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- Liberal Menstrual Rag Sponges Up Some Truth For Once: We Must Talk About Islam: A Faith That Affects Everyone Should Be Susceptible To Critique By All
From Salon: Eight months after it suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo continues to provoke wrongheaded, confused and even cowardly analysis that disregards the facts and betrays a...
- You Fight Terrorism By Not Being Terrorized: Norway Repeals Blasphemy Law, In Response To Charlie Hebdo Murders
YOU FIGHT TERRORISM BY NOT BEING TERRORIZED: Norway repeals blasphemy law, in response to Charlie Hebdo murders. Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response to January’s...
- Dead Charlie Hebdo Journalists Named “islamophobes Of The Year” By Muslim Rights Group
The editor and cartoonist of Charlie Hebdo, Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was slaughtered by Muslims in January. From Breitbart:Charlie Hebdo has been named 2015 International Islamophobe of the year, despite many of its staff having been killed...
- I Am Not Charles? French Attacks Bring Doubts On Free Speech
From the Boston Globe: Je suis Charlie is an understandable and admirable reaction to the savagery in Paris. But I wonder how much truth there is in it. I wonder how many newspapers would print the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that made the people...
- France Surrenders!
FRANCE TO CLOSE 20 EMBASSIES IN FEAR OF CARTOON BACKLASH FRANCE PREPARES FOR A VIGOROUS DISCUSSION OF FREE SPEECH WITH ISLAM The government of France announced on Wednesday that it will shut down 20 of its embassies in the Muslim world (which arguably...
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Doonesbury’s Gary Trudeau Uses Polk Award Acceptance Speech To Bash Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists Slaughtered By Jihadists
Gart Trudeau: "I've Been Completely Bought and Sold"
Today, Doonesbury’s Gary Trudeau became the first cartoonist to ever receieve a George Polk Award. During his acceptance speech, he remarked that the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo — the satirical Parisian magazine that was recently the site of a terror attack — “wandered into the realm of hate speech.”
He also added that “free speech… becomes its own kind of fanaticism.”
So Charlie Hebdo’s nationally beloved cartoonists were massacred and yet, Trudeau thinks its helpful to contextualize their deaths by characterizing them as hate-spewing fanatics.
This is the free speech equivalent of suggesting they had it coming because they were wearing a short skirts.
And yet, Treaudeau’s journalistic peers don’t seem to see the problem here.
Here’s what a New York Times bureau chief had to say: “Wise, nuanced words”?
Perhaps there will be some general condemnation of Trudeau’s idiotic sentiment here, but my personal experience shows that the media are downright cowardly when it comes to exposing savagery for what it is.
They let themselves be easily intimidated by the threat of violence and are content cultivating an atmosphere of self-censorship.
- Liberal Menstrual Rag Sponges Up Some Truth For Once: We Must Talk About Islam: A Faith That Affects Everyone Should Be Susceptible To Critique By All
From Salon: Eight months after it suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo continues to provoke wrongheaded, confused and even cowardly analysis that disregards the facts and betrays a...
- You Fight Terrorism By Not Being Terrorized: Norway Repeals Blasphemy Law, In Response To Charlie Hebdo Murders
YOU FIGHT TERRORISM BY NOT BEING TERRORIZED: Norway repeals blasphemy law, in response to Charlie Hebdo murders. Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs of others, in a direct response to January’s...
- Dead Charlie Hebdo Journalists Named “islamophobes Of The Year” By Muslim Rights Group
The editor and cartoonist of Charlie Hebdo, Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, was slaughtered by Muslims in January. From Breitbart:Charlie Hebdo has been named 2015 International Islamophobe of the year, despite many of its staff having been killed...
- I Am Not Charles? French Attacks Bring Doubts On Free Speech
From the Boston Globe: Je suis Charlie is an understandable and admirable reaction to the savagery in Paris. But I wonder how much truth there is in it. I wonder how many newspapers would print the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that made the people...
- France Surrenders!
FRANCE TO CLOSE 20 EMBASSIES IN FEAR OF CARTOON BACKLASH FRANCE PREPARES FOR A VIGOROUS DISCUSSION OF FREE SPEECH WITH ISLAM The government of France announced on Wednesday that it will shut down 20 of its embassies in the Muslim world (which arguably...