Police in Northern Ireland investigating ‘Catholics will be crucified’ threat

Irish Central ^ | July 10, 2015 01:00 AM | Casey Egan

[Olog-hai]

Police in Belfast are investigating a photo posted to social media on Monday in which a group of masked men yielding baseball bats, axes and stakes stand before a wall of graffiti that threatens to crucify Catholics.

“Taigs will be crucified,” the shocking message reads, using a derogatory term for Irish Catholics.

The letters “VTOT” are written below, with a cross. They are believed to stand for “Village Team on Tour,” the name of a loyalist gang in South Belfast.

The graffiti was discovered on Monday, when the photo was first shared on social media. It has been widely viewed as an attempt at heightening tension before the Twelfth of July, the day of loyalist celebration that commemorates King William of Orange’s victory in the Battle of the Boyne. …

[Berlin_Freeper]

Battle of the Boyne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Berlin_Freeper]

tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange

[Berlin_Freeper]

In 1673, Louis XIV of France annexed all territory of the principality to France and to the royal domain, as part of the war actions against the stadtholder William III of Orange — who later became King William III of Great Britain. Orange ceased to exist as a sovereign realm, de facto.

[TangibleDisgust]

i watched this the other day. it's fiction, but it highlights that the dispute was really more political than religious, sometimes without really clear distinctions between the two sides...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2614684/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Berlin_Freeper]

Protestantism
With its origins in Germany,

[berdie]

Now wait just a darn minute....didn’t Bill Clinton say he had all the unrest in Northern Ireland settled? Peace in our time?

No way he would lie...would he?

[Fiji Hill]

Police in Belfast are investigating a photo posted to social media on Monday in which a group of masked men yielding baseball bats, axes and stakes...

Would anyone in Northern Ireland know what baseball bats are used for?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The Irish do seem to have a rather different POU for the baseball bat than was originally intended.

[Olog-hai]

Those who play Rounders might.

[Organic Panic]

Investigate as in why catholics have angered Muslims and trying to find catholics to throw to the muslims investigation???

[virgil]

The Irish call it a shalaylee. The spelling may be wrong on that, but it comes up if you search it.