You know what they say: no true Scotsman would be a Scotsman on the internet, talking about haggis. (Or is it the other way round?)
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She’s not openly anti-Semitic, but she does rant about globalism and George Soros, so she’s definitely willing to use their arguments.
She ran for the European Parliament in Dublin in the recent elections, and her literature was like right-wing conspiracy bingo. Check this out:
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There are videos of her walking around suburbs complaining about adverts on buses and the opening of a branch of a German supermarket. In one she sees a piece of street art that shows Don Quixote and says “oh, we know all about him”. She’s a bit like Don Quixote herself walking around getting into imaginary battles and tilting at Lidls.
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This isn’t about the UK. Roscommon is in Ireland.
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I had a look at the Facebook page of the store in question. Imagine my horror when I found they are blatantly selling:
- Eggs!
- Fresh fruit and vegetables!
- Cans of Sprite!
- Persil washing powder!
- Maxwell House instant coffee!*
- Bottled Irish spring water!
- Colgate toothpaste!
- Those great big rolls of blue tissue paper you find on garage forecourts and in light-industrial settings generally!
- 20-kilo bags of basmati rice!**
Under Sharia, we will all suffer the burden of clean teeth and clothes, a selection of soft drinks (both sugared and diet), and easily-wiped-up spills.
* Okay, that one’s a genuine strike against them.
** For €27.50. That’s about $31 or £25. The cheapest that ASDA will do it for is £15 for a 10-kilo bag.
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It’s only a matter of time before ultra-nationalists and right-wing populists start indulging in the “socialism of fools.” Sadly, that also goes for ultra-nationalist and right-wing populist Jews like Ben Shapiro, who I’ve noticed roll out the same old anti-Semitic canards and calumnies against other Jews they deem not sufficiently devout or right-wing or opposed to Muslims. That’s how baked-in anti-Semitism is to right-wing populism: even some Jews start using its tropes against their co-religionists.
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That’s not the claim being made at all in that regard. The Irish pub in Dubai was brought up in a humorous way to point out O’Doherty’s ridiculously blind hypocrisy and to highlight her underlying bigotry.
What’s absurd is the contention that most here see the practise of Islam as monolithically fundamentalist, or that misogyny and homophobia are unique to the fundamentalist doctrine of only one Abrahamic religion. You may want to consider that you’re engaging in some psychological projection here.
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Not to mention her transphobia and homophobia.
Weird how her transphobia and homophobia gets brushed under the rug - but the owner of this shop who hasn’t been accused of either somehow is assumed to be guilty of both with no evidence that this reflects their views and actions.
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UK? Roscommon is in Ireland
She wants to eliminate lgbt people- that butcher - as far as anyone has shown- just wants to sell me a nice brisket.
Fuck this noise:
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It reminds me a lot of the “You lefties defend Muslims but they throw gay people off of rooftops” thing, where the person making the argument is just doing it to try and shut down criticism of their own bigotry, not because they actually care about the person who got thrown off the roof.
And yeah, Gemtrails is a grab-bag of bigotry, her whole thing about a unicorn shirt being old in TK Maxx being a sign of a global LGBT conspiracy was amazing. (EDIT, you posted that pic as I was still typing)
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It used to be joked that whether you were on the left or the right in Ireland, when compared to the USA you were always on the left. But this clown has firmly camped with the tea-party right.
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The person making that criticism lives in a country where trans people are already being murdered in hate crimes at a god awful rate.
He’s usually just jealous.
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Yeah, there’s a nasty streak of far-right sentiment in Ireland right now, between Gemma O’Doherty, Herman Kelly/the Irexit Party, Ben Gilroy and Peter Casey’s political ambitions, and attempts by PEGIDA to get off the ground here. I do think it’s heartening that they mostly did badly in the polls (though Casey getting 20% of first preferences in the presidential election and being the last person eliminated in the Midlands-North West MEP election is worrying as hell), and that the results of the various referendums show they’re not appealing to a majority of the country overall.
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Did I say it wasn’t?
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What? Kosher/Halal butchers banned? What manner of idiocy inspired that?
In the US, the sad truth is that “Irish Pubs” are too often the only decent place to get lamb dishes. Even the Indian restaurants don’t serve it as much as in Europe.
Now, as for Indian lamb, I really miss the Navajo dishes but at least there are some places in the Southwest where you can get the makings for cabritos. Which are, as it happens, halal.
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The first rule of Haggis Club…
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If there are Muslims, including imams (and there are), who don’t agree with the fundamentalist Muslims opinions of women and LGBT+ people then the twit’s point is as much an “extraordinary claim” as the response is. Islam is no more intrinsically misogynist and homophobic then the other Abrahamic religions (i.e., pretty misogynistic and homophobic, but there are many adherents who transcend these attitudes).
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I think that the laws in question are not so much a “ban” as a lack of religious exemptions from the relevant animal welfare laws.
I believe the major sticking point is the insistence that animals are stunned to ensure that they are not conscious when they are killed. Unfortunately, the relevant technologies were not available during the bronze age, and are not specified in the relevant texts, which leads to people who insist on the letter of the text being unable to comply.
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