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Swedish flag banned in swedish schools

DvDex — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:31:35 +0800

http://www.amren.com/news/2014/12/swedish-...e-swedish-flag/

The Swedish flag has now been banned at a primary school in Sweden. The reason is that the flag may be offensive to certain groups and breaking the law “offensive against ethnic groups.”

The sensational ban is introduced at Söndrum school in Halmstad. Use of the flag is now only allowed on the national day or when foreign students are invited.

In an internal letter to school students and their parents who were sent out just before Christmas, the school principal writes that “no other use of the Swedish flag is allowed”, according to Nyheter idag.

Swedish flag can be perceived as racist

The reason for the ban is a masquerade which was held at the school recently where one of the students chose to paint his face blue and yellow. He also have brought a toy gun to masquerade.

The school management reacted very strongly and now prohibits both the Swedish flag and toy weapons.

– Will stop this before it goes too far, says the school’s principal, Hans Åkerlund to Nyheter i dag.

– We strive to help students not do stupid things when it comes to flags and weapons.

Akerlund also believes that by using the Swedish flag one may be guilty of violating the racism law.

The prohibition also applies to school photography since the school management wants school photographs to be “free of national symbols”.

Charlie Hebdo sacked "antisemitic" cartoonist

DvDex — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:17:10 +0800

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/...ssandpublishing

-Posted in 2008-

Take an elderly anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-clerical cartoonist and add a suspicion of anti-Semitism and a dash of politics. Into this explosive mix stir several thousand amateur polemicists and a few score professional ones. Now, in a Paris sweltering in the summer heat, light the touchpaper and stand well back.

There is no indication when the blast waves from the Affaire Siné are likely to stop reverberating around France. Already the mayor of Paris, the country's best-known philosopher and the minister of culture have spoken out against Siné, whose real name is Maurice Sinet, while an internet petition in his support has more than 7,000 signatures and is going strong.

Two of the bastions of left-wing publishing - the newspaper Libération and the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - are riven by fevered and bad-tempered debate. Every day sees a new avalanche of opinion pieces and web posts and no one expects them to stop soon.

The row kicked off last month when Siné, 79 and ill, filed his weekly satirical column complete with cartoons for Charlie Hebdo as he has done for two decades. Philippe Val, the editor, barely read the veteran contributor's standard ironic invective and so missed the reference made to aspirant politician Jean Sarkozy, the smooth-talking 21-year-old law student son of the right-wing President.

The young man, Siné wrote without a shred of evidence, was planning to convert to Judaism before marrying Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, the Jewish heiress of a huge electronics chain. 'He'll go a long way in life, this lad!' Siné commented. The piece was published without controversy - until several days later, when a radio presenter referred to it as anti-Semitic. The families of those concerned were said to be 'sickened'. Val, who took the controversial decision to re-publish a Danish newspaper's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed two years ago in the name of freedom of the press, agreed that the piece was offensive and told its author to apologise.

Siné refused, saying he would rather 'cut his own nuts off' and was, more or less, fired. Cue outrage, argument, counter argument, argument. Was the original statement anti-Semitic? For Val, there was no doubt. Siné's statements, he said last week, 'could be interpreted as making a link between conversion to Judaism and social success' and that they spread the old stereotype associating Jews and money.

But for his collaborator and founder of Charlie Hebdo, François Cavanna, they were 'one of Siné's more extreme jokes, certainly dangerous but rare'. Other colleagues supported the cartoonist's 'right to provoke'. Many have signed the petition of support.

At Libération, editor Laurent Joffrin has attacked the anti-Semitism. 'Everything is there,' he said. 'The association of the Jew, money and power in one phrase which stigmatises the arrivisme of an individual.' But at Libération, as at Charlie Hebdo, other journalists disagreed. According to Luc Le Vaillant, a senior editor at the newspaper, Siné is a victim of the 'exploitation of anti-Semitism' in the debate between 'the two sides of the left'. 'It is more than unpleasant to be seen as a potential anti-Semite when you attack the excesses of the American Empire, "the best friend of Israel", when you oppose an [economically] neo-liberal Europe or when you want to do something more than just "regulate" capitalism,' he said. For the row over Siné is about much more than the cartoonist. It is about history and politics.

Both sides have dredged Siné's history of provocation to support their arguments. His defenders talk of his campaigns against French colonialism as well as his 'big gob'. His attackers point to a 1982 radio interview, shortly after a terrorist attack on Jews in central Paris, in which the cartoonist said: 'Yes, I am anti-Semitic and I am not scared to admit it... I want all Jews to live in fear, unless they are pro-Palestinian. Let them die.' Siné later apologised.

'Behind this split are a range of issues, notably the positions taken by the various protagonists on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,' said Nonna Mayer of the Centre for Political Thought at Paris's Sciences Po University. 'It is complicated and irritating and a lot of stupid, uninformed things have been said. The debate has been tilted.'

Certainly the line-up of those pro and anti Siné pits major figures of the moderate left, such as Paris mayor and potential Socialist Party leader Bertrand Delanoë and philosopher Bernard Henri-Lévy, against those on the extreme left. The latter see themselves as defenders of the right to say what they want without being 'censored' or 'muzzled' by the shadowy 'authorities', 'powers' or even 'networks of influence and capital' that are set on imposing 'savage' 'Anglo-Saxon' capitalist liberal economics on France and on the world.

Other examples of the satirist's humour, cited by Le Monde, include saying that homosexuals smell of the 'shithouse' and that 'pulling the toilet chain is the only choice'. Historical references to French writers who collaborated with the Nazis during the Occupation, the deportation of 70,000 French Jews during the Second World War with the active assistance of the French police and the Dreyfus Affair have also been brought into the row as well as a running discussion in extreme left and extreme right circles about the possibility that Sarkozy senior, the President, is in fact Jewish but hiding it. And it is summer.

'There's a tendency to show off, to enjoy the sound of one's own voice that has fuelled the whole thing too,' said Mayer at Sciences Po. 'It would have been better just to ignore these idiocies. They really do not deserve the attention they are getting.'

KFC's fried chicken is the best in Malaysia

DvDex — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:29:00 +0800

Its cheaper than McD
Its tastier
Good environment
More options to choose from
Experience in the business for many years
More hygenic
Double down is by far the best burger made by mankind

I will always support KFC and you should too

Bad experience at mamak restaurant

DvDex — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:20:52 +0800

when i sip from their glass i taste chili
also when the drink is not sweet they charge rm.20 extra to repair it

wtf

Cold weather wont stop

DvDex — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:15:58 +0800

24c just now
this weather is giving me a headache

How do you write bahasa pasar

DvDex — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:06:28 +0800

you know, like woi brader ko nak buat per sok
i really dunno how to write this way since everyone kept mistaking me as a chinese or indian on internet because "poor" malay.
take this for example when im insulting someone,

knapa ko bawak keta macam sial, aku dah bagi ko jalan pastu ko stay kat situ macam papan. ko ingat aku tgah bawak rilek ni, aku tgh rush la babi. ko tgok skrang bumper aku dah pecah. baik ko ikut aku ke balai sebelum steering lock aku cium kpale ko

how? can malay expert correct my bahasa pasar? i rly suck at this

Honesty thread

DvDex — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:56:25 +0800

Welcome to my honesty thread! in here everyone must be honest to each other. Please post with a comment saying honest things like what i did here as an example:

Im actually a guy
Im not married
I make around rm3500 p/month in the private sector
I hate hypocrites
I hate asian music of all kind, malay included and prefers western ones.

now its your turn

apple should invest in...

DvDex — Sat, 10 May 2014 03:22:32 +0800

holograms
why? cos its the future we all want and need

smart people go into holographic imaging. you want to be rich just focus on this piece of next tech

how to get this kind of pic?

DvDex — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:03:11 +0800

what lens should i use and what body?

girls, how far would u allow ur bf to touch u?

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:45:14 +0800

just to make a survey...to wat extent would u girls let ur bf touch u? and do u and ur bf foreplay before marriage, or would u prefer to wait until marriage? is foreplaying considered as sex before marriage? it seems like it's a common thing in couples nowadays, but does it happen in almost every relationship? pls share in your views..thanks

What do girls do when they're depressed?

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:30:23 +0800

Eat eat and eat =.="

ever got molested/raped/kidnaped?

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:25:19 +0800

QUOTE

Yesterday should be a day full of joy and fun for me. I had a great time at Sunway with Amber, we went shopping for our things. Later that, watched 'LoveY Man' with Reyvan, Derrick, Evon and Mei Quan. However, all that ends when I went back to my place using the train.

Derrick dropped me and Amber at the Kelana Jaya station. Amber stopped at Bangsar station where I got to stop at Masjid Jamek and changed to Star LRT station to go to Titiwangsa. So everything was fine initially till at Sultan Ismail station when a creepy scary guy entered the train. The worst part of it, at the same station many people got off from the train.

Next thing I know, the guy came and sat directly next to me very closely. He started to hold and grab my hand. When I told him to get his hand off from me, he said : "You got very soft hands." I was like WTF! So I tried to pull my hand but he took out a pocketknife and laid the knife on my arm.

The more I struggle, the harder he pressed the knife against my arm. I was so scared and didn't know what to do. He kept telling me that he want to bring me back home and play. I kept thinking how to get out from the situation. As time passes by, the harder the knife was on my arm.

I missed my stop at Titiwangsa because when I tried to get up, he blocked my way. Luckily at the next stop, Sentul, a group of working people came into the train and the guy was distracted by them. Quickly I pushed his hand off from my hand and managed to ran out of the train without him following me.

I thank God that I'm still alive now and nothing really very bad happened to me. So I advise all the gals out there to be very CAREFUL! As you see, I didn't even thought this will happen to me but it did. Never let your guards down!

found this when blog hopping, now adays...

last time I also kena molested in train before..

Dream residence?

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 12:31:08 +0800

lets say you can afford any residence you want what would it be in malaysia?

Boondocks latest episode

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 02:54:26 +0800

Breaking Grandad

not one of the best episode they got but pretty good nevertheless.
any thoughts?

what is/k/ workout routine

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 02:39:51 +0800

i dont go to gym anymore, bought weights at home.

my routine:
seated arm curl 10-12-15kg 3 sets 10 reps each
seated overhead press 30-40-50kg 3 sets 10 reps each
bodyweight squats 50 rep 1 set
shrugs 15kg 5sets 20reps each

five times a week 2 day rest. i want to be like saitama

Whats the price of john putih in ur area

DvDex — Thu, 08 May 2014 01:57:18 +0800

mine rm4 already. fake one with shit packaging.
whats ur area cost

yamah R1 or hayabusa

DvDex — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:58:31 +0800

which one of these do you guys think better for value? any maintenance issues? fuel consumption? roadtax issues? handling? what do you guys think?

price is not really a problem

How do people afford a ferrari

DvDex — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:55:26 +0800

i dont get it, what have they done in their life to own such an expensive car? i knew several businessman that's 25m in net worth yet the best car they got is an E class.

what busineses that they own that makes so much money?

Australia vs Malaysia

DvDex — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:36:07 +0800

Hi guys i would like to ask between Australia and Malaysia if given a chance which country would you rather live as both has their pros and cons in terms of living expenses,quality of life,values,culture,education and health care.For those of you who visited both these countries what would you prefer and why? =)

Cheap places to find netbook battery

DvDex — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:32:26 +0800

my netbook battery is almost kong. where to find replacement quick?