New Mohammed Cartoon in French paper
Posted by Moonage on 08 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues
Quoting BareknucklePolitics via Volokh:
A French satirical weekly reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday and published one of its own on its front page, further angering Muslim groups which say the caricatures are blasphemous.
French Muslim organizations tried to prevent Charlie Hebdo reprinting the 12 cartoons, which were first published by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, but a court rejected their suit on Tuesday on a technicality.
The first round of murders and destruction I blame squarely on the intolerant Muslims. This round, I blame the Charlie Hebdo and the French media. They knew the kind of reaction this was causing and did it anyway. If they had waited a few months until things cooled off, the message would have been exactly the same. They were just too arrogant to think someone else might be offended enough to stand in the way of THEIR right to say whatever they want, whenever they want. Sometimes, that’s just not the proper thing to do. Charlie Hebdo should have put concern for common man over personal gratification, but cojuldn’t. Although the pen is supposedly mightier than the sword, the sword can do a LOT of damage in the meantime. And, in the case, the same pen used six months later would have been just as mighty. That was stupid and arrogant of Charlie Hebdo. Just plain stupid. He should be held personally responsible for the problems that ensue. As it is, I’m sure he’ll just enjoy the limelight stupid media people always get just for being stupid.
- Technorati Charlie Hebdo, Mohammed Cartoons
3 Comments »
on 08 Feb 2006 at 4:20 pm 1.American Phoenix
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While the West recognizes the right to freedom of thought and expression, it should not follow that there is a right to offend people who hold their religious beliefs dearly. In order to coexist, there must be a climate of mutual respect and sometimes, although not always, that means not publishing such cartoons because such exasperated criticisms and derision of others manifest a lack of mutual respect. Sometimes it’s just better to remain silent and wait for the right time, place and manner to voice one’s objection. One would have to believe that there are better ways of objecting to Islamic extremism than to take Islam’s traditions of not graphically representing Mohammed and throwing it back in the faces of Muslims. I would like to think that these newspaper editors/publishers merely lack imagination when it comes to creative writing, but this is just disrespectful for the sake of being disrespectful. This doesn’t excuse the violent protests or the damage that’s been done to the Danish and Norweigian embassies. But needless provocation is also stupid.
on 08 Feb 2006 at 5:51 pm 2.Moonage
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I’d give that comment a major rec, but they don’t do that here. You’ll just have to accept my sincere thanks and just know I agree 100% with your comment ( again ).
on 09 Feb 2006 at 12:50 am 3.American Phoenix
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Allow me to give credit where credit is due: I was mostly paraphrasing Pope Benedict XVI. I thought his comments were right on the mark as well.