Putin on terrorism: 'To forgive them is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me' (UPDATED)

[Turborama]

Source: The Straits Times (Singapore)

Known for his hardline stance and strong public remarks, Russian President Vladimir Putin's latest quotable quote has been making the rounds on social media.

A tweet by Ms Remi Maalouf, a news anchor with television channel Russia Today, highlights Mr Putin's colourful take on terrorism: "To forgive them is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me."



In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks on Nov 13 which killed at least 129 people, Russia and France agreed to coordinate their military and security services against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Syria.

Mr Putin, speaking to his top military officials, had vowed merciless retaliation for the attacks, as warplanes from both countries unleashed bombs on the ISIS stronghold of Raqa earlier this week.

"It's necessary to establish direct contact with the French and work with them as allies," he said.

Read more: http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/putin-on-terrorism-to-forgive-them-is-up-to-god-but-to-send-them-to-him-is-up-to-me

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Turns out the Russia Today news anchor used a fake quote and Faux followed suit...

American broadcaster Fox News has fallen foul of a fake quote doing the rounds on social media today.

The TV channel mistakenly attributed a line from the film ‘Man on Fire’, spoken by actor Denzel Washington, to Vladimir Putin in the furore over Islamic State.

A Fox journalist wrongly claimed that Putin had said of IS militants: "To forgive the terrorists is up to God but to send them to him is up to me."

In bitter unintended irony, the reporter wrote of the falsely attributed statement: "I love these quotes from him. They’re both awesome and hysterical. He’s a world leader who is really a movie character..."

She credited a Russia Today news anchor, Remi Maalouf, as the source of the information.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/18/fox-news-fail-vladimir-putin-quote-russian_n_8592496.html

[trusty elf]

1. ....

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[Buzz Clik]

19. "Do Not Start At Rats to Nod."

Hm. A palindrome for the sake of just having one?

[trusty elf]

22. Yep, completely gratuitous. eom

[47of74]

24. Yeah pretty much.

[Metric System]

2. Millions of Republicans just climaxed reading this.

[Turborama]

3. !

[underpants]

4. Yes I can see the FB posts .... coming.... Now

[tanyev]

7. Yep, I don't understand why they keep whining about needing someone strong enough to stand up

to him when they all have a giant crush on him.

[Buzz Clik]

18. my thought exactly.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Sounds like Putin is channelling Arnaud Amaury:"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."

Often credited with the paraphrased, "Kill 'em all. Let God sort it out."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Amalric
Arnaud Amaury or Arnaud Amalric (died 1225) was a Cistercian abbot who took a prominent role in the Albigensian Crusade. He is most remembered for allegedly advising a soldier, who was worrying about killing orthodox Catholics along with the heretics during the sack of the Cathar stronghold of Béziers, Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. ("Kill them. For the Lord knows those that are His own.&quot

[7962]

6. Gen Patton: "May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t."

The Russians are not like us with regard to bombing; they dont really care about collateral damage.
We'll see soon enough if this still holds true

[ozone_man]

29. Except the U.S. hasn't been trying to get rid of ISIS

who they helped create. They only are trying to keep them in check, as they fight against Assad, with the hopes of destroying the Iran, Iraq, Hezbollah axis.
The Russians on the other hand, are trying to destroy ISIS, along with other terrorist groups.
Unfortunately for France, they also reap what they have sown, and they have been part of the sowing.

[GOLGO 13]

8. We said such thing in the Marines as well.

Got no problem with this.

[hollowdweller]

9. he wants too shoot them with a bow, while riding a horse without a shirt

[MosheFeingold]

10. Very Russian approach to war

They've always had this tendency, but WWII (which was WAY worse for the Russians than anyone) really made an indelible mark on the Russian soul and Putin grew up in a still-rubble-strewn country, so he is close to the apex of that mindset.

It will be all-out war --- "make the rubble bounce" I believe was the Soviet answer to the question of whether to continue bombardment of a German town that was resisting. They just get to a point and then act like a pissed-off bear that is their symbol.

They've had their own problems with radical Muslims in Chechnya, and they used this approach there.

Sad thing is, all-out war works, in its own twisted way.

[KingCharlemagne]

11. "The death of a single person is a tragedy, the deaths of

Millions a statistic."

~Stalin

[Turborama]

13. About that Chechnya "problem"...

[7962]

30. "...all-out war works, in its own twisted way" Yes, and thats why

we havent totally WON one SINCE WW2. Sure we defeat the enemy on the battlefields, but we dont FINISH them off. Total destruction is the only way to break their back

[itcfish]

12. Somebody else said this!

I read this quote months ago! I just can't remember who said it.

[PaddyIrishman]

14. Curtis LeMay is credited with it

Developer of the Strategic Air Command, Gen. Curtis LeMay, provided many enjoyable (if not apocryphal) quotes, such as at a Senate hearing when asked why, with already enough nuclear bombs to reduce the Soviet Union to cinders, he still wanted more nuclear weapons, LeMay replied, “I want to see the cinders dance.”

[renegade000]

15. Is he gonna "smoke em out" too?

I don't know, I guess I just prefer leaders that don't engage in macho preening.

But there does unfortunately seem to be a market for that...

[Myrina]

16. Regurgitated Palin: "Kill 'em all & let God sort 'em out".

Ugh.

[uhnope]

17. Was he barechested when he said it?

How do you say "bring em on" in Russian? Or "mission accomplished"? Or "we had to destroy the village in order to save the village"?

[lanlady]

20. Tsar Vova really wants those sanctions lifted--

--so he can go back to terrorizing the people of Ukraine.

What a thug.

[Darb]

21. Very Bushian.

The Russian people would be wise to see how our numbskulls that embraced Bushian logic brought us to the edge of collapse. I look forward to their coming to reason. Hopefully it will be before their economic collapse.

[Aristus]

23. That's a very Russian thing to say.

There's a Russian legend of a werewolf who was a nobleman named Igor Malikov. He and his shape-shifting servants terrorized the district where he lived until he was finally hunted down in human form and killed by a group of Cossacks.

Malikov begged for mercy. The captain of the Cossacks replied as he drew his pistol and cocked it: "Mercy? You can expect mercy from The Almighty. All you can expect from me is justice."

[Ghost Dog]

27. Cossacks? And/or Eastern Ukrainian...

..During the Russian Civil War, Don and Kuban Cossacks were the first nations to declare open war against the Bolsheviks. By 1918, Cossacks declared the complete independence of their nations and formed the independent states, the Ukrainian State, the Don Republic, and the Kuban People's Republic. The Cossack troops formed the effective core of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and Cossack republics became centers for the Anti-Bolshevik White movement. With the victory of the Red Army, the Cossack lands were subjected to Decossackization and the man-made famine of 1932–33 (Holodomor). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Cossacks made a systematic return to Russia. Many took an active part in Post-Soviet conflicts and Yugoslav Wars. In Russia's 2010 Population Census, Cossacks have been recognized as an ethnicity.[18] There are Cossack organizations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, and the United States.[19][20][21]...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks

[Aristus]

28. The legend dates from Tsarist Russia.

n/t.

[47of74]

25. Very nice, Putie...

Put it back in your pants now you tin plated despot with delusions of godhood.

[tblue37]

26. Actually, that's a fairly clever line. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. The quote is fake and the 'journalist' just admitted it

https://twitter.com/RemiMaalouf/status/666972960406814721

[Turborama]

32. A news anchor from Russia Today used a fake quote?

Even funnier is, Faux used it as well...

American broadcaster Fox News has fallen foul of a fake quote doing the rounds on social media today.

The TV channel mistakenly attributed a line from the film ‘Man on Fire’, spoken by actor Denzel Washington, to Vladimir Putin in the furore over Islamic State.

A Fox journalist wrongly claimed that Putin had said of IS militants: "To forgive the terrorists is up to God but to send them to him is up to me."

In bitter unintended irony, the reporter wrote of the falsely attributed statement: "I love these quotes from him. They’re both awesome and hysterical. He’s a world leader who is really a movie character..."

She credited a Russia Today news anchor, Remi Maalouf, as the source of the information.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/18/fox-news-fail-vladimir-putin-quote-russian_n_8592496.html