{"id":1538347,"date":"2022-07-04T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538347"},"modified":"2022-07-04T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:05:00","slug":"j-k-rowling-targeted-with-pipe-bomb-threat-from-trans-flag-social-media-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-k-rowling-targeted-with-pipe-bomb-threat-from-trans-flag-social-media-account\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling Targeted With &#8220;Pipe Bomb&#8221; Threat from Trans Flag Social Media Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj-k-rowling-targeted-with-pipe-bomb-threat-from-trans-flag-social-media-account%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A social media post by an account with a transgender flag in its name appearing to threaten or encourage the bombing of trans-critical author J.K Rowling\u2019s home has generated significant outcry online.<\/p>\n<p>Outcry and calls for police intervention have emerged after trans-critical author J.K. Rowling appeared to be threatened by a social media account with a transgender flag in its name.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The account @fuckfinegael, which has since been taken down, appeared to have posted an image of a pipe bomb being directed towards an image of J.K. Rowling, along with an image of an <em>Improvised Munitions Handbook<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1543001990942318594\">post<\/a> by the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author detailing the contents of the now-deleted tweet, the original image posted by the account also included her home address, something that had already previously been circulated online by hardline pro-trans activists:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My family\u2019s address (covered), a pipe bomb and a picture of a bomb-making handbook. The account remains active, naturally. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeKind?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BeKind<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IoEkHzpmpd\">pic.twitter.com\/IoEkHzpmpd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1543001990942318594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy family\u2019s address (covered), a pipe bomb and a picture of a bomb-making handbook,\u201d the<em> Harry Potter<\/em> author \u2014 a prominent critic of militant transgenderism in the UK \u2014 wrote online, adding the hashtag \u201c#BeKind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/news\/gardai-yet-to-receive-complaint-after-jk-rowling-allegedly-threatened-by-irish-twitter-account-41809882.html\">according<\/a> to the <em>Irish Independent<\/em>, while the social media account which appears to have posted the image allegedly originates in Ireland \u2014 the account\u2019s handle seemingly references Ireland\u2019s ruling Fine Gael party \u2014 the country\u2019s police claimed on Sunday that they have yet to receive any complaint regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">J.K. Rowling Says She\u2019s \u2018Received So Many Death Threats\u2019 After Family\u2019s Address Posted on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GBiO1DKUUE\">https:\/\/t.co\/GBiO1DKUUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463201932328071169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While it remains unclear how real the apparent threat made by the social media account is, the incident is far from the first time that activists tying themselves to transgenderism have targeted Rowling.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rowling herself, she received a significant number of death threats shortly after being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/22\/j-k-rowling-receives-many-death-threats-after-home-doxed\/\">doxed<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which involves leaking a person\u2019s private information online \u2014 by radicals within the transgender movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them,\u201d Rowling previously wrote online, emphasising that she has not \u201cstopped speaking out\u201d because of them.<\/p>\n<p>However, the author noted that others in Britain had received similar threats from transgender militants with little recourse due to lacking the significant social platform she has garnered through her writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of these women are protected in the way I am,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey and their families have been put into a state of fear and distress for no other reason than that they refuse to uncritically accept that the socio-political concept of gender identity should replace that of sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend was reprimanded for supporting a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jk_rowling<\/a> tweet reading &#8220;War is Peace. 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The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman&#8221; after Conservative MP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrispinBlunt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CrispinBlunt<\/a> complaind <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e1oQKmbWX9\">https:\/\/t.co\/e1oQKmbWX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1502388899292852229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em>Follow Peter Caddle on Twitter:<\/em>\u00a0<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peter_caddle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@Peter_Caddle<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/em>\u00a0<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Breitbart London<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social media post by an account with a transgender flag in its name appearing to threaten or encourage the bombing of trans-critical author J.K Rowling\u2019s home has generated significant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}