for marriage to be between 12 and 14 but acknowledged consent to be meaningful if the children were older than 7. There were authorities that said that consent could take place earlier. Marriage would then be valid as long as neither of the two parties annulled the marital agreement before reaching puberty, or if they had already consummated the marriage. It should be noted that Judges honored marriages based on mutual consent at ages younger than 7, in spite of what Gratian had said; there are recorded marriages of 2 and 3 year olds

One million copies of Charlie Hebdo will be printed next week, and expected to sell out.

Hopefully it'll be widely available all over Europe.

I assume it's sold here, in the bigger newsagents Maggie?

...it's just finding one!!
Our local Sm*ths, has taken to hiding 'Fortean Times' behind the counter. Not because it's a 'dirty mag', but because so many are stolen :-|
So, middle aged woman queues up and asks for a mag from 'behind the counter'...............
I expect, if they stock Charlie Hebdo, they'll put that behind the counter too.

I'm in central London on Wednesday Maggie will have to look for it. As for you asking for something from behind the counter Tut tut :-D

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/charlie-hedbo-collusion-terror-jihadi-twisted-logic

Blimey!! Bob

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/01/10/17/46/australian-newspaper-publishes-image-of-mohammed

part of the editorial :

"Whether deliberate or not, one of the most damaging aspects of this atrocity, is that it hit our civilisation in a place already shaping as our Achilles Heel - a spineless and growing penchant for political correctness.

"Over recent years, in the face of the perpetually outraged, our pluralistic, democratic and free societies have gradually been yielding on our hard-won freedom of expression,"



Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/01/10/17/46/australian-newspaper-publishes-image-of-mohammed#f9LXG8XM1VEEY2iT.99

'At every step, the history of civilisation teaches us how slight & superficial a structure civilisation is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor & oppressed barbarism, superstition & ignorance'.

(From 'The Story of Civilisation' by Will Durant.)