Yes, especially if you’re a fan of the ayatollahs (and others of a similar mindset) who condem someone to death/wish them ill because they don’t care for someone politically..or what they write, the cartoons they publish… :rolleyes:

Did any of my critics actually attempt to understand where I was coming from in that thread ? Anyhow… game over, let’s move on….;)

As for Ian Paisley, I was amazed at recent TV pictures of him and Martin McGuinness sitting side by side like old pals ‘down the boozer’. Is he going soft in his old age, or just winding down ahead of passing over the ‘family’ business to his son ? Whatever, he’s certainly a changed character from the one we became used to seeing in the 1970’s and 80’s when sectarianism, bigotry and violence were at their height in Northern Ireland.

I remember going on a school trip to Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park in 1981, when Pope John Paul II was on his UK visit. Ian Paisley and other unionist politicians had come over to picket the event, standing outside the park gates with their placards and banners condemning the catholic church and all it stood for. Unfortunately or not, Mr Paisley became synonomous with that kind of activity, especially in the Glasgow area which for many was/is a microcosm of the Northern Irish political/sectarian scene.