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From the Boston Globe:
- Doonesbury's Creator Turns To Victim-blaming
Garry Trudeau, veteran cartoonist of Doonesbury, blames the late contributors of Charlie Hebdo for the horror they went through: Less than four months after Islamic fanatics stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and butchered...
- 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...
- A Tale Of Two Rallies
Paris: Paris (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders marched together through Paris Sunday in a historic show of solidarity and defiance after terrorist attacks in the French capital that claimed 17 lives.French President Francois...
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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...
- 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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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 who produced Charlie Hebdo a target.
I wonder how many people around our parts, or anywhere in America, really believe in and would defend, with their lives if necessary, the concept of free speech.
Many of us are not Charlie. People who you think would know better, some of the best educated among us, believe less in the concept of free speech, especially offensive speech, than in the idea that you have the right not to be offended.
Most depressing is that many who embody the antithesis to the spirit behind Je suis Charlie are in the academy, in higher education, in some of the best American colleges and universities, including right here in and around Boston.
It is precisely in the places where robust free speech would be most expected that it is institutionally censored and punished.
- Doonesbury's Creator Turns To Victim-blaming
Garry Trudeau, veteran cartoonist of Doonesbury, blames the late contributors of Charlie Hebdo for the horror they went through: Less than four months after Islamic fanatics stormed the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and butchered...
- 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...
- A Tale Of Two Rallies
Paris: Paris (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders marched together through Paris Sunday in a historic show of solidarity and defiance after terrorist attacks in the French capital that claimed 17 lives.French President Francois...
-
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...
- 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...