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German carnival drops Charlie Hebdo-inspired float after Paris attack
Yahoo! News ^ | Jan 29, 2015 | Matthias Inveradi (Reuters)

Posted on 01/30/2015 3:52:26 AM PST by Leaning Right

A German carnival has dropped plans to build a "Charlie Hebdo" float with a cartoonist forcing a pencil into the barrel of a terrorist's gun, after receiving messages from locals worried about safety if the float went on show.

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The Charlie Hebdo-inspired float had been chosen through an Internet vote.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: carnival; charliehebdo; cologne; deathtoislam; france; paris
Common sense on the part of the carnival, or another surrender?
1 posted on 01/30/2015 3:52:26 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Should use the float for bait to draw out the terrorist.


2 posted on 01/30/2015 3:59:22 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy. Cruz, that is. Texas conservative.)
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To: Leaning Right

Another surrender.

The fighting spirit has been bred out of the German people.


3 posted on 01/30/2015 4:06:03 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m sure you mean that rhetorically, but yeah - surrender. And the Islamo-fascist cockroaches are watching every one.


4 posted on 01/30/2015 4:12:10 AM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Leaning Right

I should note here....living in Germany....that this is the carnival staff in Koln. If you do a percentage check...out of the one million residents....roughly 300,000 are either immigrant Germans or foreign residents with a visa for Germany. That should give you an idea of the potential political worries here. From the major four parties (CDU, SPD, Green, and Linke Party)....none of them want front-page problems with the non-Germans...it’ll do them in with the next region/national election.

The whole carnival atmosphere is supposed to be about humor, partying, drinking, and sarcastic wit. You can be sarcastic about anything....except anything that has to do with the Prophet-stuff.

Surrender? They created an atmosphere where a 7th Century dead illiterate prophet is now interfering with typical German activities. Try explaining that with a straight face.


5 posted on 01/30/2015 4:13:24 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Leaning Right

The terrorists win!


6 posted on 01/30/2015 4:22:10 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: pepsionice

You paint a disturbing picture of Germany and its people.

In your estimation, what will the German politicians and people do when the jihadists crawl out from under the slime and start butchering German children as they did in Beslan?


7 posted on 01/30/2015 4:24:43 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Leaning Right

They are going to replace the Charlie float with one showing Hitler slipping on a banana...oh...that German sense of humor....


8 posted on 01/30/2015 4:27:52 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: Leaning Right

So what was the great march, complete with joining of hands, harmony, and all that crap, united against terrorism all about? Pure show. I am Charlie. See Charlie run. Run, Charlie, run.

It turns out to be a pre-cave gathering.


9 posted on 01/30/2015 4:29:17 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Leaning Right

Some Euros are taking a stand...not many but growing. Remember they arent Texans.........


10 posted on 01/30/2015 4:32:03 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: Leaning Right
This would make a nice float.

The Muslims won't mind it, as long as it frightens more kafirs into submission or conversion.


11 posted on 01/30/2015 4:37:47 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Leaning Right

In that instance, the Terrorists have won.


12 posted on 01/30/2015 4:52:59 AM PST by lee martell
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To: sergeantdave

In the case of Breslin....I always expected massive payback and permanent defensive posture to occur. You didn’t get that from the Russians...oddly enough.

For a Paris-like episode or a Breslin-like event to occur in Germany...it’d likely make it very uncomfortable to be an outsider and think that ‘rights’ and the cops were going to protect you.

Presently, Germany is undergoing a crime-wave of sorts (over a decade in building up) that has nothing to do with Islam but mostly East Europeans that arrived and saw it as a Disneyland operation for theft (19,000 vehicles stolen in Germany). So, it is a large issue with many points to it.


13 posted on 01/30/2015 4:55:33 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Leaning Right

No politically insensitive floats. Then no women with bare shoulders. Then no church bells. No women with uncovered heads. No drinking. Then no Western music. No women unaccompanied by a male relative. No dancing. No pork. No music. No kissing in public. No Jews. No holding hands. No Christians. No dogs. No TV. No laughing. No. No. No. No life.


14 posted on 01/30/2015 5:22:57 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Flick Lives
No politically insensitive floats. Then no women with bare shoulders...

I think you're spot on with your predictions. Putting aside the terrorist activities for a moment, the Islamists are all about pushing ahead, demanding more. Western civilization is all about falling back, giving in.

For the Islamists, slow and steady wins the race.

15 posted on 01/30/2015 5:37:21 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: pepsionice
If I'm not mistaken, there is a history of Islam critical carnival floats...see
16 posted on 01/30/2015 5:39:33 AM PST by wtd
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To: wtd

Until this ISIS thing started up over Syria....I think you could do a skeptical-view float and they had to accept it (note, there’s always an anti-Pope float and various anti-Christian floats). The political folks are freaking out because the whole immigration thing might be used for an election theme...rather than the typical anti-US-gimmick, pension-reform, or corruption-angle.

If some election occurs and the new AfD party (newly created in the past two years) gets twenty-five percent of the national vote because of their anti-immigration stake....the stability of the German Bundestag (parliament) gets flipped into question. It’s hard enough for five parties to figure out a team-work situation to get fifty-percent control of the Bundestag....but AfD would make it things very difficult.


17 posted on 01/30/2015 5:48:46 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Leaning Right

“Ich bin ein feigling.”


18 posted on 01/30/2015 5:49:52 AM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Leaning Right; All

The word “Carnival” in German is the same 3 days of celebration before Ash Wednesday parade and party we call Mardi Gras holiday celebrated before Lent. Not a touring Amusement company.


19 posted on 01/30/2015 6:53:46 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Leaning Right

Gallization of the Fatherland. Can’t give in to these monsters. Increase security and expell any bastards suspected of trouble.


20 posted on 01/30/2015 12:52:09 PM PST by ZULU (Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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