23 Mar 2021 19:59:40
RIP Kamil Thoughts and prayers for his family 💚
Cetic fan murdered on Sunday night, really effing sad that someone lost their life because of the football team they support. Absolute mutants who done this.
23 Mar 2021 20:40:59
Where was that royjac. Utter disgrace. Shame on them. RIP KAMIL💚.
23 Mar 2021 21:04:51
Was Easterhouse in Glasgow Paul.
23 Mar 2021 21:41:22
Absolutely horrendous.
Tragic.
Words fail me.
How many times.
‘Catholics will be shot’ sprayed on the walls in Bo’ness.
I’m happy to oppose racism every day of the week but what about we discuss institutionalised anti-Catholicism and sectarianism in Scotland.
23 Mar 2021 22:19:55
I wish they would JFP but it seems to me to be so far down their list it might as well be on another page.
If it was anti semitic, Islamaphobic, any other form of racism or bigitory against any group, anything in the LBGT arena or anything whatsoever that's deemed non PC then it's in every media outlet and the Politicians and Cops will be all over it, BUT don't ever mention CATHOLICISM that's taboo.
23 Mar 2021 22:25:47
That is the whole problem JFP; This country (whether UK or Scotland) is steeped in anti-Catholic sectarianism from the monarchy, through Parliament (s) , Establishments, Businesses, and even Law and Order.
Every form of discrimination from Homophobia, Islamophobia, Sexism, Disability, Anti-Semitism and Racism have all been 'Top Of The Pops' rightly so. However, Vile Religious Sectarianism has been conveniently and absurdly married to Republicanism as an equal opportunity to beat us with the same stick, while condoning and encouraging religious intolerance, where hate-crime doesn't count?
24 Mar 2021 09:10:46
A couple of weeks ago the chief executive of a company posted we don’t employ Gays, Blacks or Catholics and to my knowledge he was never prosecuted.
24 Mar 2021 10:22:14
Pedro OAB and Oldkilly
You may have heard me mentioning previously that I went to a debate in Edinburgh University when Neil Lennon was receiving bullets in the post and death threats etc. The subject was ‘Does Scotland have a problem with institutionalised anti-Catholicism? The overwhelming opinion was that the answer to that question was an emphatic ‘Yes. ’
The debate was attended by Professor Tom Devine who summarised by stating that the problem was twofold ‘the TIM was increasingly educated and no longer willing to keep his head down' and that this threatened a disenfranchised underclass living in bastions of loyalism in West Lothian, Lanarkshire and Glasgow whose only identity is based on commitment to crown, country and anti-Catholicism.
This murder is the most recent of many I can think of two other high profile cases previously in Bridgeton and Blantyre and there have been many others. Where is the political condemnation? The issue is the elephant in the room in Scotland and needs put on the table and discussed. The fact it hasn’t to date is the reason why the north of Ireland in my opinion has made more progress in many respects than Scotland.
Given that in recent weeks it would appear that if loyalist bigots choose to break the law in sufficient numbers there is not a lot the authorities are able to do about it in light of Police Scotland’s inability to effectively police celebrations in George Square during a global C.V. not to mention facilitating their march from Govan is a serious cause for concern.
The call from Celtic FC demanding that the clubs property be protected and complaint against Police actions by Glasgow City Council is alarming. This is Scotland 2021 not Derry or West Belfast 1968 although recent events are making we wonder.
24 Mar 2021 12:24:49
The word sectarianism is a nonsense. It’s racism.
24 Mar 2021 15:38:01
JFP, I wasn't aware that you had attended the debate that you mention and unfortunately, nor am I surprised at the answer to the question being Yes, at that debate.
Far greater minds than my own have toiled with this question for decades in our peculiar part of this tiny country that we live in.
As you've mentioned, Sir Tom Devine, the multiple award winning and probably the foremost living Scottish historian, who's knowledge and qualifications to both discuss and debate this subject are unsurpassed, is still struggling to get his head around it.
Like the majority, I don't have the answers but I do believe, through experience and observation, that the issue of anti Catholic sentiment in our country is as strong today as it was 100 years ago and amazingly, the Scottish Government, Police Scotland and others in a position to affect positive change seem to be uninterested or unwilling to do anything about it.
I'm almost 50 years old, my Mother and Father (God rest them) were good, working class people, born and raised in the West of Scotland, my Grandmothers were Scottish and my Grandfathers were Irish (Donegal and Galway) to be precise.
My generation, thankfully, was rarely asked at an interview, 'which school did you go to'?
Nevertheless, I will always be proud of my heritage but continue to be dismayed at the ignorant hoard of bigoted, anti Catholic individuals, who somehow believe that the bile they spew is acceptable in a modern democracy, under the protection of the very establishment that should exist to protect us all, still believe that they are 'the PEEPUL'.