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FRANCE TO CLOSE 20 EMBASSIES IN FEAR OF CARTOON BACKLASH
- 7,000 Soldiers To Be Permanently Deployed On Streets Of France
7,000 Soldiers to Be Permanently Deployed on Streets of FranceFrench President Francois Hollande announced 7,000 of the 10,000 soldiers deployed on the country’s streets after the Islamist attacks in January will remain permanently.French...
- London: Huge Crowd Of Muslim Protesters Picket Downing Street To Protest At Charlie Hebdo Cartoons --- Update - 10,000 Of Our Friends, The "moderate Muslims" Attend
The Muslims Are Restless Huge crowd of Muslim protesters picket Downing Street to protest at Charlie Hebdo cartoons The protesters, many of whom were divided into groups of men and women, and included children, gathered just yards from the CenotaphAt...
- Breaking: Belgian Newspaper, Le Soir, Evacuates After Bomb Threat Over #charliehebdo Coverage
From Yahoo: Brussels (AFP) - The offices of a Belgian newspaper that republished cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were evacuated on Sunday after receiving an anonymous bomb threat, its staff said. The evacuation of Le Soir,...
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French paper Charlie Hebdo to publish comic book life of Prophet Mohammed From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:Charlie Hebdo Cartoon "God Doesn't Excist"(AA). A French weekly known for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative...
- Another Cartoonifada
UPDATED - Offices Of French Magazine Firebombed and Destroyed After Publishing Mohammed Cartoons This time in France (hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning). From the Daily Telegraph: French satirical newspaper firebombed after prophet...
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France Surrenders!
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 includes sizable portions of France, although I don’t think they’ve been cheeky enough to open “embassies” on their own nominal soil.)
Why? Because a French magazine called Charlie Hebdo just published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. This is evidently frowned upon under Islamic law… a point previously made to the magazine’s editorial staff with firebombs, after it published a caricature of Mohammed on the front page last year.
The France 24 news service quotes the plucky editor of Charlie Hebdo, Sephane Charbonnier, saying these cartoons of a naked Mohammed will “shock those who will want to be shocked.” I’m going to climb out on a limb here and guess there are plentyof people who want to be shocked.
The French government urged the magazine to refrain from publishing these cartoons, using the soft language of first-stage submission. The government couldn’t find a way to suppress the cartoons, so French officials said that while they respect freedom of expression, they see “no point in such a provocation” and wish “reason to prevail” because “in the current climate” they disapprove of “all excess and call on everyone to behave responsibly.”
In other words, flagrant disobedience of sharia law is extremely unwise, and the government can’t really guarantee your safety if you insist on exercising those “free speech rights.” The State can’t legally censor you, but violent mobs can.
- 7,000 Soldiers To Be Permanently Deployed On Streets Of France
7,000 Soldiers to Be Permanently Deployed on Streets of FranceFrench President Francois Hollande announced 7,000 of the 10,000 soldiers deployed on the country’s streets after the Islamist attacks in January will remain permanently.French...
- London: Huge Crowd Of Muslim Protesters Picket Downing Street To Protest At Charlie Hebdo Cartoons --- Update - 10,000 Of Our Friends, The "moderate Muslims" Attend
The Muslims Are Restless Huge crowd of Muslim protesters picket Downing Street to protest at Charlie Hebdo cartoons The protesters, many of whom were divided into groups of men and women, and included children, gathered just yards from the CenotaphAt...
- Breaking: Belgian Newspaper, Le Soir, Evacuates After Bomb Threat Over #charliehebdo Coverage
From Yahoo: Brussels (AFP) - The offices of a Belgian newspaper that republished cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were evacuated on Sunday after receiving an anonymous bomb threat, its staff said. The evacuation of Le Soir,...
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French paper Charlie Hebdo to publish comic book life of Prophet Mohammed From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:Charlie Hebdo Cartoon "God Doesn't Excist"(AA). A French weekly known for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative...
- Another Cartoonifada
UPDATED - Offices Of French Magazine Firebombed and Destroyed After Publishing Mohammed Cartoons This time in France (hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning). From the Daily Telegraph: French satirical newspaper firebombed after prophet...