Leprechaun comments

“Using religious symbols like crosses, lighting candles, putting up Christmas trees, singing religious songs, sending C Christmas greetings… are against Islamic faith,” Sounds just like the UK

Amazing effort by Japan. No matter who wins the World Cup, Japan should be considered the team of the tournament.

How can Asia and Africa - hardly soccer powerhouses - dictate to the rest of the football world that Blatter (a weak president if not as corrupt as the others) be re-elected for another four years? Beats me

This particular issue just won't go away until Japan issues a direct apology for the atrocities that went on in and before WWII. Who is Abe trying to please by refusing to go the whole way? Is it a bunch of conservative old timers? I certainly don't think that Japanese young people wish this poor relationship with Sth. Korea and China to continue.

Perhaps a life sentence would be a deterrent to future jihadists. The prison inmates will perform their own justice and the outcome will be far less preferable than an injection.