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Israel's Irish embassy deletes picture of Molly Malone in niqab

The pictures also showed European landmarks with weapons such as suicide bombs.

THE ISRAELI EMBASSY in Ireland has deleted a picture that shows the Molly Malone statue in full Muslim dress.

The pictures were posted on social media over the weekend and contained European landmarks in Muslim dress or armed with weapons. It contains the slogan “Israel is the last frontier of the free world”.

The posting of the pictures sparked a fierce backlash online and the pictures were subsequently deleted, though an embassy spokesperson told The Sun they weren’t sure why.

Last week, the embassy tweeted a picture that compared Hamas to Hitler.

The Israeli ambassador told the Daily Telegraph that he would not comment on the pictures because “we are now in the middle of a war and I have other things to deal with”.

Calls to the Israeli Embassy went unanswered this morning and a request for comment has not been returned.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 8:23 PM

    This kid is an absolute hero….

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    Jan 9th 2014, 10:23 PM

    What the hell is wrong with these Islamists?
    It’s sad to see that a religion that once had great scholars & scientists & thinkers now drives these fools to try & blow up schools.

    Islamic extremism is the enemy of progress & civilisation.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 2:08 AM

    The suicide bomber is a brave warrior and hero to islam…. Fck, they actually believe that shyt…. Hope his 7 virgins are vicious 12 ft male aliens….

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    Jan 9th 2014, 8:24 PM

    What a sad end for an amazingly brave young boy.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 8:33 PM

    Jesus, with school shootings in the US and suicide bombers in the middle east, we have to count our blessings that we can send our kids to school each day without fear in the back of our minds.

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    Mute Mark William wills
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    Jan 9th 2014, 11:19 PM

    Muslims are trying to convert people to Islam everyday in cork I fear for the future of this country and I’m not a racist!

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    Jan 9th 2014, 11:26 PM

    Too true. Cork Muslims shiteing on about how their mosque is better than the one in North Dublin will get tedious very quickly

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    Jan 10th 2014, 12:17 AM

    Paranoid mate, you don’t get out much..

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:02 PM

    Remarkable young lad. What a waste.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:36 PM

    Brave young man indeed. Crazy what’s going on in that part of the world. I doubt the would-be bomber was much older himself. Totally brainwashed.

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    Mute Petr Tarasov
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    Jan 9th 2014, 10:33 PM

    Not sure about brainwashed. Robert Pape has done some really interesting research on this topic, summarised here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Win:_The_Strategic_Logic_of_Suicide_Terrorism

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    Jan 9th 2014, 10:55 PM

    Petr there’s no doubt that any would-be suicide bomber would have totally indoctrinated. And they encourage the young. It’s horrendous and nobody really wants to listen or help.

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    Mute Petr Tarasov
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    Jan 9th 2014, 11:12 PM

    Jamie — No doubt? Based on what evidence?

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    Mute Keith Fealy
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    Jan 9th 2014, 11:52 PM

    Based on the evidence that no child is born as a member of any religion. Nor are they born racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise. It’s all circumstantial. It’s your upbringing and your environment. Children are thought to hate.

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    Mute Petr Tarasov
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    Jan 10th 2014, 1:00 AM

    Keith — You haven’t presented any evidence. You’ve made assertions. I’ve linked to Robert Pape’s research on suicide terrorism and it contradicts what Jamie is saying. But like, believe whatever makes you happy.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 1:11 AM

    your evidence is in the report.one person was thaught to bomb a school.the other person was thaught to respect life!

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    Jan 10th 2014, 1:47 AM

    Petr, careful now. You praise the kid for stopping the bomber but you put up a link that seeks to explain suicide bombers and you dismiss the brainwashing part.
    It’s interesting that someone like you will accuse people of being brainwashed by the media, religion etc but a suicide bomber is not brainwashed?!

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    Jan 10th 2014, 7:59 AM

    Petr I was just about to say that you’ve never had that many green thumbs before, and then you went and spoiled it all with your follow-up comments…:-(

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    Jan 10th 2014, 9:56 AM

    Declan — I’ve told you before that explaining isn’t condoning. I’m interested in the social word and real explanations for things, rather than diatribes based on emotion.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 10:03 AM

    Avina — I got more green ones this time: http://thescore.thejournal.ie/profile/99434/the-poor-man-1753505/

    :)

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    Mute Patrick Lyons
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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:00 PM

    A very brave boy who detested terrorists. Terrorist sympathisers who post here should be suitably ashamed of themselves.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:24 PM

    i agree james

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:24 PM

    Gone to soon but what a HERO, Rest in Peace xx

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    Jan 9th 2014, 10:03 PM

    A selfless and noble act of pure bravery and self sacrifice, while it is sad that he lost his life, his family can gain solace in his heroic sacrifice while protecting his fellow schoolmates. While it is not a happy story it certainly gladdens my heart to hear a story of such a valiant act that helped prevent a possible large scale tragedy in a country where these tragic suicide events occur so often.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:21 PM

    Terrible waste of a young life in the name of religion

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    Jan 10th 2014, 11:34 AM

    He gave his life to save others. I wouldn’t say it was wasted, but gifted. Still to young tho… Hopefully he can inspire change now.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 8:55 PM

    What a brave young man
    Reminds me of Martin Doherty and what he did on the Door at the Widow Scallans

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:14 PM

    I do not think that terrorists attacking terrorists deserves to be mentioned here.

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:25 PM

    So everyday Dubliners having a pint are terrorists …. Classy Patrick
    Martin died stoping terrorists from shooting the pub up that night he gave his life to save others

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    Jan 9th 2014, 9:51 PM

    The problem with religion – Richard Dawkins
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBV3eqvQPJs

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    Jan 9th 2014, 11:54 PM

    Absolute hero.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 1:00 AM

    A young boy decided to sacrifice his life before he lived it to save others…
    Every one should think what that could possibly be like to even think about before they go barking utter Shite on the site.
    Said in memory to a most brave young child who I will never forget.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 12:41 AM

    Yet tomorrow his heroics will be forgotten by the Western world :( he was incredibly brave. I hope Pakistan recognises what he has done.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 1:29 AM

    He has been recognised as a national hero by the govt. And the people who think this terrorism is islamic have one thing common with those di*k heads that they both think it is islamic unlike us 99 % of normal muslims peace

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    Jan 10th 2014, 8:03 AM

    This terrorism is certainly Islamic Wasif. It may be comparatively rare and it may not represent ‘normal’ moslems, but its undeniable that its inspired by Islam and a warped interpretation of the Quran.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 2:22 AM

    Outstanding bravery and selflessness. Along with the brave girl Malala shot by the Taliban it just illustrates some of the horrors ordinary Pakistanis have to endure. Most simply want to get on with their lives and not be bothered by extremists or the government. Inspirational.

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    Jan 10th 2014, 8:38 AM

    Not to mention worrying about being blown up by wayward drone strikes

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    Jan 11th 2014, 12:34 AM

    What a brave man. At 17 risking your life to safe the people around you when i heard this on the news this morning i was shocked by his bravery i only wish that he could of survived as he had many years of life left. I pray he rests in peace and am thinking of his family at this time. Its a story of both bravery and sorrow.

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