French President Jacques Chirac condemned "overt provocations" which could inflame passions. "
2007
The court followed the state attorney's reasoning that two of the three cartoons were not an attack on Islam, but on Muslim terrorists,
Cartoons were not an attack on Islam, but on Muslims terrorists
François Fillon, the prime minister, and Claude Guéant, the interior minister, voiced support for Charlie Hebdo,[32] as did feminist writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who criticised calls for self-censorship.[38]
there is a principle of freedom of expression, which should not be undermined. In the present context, given this absurd video that has been aired, strong emotions have been awakened in many Muslim countries. Is it really sensible or intelligent to pour oil on the fire?"[4
On 7 January 2015, two Islamist gunmen[52] forced their way into the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo and opened fire, killing
12 people
President François Hollande described it as a "terrorist attack of the most extreme barbarity".[61] The two gunmen were identified as Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi, French Muslim brothers of Algerian descent.[62][6
The day after the attack, the remaining staff of Charlie Hebdo announced that publication would continue,
huge demand in France, the print run would be raised from three to five million copies
The French government granted nearly €1 million to support the magazine
Je suis Charlie, French for "I am Charlie", was adopted by supporters of Charlie Hebdo.
embraced the expression as a rallying cry for freedom of expression and freedom of the press.[7
Violent demonstrations
while peaceful demonstrations were held in Khartoum, Sudan, Russia, Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania.[86]
million people attended a demonstration in Grozny, the capital city of the Chechen Republic, protesting against the depictions of Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo
"Violence is not the method".
embroiled in controversy...easy to misrepresent purpose of provocative work
In February 2015 Charlie Hebdo was accused of attacking freedom of press when its lawyer Richard Malka tried to prevent the publication of the magazine Charpie Hebdo, a pastiche of Charlie Hebdo
disparaging people with disabilities
Riss parodied anti-immigrant attitudes by featuring a cartoon with a caricature of Jesus walking on water next to a drowning Muslim boy
widely seen as gallows humour in France, but prompted another wave of controversy abroad
caricature of the dead body of Syrian Kurdish refugee child Alan Kurdi next to a McDonald's sign with the caption, "So
close to the goal."
including a caption questioning whether the boy would have grown up to be an "ass groper in Germany".[101][
Charlie Hebdo published cartoons which were perceived in Russia as mocking the victims of the tragedy.[10
The Vatican and Jewish groups said they were offended, the Associated Press censored images of the cover
The cover upset the Belgian public and it particularly upset Stromae's family, because his father was murdered in the Rwandan genocide.[
caused 294 deaths, the French magazine published a cartoon in which the earthquake victims are depicted as pasta dishes, under the title "Séisme à l'italienne
Russia accused Charlie Hebdo of 'mocking' the Black Sea plane crash after publishing 'inhuman' cartoons about the disaster. In one reference to the crash, which claimed 92 lives,
This came as tensions between Erdoğan and French president Emmanuel Macron rise over Macron's anti-Islamic comments,
The tensions were, in turn, caused by the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in France after he showed caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, which were published by Charlie Hebdo, to his students as part of a lesson on free speech.
(Chechan 18yr old refugee murderer)
On the other hand, Macron promised to defend the right to freedom of expression and freedom of publication.
(his "Islam is in crisis" on 2/10/20 before Paty's murder & the stance above was behind boycott from Muslim countries)
an unaccompanied minor refugee in France in 2018. He confessed to his actions and said he had acted in vengeance for the Muhammad caricature republications.
the enemies of the republic will not win" and pleged to escalate the fight against terrorism.[
Emmanuel Macron faced backlash when he defended the caricatures. Many Muslims called for French products to be boycotted
In March 2007 a Paris court acquitted Val, finding that it was fundamentalists, rather than Muslims, who were being ridiculed in the cartoons.
Hebdo ridiculing terrorists will make them put their arms down
but academics are responsible for arming terrorists 🤔
Sinè
This led to complaints of antisemitism. The magazine's editor, Philippe Val, ordered Siné to write a letter of apology or face termination. The cartoonist said he would rather "cut his own balls off," and was promptly fired.
Italy
filed a lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo for "aggravated defamation",
Turkey
Granting the prize to Charlie Hebdo sparked vast controversy among writers[149] and 175 prominent authors boycotted the event due to "cultural intolerance" of the magazine.[150]
the satirical weekly represented the “cultural arrogance of the French nation”.
stepped beyond PEN's traditional role of protecting freedom of expression against government oppression.
"A hideous crime was committed, but was it a freedom-of-speech issue for PEN America to be self-righteous about?" he told the newspaper.
its moral obligation to a large and disempowered segment of their population."
withdrawing out of discomfort with what she called the magazine's "cultural intolerance" and promotion of "a kind of forced secular view."
"In recent years the magazine has gone specifically for racist and Islamophobic provocations," Nigerian-American novelist Cole wrote in a New Yorker article shortly after the attacks in January.
Salman Rushdie 's colourful language
"Charlie Hebdo's intent was to "ostracise or insult Muslims, but rather to reject forcefully the efforts of a small minority of radical extremists to place broad categories of speech off limits."
If this was my child, how would I advise?
Is this a subject for Civics Education?
But it is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech. It is possible to approve of sacrilege without endorsing racism.
The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were not mere gadflies, not simple martyrs to the right to offend: they were ideologues. Just because one condemns their brutal murders doesn’t mean one must condone their ideology
Rather than posit that the Paris attacks are the moment of crisis in free speech—as so many commentators have done—it is necessary to understand that free speech & other expressions of liberté are already in crisis in Western societies;
There are harsh consequences for those who interrogate this monopoly. The only person in prison for the C.I.A.’s abominable torture regime is John Kiriakou, the whistle-blower. Edward Snowden
But the suggestion that violence by self-proclaimed Jihadists is the only threat to liberty in Western societies ignores other, often more immediate and intimate, dangers.
By @TrevorPTweets: "The greatest tragedy in all of this is that the gurus of wokedom '
What amazes me is that y'all were supporting the same gurus of wokedom' the Queer Theory Activists
against a minority within a minority who you framed as reactionary & hateful extremists
In the interests of a real freedom, of speech and of conscience,
we stand with French educators under threat from this ideologically-driven attack by politicians, commentators and select academics.
We are concerned about the clear double standards regarding academic freedom in the attack on critical race and decolonial scholarship mounted by the manifesto.
In opposition to the actual tenets of academic freedom, the demands it makes portray any teaching and research into
portray any teaching and research into the history or sociology of French colonialism and institutionalised racism as an attack on academic freedom.
French liberalism as a rationale for the brutal colonisation of millions of peoples across Asia and Africa – what it called its “mission civilisatrice” (civilising mission). This violence is as much part of French history as its revolutionary triad
This violence is as much part of French history as its revolutionary triad of liberté, égalité, and fraternité (liberty, equality and fraternity).
It is only the latter, however, that is ever mentioned as France’s contribution to modernity.
There is seldom a reckoning with the dark underbelly of liberalism, and the unparalleled violence that was, and continues to be, meted out to its historic Others.
But Muslims – having borne the brunt of French (and other) colonialism, imperialism and racist violence –
We in the Jewish community sometimes forget how much we owe Islam.
It was the great Islamic theologians and thinkers — among them al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — who recovered the classical tradition of philosophy,
It was the great Islamic theologians and thinkers — among them al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — who recovered the classical tradition of philosophy, leading the West out of the Dark Ages.
Maimonides, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers in the past 1,000 years, was also deeply indebted to them. Throughout his masterwork, The Guide for the Perplexed, he is in constant dialogue with the Mutakallimun, or the Muslim Kalamists.
'The march of wokeism is an all-pervasive new oppression
Culture Wars Do Matter'
Funny Our Trevor was in the Media Culture War against Birmingham Parents Rights Protesters 2019 who stood AGAINST this same march of wokeism
They got framed as hateful extremists
"40 yrs trying to ensure people weren't judged by their race or gender
I assured him I wouldn't hold his colour..."
what about religion Trevor ?
Not only were all the ' progressive'/ intellectual elite/Birmingham CC/Schools/MP's/DfE/Ofsted/ EHRC
all behind No Outsiders Queer Theory-led projects at both protests schools in 2019
Parents were framed by @TrevorPTweets 'enemy at the gates '
"So for me personally Ramadan not only represents surrender & submission to God
but also personal friendship & respect which for me goes beyond religious affiliation, race & gender
Connecting us with our deeper essence, our spiritual identity as servants of God"