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.
The urgency of the unusual alliance was also due to Tuesday's revelation that ISIS was responsible for planting a homemade bomb that ripped apart a Russian passenger jet over Egypt on Oct 31.
That incident claimed the lives of all 224 people on board, most of whom were Russians returning home from a vacation.
Mr Putin responded by saying it was one of the bloodiest acts in modern Russian history, vowing that the effort to bring ISIS to justice would be relentless.
"We will search for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them," he added.
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
Read it from other website. Yes, yes, to what he said. I have more respect for him than the damn effeminate jiakliaobee so called pm of sinkingpore.
What happened to the russian plane incur his wrath.
The jiakliaobee asked us to be mentally prepared for terrorism. Shows his weak leedership. Pui! Damn shit ! Self proclaimed "aristocrat" seriously cmi.
Yesterday, Russian television news anchor Remi Maalouf tweeted:
#Putin : to forgive the terrorists is
ip to God but to send them to him is up to me #ISIS #Syria #Moscow
pic.twitter.com/hmTdvnb25C
— Remi Maalouf (@RemiMaalouf)
The too-good-to-be-true quote struck a chord with many in the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris. Among them was Fox News. Fox re-posted this content from a website called Barstool Sports, a reputable website that currently has other important news pieces at the top of its feed, such as “Better Know A Camel Toe” and “Guess that Ass“.
Remi Maalouf later revealed she had seen the quote posted on Facebook and then tweeted it. The quote might be fake, but the insight into how the media operates is quite genuine. I am not surprised this would fool a lot of people, but professional news organizations should know better because this isn’t the first time this fake quote has been falsely attributed to someone. All it took to know this was 10 seconds of Googling.
Did anyone really say this?
Probably not. Snopes.com has previously reported this quote being attributed to General Norman Schwarzkopf in 2001. He never had said it (until prompted to later during an interview, anyway). The quote famously appears in the 2004 film Man of Fire, said by Denzel Washington’s character:
Which should have made it a more obvious fake. It is not certain where this quote originated. Snopes speculates it dates back to the 80’s:
It’s possible the current “arrange the meeting” quote is a misremembering of a pithy saying common to ROTC training in the 1980s: “Your enemy’s duty is to die in defense of his country. Your duty is to see that your enemy does his duty.”
This will almost surely pop up again, attributed to new generations of perceived badasses.
http://www.skepticink.com/incredulous/2015/11/18/fox-news-twitterdom-and-social-media-duped-by-fake-putin-quote/
That strong word that you will put in your mind and never will forget.
Never fact-check. But then thats Fox News for you lol.