巴黎恐怖攻擊 (27)

Paris attacks: Blindfolded Muslim man asks people to 'show him trust with a hug' after shootings

Onlookers are reduced to tears by the man's gesture at the Place de la République

Thursday 19 November 2015

Alexandra Sims

A Muslim man stood blindfolded in the center of Paris asking mourners to embrace him as they gathered to commemorate the 129 victims killed in a series of terror attacks across the capital.

Footage posted online shows the man standing next to a homemade sign reading: “I’m Muslim, but I’m told that I’m a terrorist. I trust you, do you trust me? If yes, hug me.”

The video shows dozens of onlookers approaching the man and embracing him at the Place de la République, which has become a hub for homages and tributes.

One woman is moved to tears by the man's gesture and joins another onlooker to hug him.

After taking off his blindfold the man, who remains unnamed, said: “I would like to thank every one of you for giving me a hug. I did this to send a message to everyone.

“I am Muslim, but that doesn’t make me a terrorist. I never killed anybody. I can even tell you that last Friday was my birthday, but I didn’t go out.

“I deeply feel for all the victims’ families. I want to tell you that ‘Muslim’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘terrorist’.

“A terrorist is a terrorist, someone willing to kill another human being over nothing. A Muslim would never do that. Our religion forbids it.”

The video has been watched more than 10 million times on Facebook and received 150,000 likes in two days.  

Attacks by jihadist militants and a rise in refugees seeking help in Europe has led to renewed focus on Europe’s Muslim population.

Since the Paris attacks, committed by Isis militants and suicide bombers, the Slovakian Prime Minister claimed his country is “monitoring every Muslim,” while Poland has demanded security guarantees before accepting 

However, a survey of seven European countries last spring by the Pew Research Centre, found France has the most positive views on followers of Islam, with 74 per cent of people surveyed holding a favourable view of the Muslim community.

In Britain, an advert organised by the Muslim Council of Britainon behalf of more than 300 mosques and community groups said the "barbaric acts of [Isis] have no sanction in the religion of Islam, which forbids terrorism and the targeting of innocents."

The advert called on everyone to stand together to ensure communities were not turned against each another.

####http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-blindfolded-muslim-man-asks-people-to-show-him-trust-with-a-hug-after-shootings-a6740101.html

Structure of the Lead:
WHO      a Muslim man
WHAT    stood blindfolded
WHERE in the center of Paris
WHY    asking mourners to embrace him as they gathered to commemorate the 129 victims killed in a series of terror attacks across the capital.  
WHEN   not given
HOW     not given
Keyword:
1.mourner (n.)哀悼者
2.hub (n.)中心:樞紐
3.homage (n.)崇敬，敬意
4.tributes (n.)頌詞，禮物
5. jihadist militant聖戰激進分子
6.monitor (v.)監察，監視
7.barbaric (a)殘暴的，野蠻的
8.sanction (n.)制裁

Emoji (27)

Oxford’s 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji

Nov. 16, 2015 2:08 PM
By Katy Steinmetz 

Oxford Dictionaries made history on Monday by announcing that their “Word of the Year” would not be one of those old-fashioned, string-of-letters-type words at all. The flag their editors are planting to sum up who we were in 2015 is this pictograph, an acknowledgement of just how popular these pictures have become in our (digital) daily lives.

Although emoji have been a staple of texting teens for some time, emoji culture exploded into the global mainstream over the past year,” the company’s team wrote in a press release. “Emoji have come to embody a core aspect of living in a digital world that is visually driven, emotionally expressive, and obsessively immediate.”

Oxford University Press—which publishes both the august Oxford English Dictionary and the lower-brow, more-modern Oxford Dictionaries Online—partnered with keyboard-app company SwiftKey to determine which emoji was getting the most play this past year. According to their data, the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji, also known as LOL Emoji or Laughing Emoji, comprised nearly 20% of all emoji use in the U.S. and the U.K., where Oxford is based. The runner-up in the U.S., with 9% of usage, was this number.

Caspar Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, explained that their choice reflects the walls-down world that we live in. “Emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders,” he said in a statement. And their choice for the word of the year, he added, embodies the “playfulness and intimacy” that characterizes emoji-using culture.

Though this marks a historic moment of recognition for the pictures plastered throughout tweets and texts, Oxford has not added or defined any emoji in their actual databases. Nor, says a spokesperson for the publisher, do they have plans to do so at this point. The word emoji, however, has been in both the OED and Oxford Dictionaries Online since 2013.

Japanese telecommunications planner Shigetaka Kurita is credited with inventing these little images in 1999, taking the emoticons that had been gaining steam on the Internet to an iconic level. Inspired by comics and street signs, the name for the alphanumeric images comes from combining the Japanese words for picture (e-) and character (moji). “It’s easy to write them off as just silly little smiley faces or thumbs-up,” sociolinguist Ben Zimmer told TIME for a story on how emoji fit into humans’ long history of using pictures to communicate. “But there’s an awful lot of people who are very interested in treating them seriously.”


####http://time.com/4114886/oxford-word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/

Structure of the Lead:

  WHO         Oxford Dictionaries
  WHEN       on Monday
  WHAT       made history 
  HOW         announcing that their “Word of the Year” would not be one of those old-                        fashioned, string-of-letters-type words at all

 WHERE     not given
 WHY          not given

Keyword:
 1. staple (n.)訂書針,日常必需品

 2. mainstream (n.)主流
 3. press release 新聞稿
 4. comprise (v.)由...組成
 5. transcend (v.)超越,優於
 6. tweet(n.)用推特發的訊息
 7. linguistic (a.)語言的
 8. telecommunication (n.)電信
 9. iconic (a.)圖像的,肖像的