29 Comments

• ruthorpen | Oct 14, 2012, 05:00 PM EDT

  I cannot believe the stupidity of anyone who can still believe any religion instigated by illiterate godherds before the time of reason or sense who are still driven today! Which bit of the law teaches women should be shielded from life giving vitamin D? Dooh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which bit of their religion says girls are a lesser person???? Anyone in their right mind should speak out aginst the impossed statement that they are 'offened by what we say'! I'm offeneded by their idiocy!

• SingleDonald | Oct 02, 2012, 04:18 PM EDT

  So long as these protesters were peaceful, I can't vilify them. They did not act violently, as did numerous other demonstrators over the film. The movie was trash, and the film maker mislead actors about the content, and their roles within. I share the majority's view that Islam is a backward religion. It represses women, and men too, to a certain extent. It treats women as 2nd class citizens, and holds non Muslims to be "infidels". I saw a "60 Minutes" segment, which was filmed in an Eastern Orthodox seminary, in Turkey. The patriarch showed a document on a cave wall. It bore the hand print of the prophet Mohammed, as he was an illiterate. His hand print endorsed the content of the parchment. It said that no members of other religions should be persecuted, if they could not accept Islam. Other things I have read about Mohammed told how he preached that Islam should be spread by word of mouth, not persecution. If Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. just could not accept Islam, they were to be left alone! So, Mohammed was a tolerant man, who did not wish any harm to befall those who modern Muslims refer to as "infidels"! I only wish that Mohammed could return to earth, and set the modern Muslim world straight!

• esatdigiwank | Oct 02, 2012, 05:24 AM EDT

  We need to repeal the anti-Blasphemy law (and make an anti-prophet for profit film of our own haha.) Stir up the rag-head 5th Column in Ireland, bring them out into the open.

• EphraimKibbey | Oct 02, 2012, 01:13 AM EDT

  IrelandNorth, they "project" their own weaknesses onto others. That seems to be a theme in the current political story. I wonder what works best to overcome the weakness, imprisoning the object of the weakness in cloth, stoning or the threat of damnation? Maybe a well aimed slap across the face would suffice? If one is prevented from ever dealing with one's weaknesses how can one ever eliminate them. One can never know the strength of the untried rope.

• Smyrnian | Oct 01, 2012, 03:16 PM EDT

  Go to any Muslim land and try out THEIR tolerance for your protests or your religion. Just try it and see what dungeon you wind up in. Been there.

• jacersagain | Oct 01, 2012, 01:27 PM EDT

  I’m really upset that a few hundred Muslims can take to the streets on my beloved Dublin City to protest against something as simple as free speech. There are plenty of stones on Dublin’s seaside strands. Next time these Muslims plan to take over our streets to protest, I would urge all my fellow Irish citizens to collect and bag these beach stones and line the route that they take and silently stone them.

• WoundedKnee | Oct 01, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT

  Maggie47: "Just wait next thing they will want the bars and night clubs closed down, no more irish music". You may have said that in jest, but you're not far wrong. A friend of mine in Ireland told me that an Arab guy living in an apartment near his objected to the fact that my friend had posters of nubile ladies on his wall. As would befit a friend of mine, my man told him to **** himself all the way back to whatever Arabian Middle Age culture he had crawled out of.

• Smyrnian | Oct 01, 2012, 09:58 AM EDT

  Religion of peace? Ha ha ha ha ha ha Great sign! High marks for creativity and imagination anyway.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 01, 2012, 07:35 AM EDT

  Sitting in S[ain]t Stephen's Green (Dublin's Central Park!) earlier in summer, observed a young Muslim couple with the sweetest little 2 yr old baby girl you ever did see. Full of wonder, watching the pidgeons and fountains etc. Sadly, they had her wearing a headscarf at such a young age, repressing her natural spontaneity. And a very unhappy looking mother too! Sad what culture does to humanity.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 01, 2012, 07:29 AM EDT

  Travelling into Dublin city yesterday on the LUAS (green line) tram system with my teenage daughter, noticed two young Arab men in rap apparel stealing lustful glances of her. On staring them down until they got off the tram later, couldn't quite get over the projective irony of a culture which hajibs its own women, obviously fearful of the adulterous glaces of men just like themselves.

• IrelandNorth | Oct 01, 2012, 07:20 AM EDT

  Hmmm! The Innocence of [Google](?) Me thinks that there be a Judeo-Christian latter day crusade in the offing to nib the theology of mass hysteria in the bud. The Director of this puerile nonsense is a Coptic Christian from Egypt. Is he a lone director, or is he franchising someones hidden agenda? It was a peaceful protest, which like the US is perfectly lawful in Ireland.

• Springfield9 | Oct 01, 2012, 01:03 AM EDT

  Give them all waterproof carpets and set them out to sea.

• angrypaddy | Oct 01, 2012, 12:05 AM EDT

  Send those monkies back to the stone age where they belong

• cillowen | Sep 30, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT

  "Google has a very clear view on this, which is that we believe the answer to bad speech is more speech.". Yet is a crime to shout fire in a theater. War by Blasphemy game at play - a way to test the waters put primarily to get obamar to focus more on (makes 'em nervous) Iran.

• Maggie47 | Sep 30, 2012, 08:44 PM EDT

  kennedy 23 I agree. Just wait next thing they will want the bars and night clubs closed down, no more irish music.

• Maggie47 | Sep 30, 2012, 06:49 PM EDT

  The video is a ruse, a farce that is a poorly made B trailer which has been on youtube long before the attacks. This is just an excuse for Muslims to demonstrate and riot. Wake up people. Even if the video were offensive is that a reason or excuse to riot, kill and burn? That says more about Islam than it does about the video or it's maker.

• EphraimKibbey | Sep 30, 2012, 06:36 PM EDT

  It all depends on whose ox is being gored! It wasn't so long ago that the Maplethorp art exhibit came to Cincinnati, Ohio USA (pre-Internet) and the vial of urine containing a cross with Christ afixed was enough to get the exhibit banned by the city after many Christians protested. It seems that they were not so concerned with the artist's freedom of speech as with the insult to the person central to their religion. Western cultures have had a couple of centuries of this thing called free speech and are beginning to get used to the idea that it works both ways. Islam comes to it anew and may have some growing pains as it learns that for others to accept your freedoms, you must respect theirs. If their protests become violent, then the protestors have become criminals and should be arrested and prosecuted. If they remain peaceful, well does Ireland have the right of peaceful assembly like the US or not?

• emorstscr | Sep 30, 2012, 04:15 PM EDT

  The area where I grew up in Dublin was where most of the Jewish people lived. They were, including our next door neighbours, Friendly, good kind people. Today all their houses of worship are mosques!!! and I cannot say the Muslims are living up to the standards of the previous congregations.

• merefalow | Sep 30, 2012, 03:28 PM EDT

  the fact that muslims who have no history or comprehension of democratic principles,who destroy democracy,call for its destruction are allowed in a democractic demonstration is a f..... discrace.send them back to the societies they came from, and see how their demonstration is recieved in their moslem sharia dominated societies.

• Pittsburghkid | Sep 30, 2012, 02:20 PM EDT

  Ireland should deport them. Muslims have to get used to free speech. Catholic are subjected to pictures of Christ in urine. If Muslims want laws against free speech, then they should move back to the middle-east. That way the Muslims will be happy in a repressive society, and the Western Countrys will be happy with free speech. So deportation will make everyone happy.

• Searlit | Sep 30, 2012, 02:16 PM EDT

  When women are treated as equals then other issues pertaining to discrimination could be looked at. What right does anyone have to complain when they engage in discrimination or exploitation of anyone else?

• Jim66 | Sep 30, 2012, 12:59 PM EDT

  Why are these digusting dogs allowed to march on MY streets? Why aren't they removed by force and killed. Putrid, disgusting pigs! The whole world is sick and tired of their crap. What are they complaining about anyways, a video? What a load! Muslims should be kicked out of every country that they are NOT from! They don't belong anywhere, except the middle east, where they belong. If they continue to move everywhere they want to, once the command is given, they'll be able to take over any country they are living in, by force. Whay all of a sudden are these pigs moving all over the world? In places they don't even understand or can cope with? Just think about what i said...

• bobby | Sep 30, 2012, 12:41 PM EDT

  It is called the Docklands district, not dockyards.

• aprincess4u2 | Sep 30, 2012, 12:18 PM EDT

  Amen to that kennedy23!

• Tom Mo | Sep 30, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

  These savages should be ignored. That's the same photo from last week's Embassy photo. They must all be on the dole. God save Ireland from these 7th century mutants.

• liammurf | Sep 30, 2012, 12:10 PM EDT

  It only bothers you if you watch it. Don't watch it if it going to bother you. Freedom of speech, case closed. How about burning of chutes in countries where you came from. A bit over the top. If their country and religion is SO GREAT, go back to Allah and marry a large black plastic TRASH bag. Oh ya, how many of your women were "Allowed" to march in this demonstration. Maybe they didn't want to. ENOUGH

• Parents | Sep 30, 2012, 11:27 AM EDT

  As a woman along with millions of others I am hurt and insulted when I see other women covered from head to toe in black and they have no rights at all. This is very insulting to a free woman, millions of us.

• kennedy23 | Sep 30, 2012, 10:29 AM EDT

  Assam Mohammed, you live in Ireland for 7 yrs!! well let me tell you i'am born and reared in Ireland and we believe in freedom of speech if you do not like our values and customs feel free to head off to Dublin airport and take the next flight back to where you came from and that would also apply to any other Muslim who has a problem in this land .As for Alam Ghulam Rabbini and the hurt to 1.5 billion Muslims around the world i take it you talked to them all one by one! and to you i would say also if you do not like the Irish way of life feel free to go home .

• BrianO | Sep 30, 2012, 10:16 AM EDT

  If the muslims are upset over free speech, then we should by all means censor everything we say and do, I say sharia law for everyone, honey do you have an extra face veil for the weekend, might want to do some clubbin.