Free speech rocks. لن استسلم
Edit: Viola! I found an image of the actual Hebdo Mo toons page in full:
Click here to read the Google translation of the (French publication) La Figaro’s report.
If any violence occurs in the light of the publishing of these Hebdo Mo Toons, it will prove (once again) one thing and one thing only. There are Muslims who are not fit to live in civilized society, since they do NOT respect basic FREEDOMS. If we all thought and acted like frothing muslims over such things as cartoon offense, chaos would reign. If we all bowed as they demand of us, the west would be transformed into a cluster of Islamic hell holes resembling the 7th century.
As I stated during the Terry Jones Quran burning controversy:
Here’s the scoop people. Even if not one American (or any non-Muslim for that matter) [ever] spoke out against Islam, it would remain hell bent on our destruction.
Freedom is the ultimate enemy of Islam.
Our very existence as a free republic, with a demographic majority of non-Muslims offends Islam. No [other] provocation is necessary.
Not standing up to the Muslim bullies is fueling their fire. Their goal is to have the entire globe submit to Islam. We need a united front. Not yellow bellied, weak kneed appeasing cowards bowing down or pandering apologists. Or the submission will continue down a path that, trust me, no matter how liberal you are –you do not want to take.
It is a dead end road.
Be warned.Truth is our ultimate weapon.
Wield it.
The new tolerance is to be tolerant of the intolerant. And I’ll have none of it.
If you are aware of any other publications that have published the toons let me know. Islam versus Europe has translations of the captions.
Charlie Hebdo’s website has been down since last night. Server overload or DDoS attack …shrug.
Update:
(Reuters) –”We have the impression that it’s officially allowed for Charlie Hebdo to attack the Catholic far-right but we cannot poke fun at fundamental Islamists,” said editor Stephane Charbonnier, who drew the front-page cartoon.
“It shows the climate – everyone is driven by fear, and that is exactly what this small handful of extremists who do not represent anyone want – to make everyone afraid, to shut us all in a cave,” he told Reuters.
BINGO! We have a winner!
Update 2: As a relevant aside, Jyllands-Posten’s Fleming Rose on why he published the now infamous Danish Mo Toons
Has Jyllands-Posten insulted and disrespected Islam? It certainly didn’t intend to. But what does respect mean? When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place.
But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.
Update 3:
When a publisher of
CARTOONS
requires police protection, our world is seriously effed up.
Update 4:
(NY Times) –
Mr. Charbonnier said the weekly published the cartoons in defense of freedom of the press, adding that the images “would shock only those who wanted to be shocked.”
Gérard Biard, the magazine’s editor in chief, said: “We’re a newspaper that respects French law. Now, if there’s a law that is different in Kabul or Riyadh, we’re not going to bother ourselves with respecting it.”
This week as every other week, Mr. Biard insisted, “We’ve simply commented on the news.” The caricatures are meant to satirize the video that has stirred violence across the Muslim world, he said, and to denounce that violence as absurd.
“What are we supposed to do when there’s news like this?” Mr. Biard asked. “Are we supposed to not do that news?”
……
In an editorial on Wednesday, Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record, defended the magazine’s right to publish what it pleases, within the limits of French law. But it called the most recent caricatures “in poor taste, or even appalling” and questioned the “sense of responsibility of their authors and editors.”Mr. Charbonnier [Charlie Hebdo's editorial director] held firm.
“I’m sorry for the people who are shocked when they read Charlie Hedbo,” Mr. Charbonnier said. “But let them save 2.50 euros and not read it. That’s the only thing I have to say.
“They can’t hold us responsible for the closure of the embassies, they can’t hold us responsible for the violence and the deaths,” he said. “We’re not provoking anything.” Religious radicals can use “any pretext to start the fire,” he said.
Original image (now replaced in update) via Blazing Cat Fur
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Previously:
Round Two: French Mag ‘Charlie Hebdo’ To Publish New Mo Toons Wednesday Sept 19, 2012
Also see:
Obama’s Sharia Brownshirts Strike At Midnight
Video: US Embassy Cairo, Egypt Muslim Cleric Tears Bible Apart “Next Time I’ll Urinate On It” –Stands By While Cohort Burns It (September 2012)
Quran Burning Controversy an Exercise in Selective Outrage
[...] The New (Racy) Charlie Hebdo French Muhammad Cartoons Have Arrived! [...]
Anything that ridicules that ridiculous Prophet Muhammad is worth approval worldwide.
Religion is funny, religious people are either stupid, ignorant or crazy, and regarding Muslims, all 3
MORE cartoons please, Don’t stop now when the world is presently laughing at ridiculous religious beliefs.
Oh and please put a red nose on Muhammad, because clowns are funny.
kimsland
Ask and you shall receive. There is a red clown nose photoshop of the Mo turban bomb toon here: http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/11/02/islam-rage-in-france-satirical-newspaper-firebombed-after-naming-mo-as-editor-in-chief/
I am an Arab and a Muslim and I don’t mind the publication of prophet Mohammed in anyway that will entertain the public.
Please do not put all Arabs under one hood. The cry is only coming from political and radical Islamic elements, for which most of us here in the Arab world are already sick of them.
The irony is that the radical elements have been enjoying a mysterious political and military support from the west, for reasons I can not fathom.
Ms. Asma Al Yamani
Political Writer,
Almasdaronline.Net
Sana’a, Yemen
From a neutral standpoint as an Indian Hindu (or maybe not so neutral – as the Radical Muslims probably got a bigger beef against us than the West) – these cartoons seem in bad taste considering today’s environment. Freedom of Speech is an essential right – but showing restraint in the usage of this right won’t hurt anyone. The majority of the Muslims might be OK with these cartoons. These cartoons will only give the radical fringe an excuse to radicalize other not so radical Muslims.
Further, Americans in particular seem to be confused between the concepts of Freedom of Speech and Political Correctness. If the same magazine carried black caricatures, proficient use of the ‘N’ word, make references to monkeys and slaves – will that still be touted as a great expression of freedom?
When a certain group is touchy about a topic, the decent thing to do is to leave it alone. It’s an effed-up world we are living in right now. No point effing it up more. This kind of stuff just pushes the two communities further apart. I feel it’s better to try to bring down the hatred and then maybe, just maybe, a few decades down the line, we’ll get to a place where everyone can have a jolly laugh about such things. But, as the world stands now, it just adds more fuel to the raging fire.
have’nt seen an episode of the boondocks yet have you? thugnificent released a new song called “nigga nigga nigga” give it a listen, its funny… almost as funny as what the muslims have done to their already tarnished and disliked image.
so throw another log on the burning muslim rage, i want them all so pissed off that they decide to meet their maker early if for no other reason than the world cant stand them any longer.
good muslim, bad muslim…..dont they all read & adhere to the same dimented book?
“good muslim, bad muslim…..dont they all read & adhere to the same dimented book”
Looks like this is also a radical and extremist board. I’ll excuse myself from here. No point in expecting a sensible discussion with extremists.
It is neither extremist nor radical to expose the extremist, radical Islam.
“But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy.”
In western societies, the “so-called” conspiracy theories, historical revisionism, historical negationism/denials are taboos too. You know what I am getting at ?
More hints : “Red Threat”, leftist leanings, napalm bombings, domino theory, “threat to our freedoms”, WMD, Helen Thomas, Iran & Israeli “nuclear ambiguity”, CIA coup d’etats & color revolutions, Saudi human rights & petro-dollars, human rights in China.
Oh we do self-censorships, character assasinations, collateral damages, Guantanamo detentions, “a few bad apples” or “survival of the fittest” or “world is better off” ?
We don’t even need to do rioting !
[...] Ironic Surrealism has a ton more on the comics. [...]
Because Charles hebdo’s point of view of Islam, hatred and black background of thinking prejudice. He is exercising and coercing his ill-beliefs to modulate and to coincidence the thoughts of others to the ill-ones he has, veiling his intents behind the expression of freedom. This ill using of such a freedom will be now circulated to shape the thoughts of others the like to; this is the dictatorship, shuefinism, and sadism in his realm of freedom. I believe that such a cartoonist is an empty balloon, add nothing to the peace-world value what a value such an act would serve humanity? Such an act would pour oil on fire.
1. If I deny in words the holocaust event, expressing my belief, this would be a crime in USA & Europe. Double standardizing to handle similar act.
2. If you denounce any of the Jew affairs, especially Israeli crimes in Palestine (Israel now). Then you’ll face an allegation and accusation of anti -Semitism.
Fawzi Said
Amman-Jordan
Response to “JOE MOMMA”, “velvethammer”, and “kimsland”: There are good and bad people, likewise, there are ignorant and intelligent people regardless of what type of society they prefer or where they feel at home.
We all are free to do as we wish. We all are free to feel however our hearts incline toward what is in front of us. Yet, they are always consequences that reach us – whether or not we seek them out or desire them. We have a role in choosing what type of world we live in, through our words, our actions, and their consequences.
If I deny the holocaust, then I’m simply pig stupid and mis-educated,
If I denounce Isreali foreign policy, It is my right to do so, it’;s appalling, but then they’re not the only ones with bad attitudes.
If I denounce Jews, Arabs, or Muslims, blacks, gays or women then I might be expected to justify my bigoted self in a court of law. I’d love to meet a gay, black transexual muslim, who wants to become an atheist. What a great conversation we could have. if only they weren’t terrified of being butchered.
If I denounce Mohammed, and take the mickey out of him, I am expressing my freedom of thought and expression about a fictional character from a 7th Century book who lots of people think lived in a cave and abused women.
I’m a free thinking, considerate, community spirited, home loving, man who loves life….but if anyone tells me what I should or shouldn’t think, I just laugh at them.
If you’re a muslim and you want to tell me what to think…go away and mind your own business. I’m not interested in your religion, your beliefs or your ideas, any more than you are interested in mine.
But there are too many people in this world denouncing jews, blacks, women, gays, arabs and muslims, and it’s about time they stopped being so damn childish, and focused on their own affairs, their families, friends, neighbours, communities and societies, put all their daft suppositions in the wastebin, move on, grow up and learn to love nature , life and everyone else’s mad ideas, as well as their crazed moon-worshipping lunatics from the 1st or 7th century and their despotic gods.
Honestly…there’s some weirdo’s out there, none half as weird as me, but i won’t threaten to kill you if you tell me so. I might even take an interest in your moon worshipping prophet, if you promise not to cut off my head if I say something rude about his testicles.
You know what? I will comment. Religion is the stupidity of man not having the free will to believe in himself, and therefore, there cannot be any defense of it. You know what? I’m tired of this. Blasphemy, tolerance, non tolerance, war, death, blah blah…Fuck it! I will not be tolerating of religion anymore. You know what? I do not even care if any gods exist. Why do you not move on??? Why do I have to listen to this shit almost every day and be awoken by a church bell? You know what? NO.