Two Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists have been jailed for throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting after they came close to “destroying” the masterpiece. BBC News has more.
Phoebe Plummer, 23 and Anna Holland, 22, were previously convicted of criminal damage after the contents of two tins of tomato soup were poured on to the priceless 1888 piece at the National Gallery in central London.
They then glued their hands to the wall beneath it.
The pair caused £10,000 worth of damage to the gold-coloured frame of the glass-covered painting in the October 2022 attack.
Plummer received a two-year jail term at Southwark Crown Court, while Holland was handed 20 months.
Outside the court, a number of JSO supporters gathered, some of whom held posters of historical figures jailed for activism.
Staff at the gallery were worried the soup may have dripped through the protective glass and destroyed the painting, the court heard.
It also heard that the damaged frame had been purchased by the gallery in 1999 and was valued at £28,000.
Sentencing the women, Judge Christopher Hehir said the “cultural treasure” could have been “seriously damaged or even destroyed”. …
The judge told Plummer, who was also handed a criminal behaviour order: “You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it. You do not.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: In response to the incarcerations, Just Stop Oil activists have today thrown soup over two of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings in “a sign of defiance”. Gluttons for punishment, it seems.
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I am afraid that as a direct result of the actions and plans of many European legislations it has come to this . We need to impose or reimpose assimilation if the “guests ” plan to remain but it would be better if the numbers of new arrivals from Eastern /Muslim countries were significantly reduced . I really fear that sometime soon , perhaps France is the spark ?, that there will be open violence from the newly arrived on the native populations.
There willthen be a backlash and I do not think that will be pretty ..
Coudenhove Kalergi plan in action ….
Our MPs are traitors all.
Such violence already exists in France.
Perhaps you have a much more serious outbreak in mind, if so, just wait awhile.
But what I don’t get is this, as per the article I shared previously;
”And what no one is able to explain is why Great Britain should be saddled with the tremendous burden of taking in these people, even in cases where they may be refugees. There are 57 Muslim countries, of which 22 are Arab countries, including a half-dozen of the richest countries in the world – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain. Why should those countries not be asked to take in their fellow Muslims from now on, rather than inflict still more of those economic migrants on the countries of the West, that have already taken in tens of millions of Muslims, with the unhappy results we all see.”
Not only would it be better for us if the immigrants went to other Muslim countries but also for them. When we read daily about all of the atrocities committed by Muslim migrants across Europe, usually against natives of the country they’re residing in, it doesn’t exactly strike me as proof that the perpetrator is wanting to be here in Europe or grateful that they were allowed into the country plus for having their basic requirements taken care of by the country’s government. So if they hate it that much, or they hate *us* and our culture that much, why on earth make the risky journey and come here at all?? Are we seriously supposed to believe none of the many Muslim countries won’t take them in?
So therefore, because this situation appears to be a complete nonsense, I’m left to come to the conclusion that a significant chunk of them are here to deliberately cause harm and havoc, spreading their violent ideology ( it’s hardly the ”religion of peace” is it?? ) and it’s basically all an agenda they have. I won’t say all of course but many. There’s even reports about people who’ve come to Europe as asylum seekers and once they’re citizens they then go back to their country of origin on holiday! WTAF?
“There’s even reports about people who’ve come to Europe as asylum seekers and once they’re citizens they then go back to their country of origin on holiday! WTAF?”
Actually they only go back once their benefit claims are up and running and the money is plopping in to their bank accounts.
As Sinor pointed out ! It is The Kalergi Plan ! It’s all on purpose & it’s going well for Baron Coudenhoves disciples ! A few more years & Europe will be another 3rd world shithole !
Is anyone else sick-to-f*ck of everything at the moment?
Not in a depressed, massively destructive way, but man alive, stories like this are starting to fracture my reality a bit. We have the military rejecting male applicants, kids identifying as cats, free speech getting absolutely pounded by c*nts in cheap suits…
Just seems like the real, normal world of facts, transparency and logic is getting completely fractured into a second reality because of sh*t like this. Sick of it…
Thank God it’s Friday…I need a vodka, f*ck me… Haha!
You’re not alone. I’ve been on a downer at the news all week. Even RFK Jr let us all down by supporting affirmative action! I don’t drink and I’ve wished I still did at times in the last few weeks! Better I don’t though!!
For the record, blasphemy, bad language, and you fail to identify root causes. Heat’s all very well, but we need light too.
I’m afraid once you mentally step through the Looking Glass there is no going back ! Every thing we knew has been inverted since all the Second WWar Generation passed on !
Difficult one: not shaking hands is ultimately bad manners. It’s also your right in a free society to be bad mannered. It’s also the headmistress’s right to call you out on your bad manners.
If only Norway hadn’t colonised so many Muslim countries.
The problem isn’t “colonisation” but lack of genocide.
At least, this provides a nice definition of diversity: When I refuse to shake hands with a woman in an official function on the grounds that – as a female creature – she too much below me for this to be acceptable, that’s discrimination and when an Arab does that, well, that’s just his culture[*]. Diversity indeed.
As recently seen in the USA, with the story with the outlawed pride flag, the porkressives will vehemently defend this obvious contradiction until it – to their utmost surpise – hits them themselves the moment they find out that it’s just their culture becomes much more imposing once it’s the majority culture.
[*] One more twist for the fun of it: When muslims from Afghanistan do this in their own country, it’s again evil discrimination. Gotta find a way to convert the enormous amount of energy the woketards spend on contradicting themselves to electricity. Net Zero achieved at zero cost!
Rioting in France and it looks like the muzzies. The largest library in Marseille containing works from medieval times has been burned.
It has to be said, though, that France’s problems with Muslims are of France’s own making. This is less an international Muslim extremism issue and more a serious domestic problem going back decades.
https://m.facebook.com/100090496391739/posts/pfbid0bxzQAmyMv8W1YP5itxdGQvY7NBgHX95ZyeacCVHWNRiNisE53zU4UmcUbqp2vWQ6l/?wtsid=rdr_0y0zSwskCKL8P
Watch this.
OMG! But this is where it all gets a bit wooly and unclear. That Muslim dude could say that due to his right to ”freedom of speech” he should be able to go round and tell women to cover up. But due to my rights as a citizen I should be able to report him to the police for harassment and bullying. So what to do? Remember the saying people on here are so fond of repeating when it doesn’t apply to them; ”Offense is taken not given.” So by that logic, that woman in the clip had no right to be offended then did she? And she probably wouldn’t get any joy from the police if she did report him. If it was me I’d give him a right bloody ear full and then we’d be squits! lol
That Muslim dude could say that due to his right to ”freedom of speech” he should be able to go round and tell women to cover up.
There’s again the distinction between informational and functional speech: Due to his freedom speech, he has a right to hold public speeches trying to convince women that they should really cover up. That’s informational speech and thus, free. But going round and actually asking them to do so is functional speech, ie, it’s meant to cause a real-world effect on something other than the opinions of the listeners.
We are kufars. Infidels. Apes and pigs. The Mahometans view us as inferiors. They burnt the massive Roman-Christian library at Alexandria in the 640s – thousands of books gone. They have burned libraries in Lebanon, Syria, and just about everywhere else in the Muhammedan world.
I saw the video of this. It’s completely disrespectful of the kid. He probably views her as a mere ”infidel”. The irony being, if the headmistress were to visit his Muslim country of origin she would need to adhere to cultural norms, such as covering herself, and if she didn’t she’d be in for a world of harassment. But what I don’t understand is why this is just getting coverage now. Look at all the Muslim immigrants everywhere. The more diverse cities in the UK for example. There must be many incidences of something similar cropping up but perhaps never caught on camera? This kid can’t be the only one to openly snub and disrespect a woman who is senior to him.
Look at the state of Sweden, as an example. In Malmo it’s reported that Swedish is now a minority language. Will Swedes end up a minority race in their own country??
”Righard’s report also confirms what was once dismissed as right-wing rhetoric and a conspiracy theory. In this European city, the Great Replacement, which describes the demographic displacement of Europeans with non-Europeans in their native countries, is statistically undeniable and ongoing.
Righard’s research is expected to be used in Malmö’s integration work, meaning there is a strong possibility that her recommendations could actually be implemented. The report shows that Swedish is a minority language and is therefore no longer proposed as the main language of instruction. If the city’s students were taught in their native tongue, “the school would do better,” the report published on Dec. 27 argues.
The data from this particular report shows that major cities such as Malmö are already tipping towards ethnic Swedes becoming a clear minority in the future — unless drastic action is taken to halt or even reverse mass immigration.”
https://rmx.news/sweden/majority-of-malmo-children-are-immigrants-leading-to-call-for-arabic-schools/
Parts of London now have Muslim patrols spouting Sharia law.
https://m.facebook.com/100090496391739/posts/pfbid0bxzQAmyMv8W1YP5itxdGQvY7NBgHX95ZyeacCVHWNRiNisE53zU4UmcUbqp2vWQ6l/?wtsid=rdr_0y0zSwskCKL8P
The Great Replacement is just a funky name for something that’s entirely unavoidable. Simplisitically put, muslim women get children, European women get contraceptive pills instead (so that they can work). Hence, every European country with a sizable muslim minority will eventually become an ethnically Arabic country with traces of the original population left in rural areas. That’s evolution at work: Reproduce or die out.
You forgot the bit where most women are on the pill ( or other contraceptives ) then come off it when they want to start a family. The main difference between us and women married to domineering misogynists who view their wives as property/brood mares is that we are in control of our own ability to reproduce if and when we choose. And I know it may come as a surprise to you but women have been simultaneously having kids and working since time immemorial.
I didn’t forget anything. Birth rates for all European peoples are below the reproduction rate (as far as I know) and the culprit (or cause) here is effective chemical contraceptives which became generally availble around the middle of the last century. And just listen to your own language: Brood mares. One could hardly word Mothers are to be hated and despised! more succinctly. Or, paraphrasing an American I once knew, Women raising children are just too lazy to work.
Also, please note that I’m just describing the situation as it is. Muslims value motherhood. So-called Westerners don’t. Hence, slow-motion muslim takeover of Europe. No conspircay here.
”Muslims value motherhood. So-called Westerners don’t.” Could you generalize just a bit more do you think? What a shame that a woman having bodily autonomy and full control over her reproductivity should get your back up. An important distinction to be made is duty vs choice, and we ”so-called Westerners” have the basic liberty of enjoying the latter as opposed to being saddled with the former. How many Muslim women do you think actually have a choice in the matter if they are living by the teachings of the Koran?
”Brood mares” is in reference to cultures where females are valued only for their ability to be fertile and reproduce, which you know fine well that I was referring to given the context. If you’re in an argumentative mood or are feeling resentful towards women because we get to make choices you don’t agree with, or for whatever reason, then I can’t help you.
Oh and regarding your ”mothers are to be hated and despised”, you’re also forgetting that I am a mother so your bizarre attempt at making any sort of point just sounds patently ridiculous.
I’m still not forgetting anything. I’ve just pointed out some simple facts. And I’ve highlighted one of the really repellent propaganda and actually even very misogynistic propaganda phrases you’ve been taught and you thus readily discharge upon people suspected of reproductional heresy without even thinking about it (apparently, as your statements doesn’t really make much sense in the context of my original comment). I don’t know of any such cultures. This doesn’t mean they don’t exist. But certainly not among the people who (paraphrasing a Turkish guy whose name I’ve forgotten) make statements like “Due to our intact families and healthy women, we’ll eventually conquer Germany”. You call that bodily autonomy (constant medication seems very autonomous to me …). Muslim leaders call this sickness and are glad that muslim woman have – by and large – not (yet) succumbed to it.
OTOH, that’s an observation by a mostly disinterested bystander. Happy extinction.
I think it’s a matter for regret that we’re not replacing ourselves. For sure contraception has a lot to do with it but I’d say it’s 50-50 between men and women in terms of responsibility for the falling birthrate. I’d like to see the rate climb again, but equally I’m hesitant to suggest state meddling in this and equally hesitant to tell others how many children they should have. I hope it stabilises.
Most Muslims aren’t Arabs. Including most Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa.
In the UK Muslim Arabs are hugely outnumbered by Muslim South Asians.
…and with the next breath some prat will be complaining about inequality of job opportunities and exclusion of minorities from society.
Yet further benefits from unlimited immigration and multi-culturalism. Both promoted by Blair, both in the UK and internationally, and enthusiastically endorsed by Cameron-Clegg (the two headed numpties).
Jihad and Taqiyya are two terms in Islam that people should study.
The fundamental flaw in most of the arguementz and discussions here is that you are all arguing from a non Muslim mindset and are ignorant of the basic beliefs and aims of the religion and it’s laws.
Sharia is not optional; it is prescribed for believers (5:48). Although Muslims as individuals often decide which parts to follow or ignore, the Quran (33:36) says that it is not fitting for a believer to choose for themselves (i.e., disregard) any matter already decided by Allah.
Likewise, a government that limits God’s Law in any way is an enemy of Allah and must be fought. The establishment of Sharia is a fundamental objective of every Islamic terror group. Once an Islamic state is in place, the Quran (9:29) and Sharia (o9.8) make it mandatory for Muslims to fight those Jews and Christians who will not convert or accept inferior status.
If you study what is happening from an Islamic mindset then all will become clear.
Here’s an introduction on it!
Lloyd De Jongh: “Ibn Taymiyyah: Jihad Explained” on Podbean, check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-wqsga-7f6c8bf
Deception, Lying
and Taqiyya
Does Islam permit Muslims to lie?
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other… unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences” or “gain the upper-hand over an enemy.”
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the Shia name). These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.
I lived and worked in Leicester for over 20 years.
I found Hindus to be far less honest than Muslims: it’s as if Hindus feel physical pain if forced to tell the truth. More recent experience with Indian call centres has only confirmed my views.
And my experience confirms that Sikhs are by and large very decent and honourable.
I don’t think people should write “the Prophet Mohammed”. A prophet is merely someone who believes, or at least claims, that they have a message from a deity. In this respect Mohammed is no different from Isiah, Ezekiel or any other old testament prophet. Indeed there is no good evidence that he’s any different to all the self proclaimed messiahs and prophets that have existed down the ages. Using a capital P conveys the idea that Mohammed was somehow special or different to any other prophet, implies he was the one and only genuine and elevates Islam above other religions. The correct way to refer to the founder of Islam is “a prophet called Mohammed”.
“Douglas Murray had the foresight to formulate the following in his 2017 book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, which accurately describes what is happening in Norway and many other European countries:”
I have a Douglas Murray book right here, though I can’t be bothered reading it yet. But the elephant in the room is, 9f we want to “preserve our values”, we need to stop killing millions of our own. To adapt a phrase, unborn children are children; unborn people are people. Statistician Patrick Carroll has argued convincingly that pro-life Ireland has been less dependent on migrations because of their better demographics.
It’s only going to get worse across Europe as the Muslim “enrichment” we are suffering from grows ever bigger through chain immigration; the bogus asylum process and their larger birthrate.
I dread to think what Europe will be like in 30 years time ….. which will just about be the time I expect to be “checking out.”