Publishing offensive content about the Prophet

[Blobbenstein]

But why, and what have hundreds of innocent girls being raped and murdered got to do with welfare checks? It is strange to put those two stories together and you have to question the mentality behind it.

maybe one explanation is that they're just not really very good satirists, and I know the feeling.

 

[Moll Flanders]

We shouldn't restrict such bigoted filth, but we also shouldn't be embracing it, which far too many people are doing.

This.

I hadn't even seen some of the other cartoons Freesia mentioned as I had only seen the anti-Islam ones. I would imagine Charlie Hebdo should welcome criticism as they themselves feel free to do so. I think you can be justly outraged by the murders as well as able to be honest about the cartoons the organisation published.

 

[KLS52]

I had to google Je ne suis pas for translation.

Je ne Suis Pas Charlie! | Dissident Voice

 

[Blobbenstein]

part of the problem with the Je Suis Charlies thing is it looks like it just became another stupid meme trend, where no one questions it, and follow like zombies.

You can't have freedom of speech if no one thinks about things....why read Parrot Times? You'd get more sense and originality from listening to your dog.

 

[Blobbenstein]

how about:
Je suis, et je ne suis pas charlie

 

[Blobbenstein]

Je suis et je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo « Ru Freeman

 

[Blobbenstein]

I kind of am for no censorship, but you can't say, on the one hand that free speech is a powerful right, and on the other hand say 'it's only a cartoon'... This seems to be a prevailing contradiction over the last few days. Or something like that.

 

[KLS52]

I'm for no censorship and for people to be better at exercising their right to such freedom but that's like saying I wish for world peace.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I'm for no censorship and for people to be better at exercising their right to such freedom but that's like saying I wish for world peace.

Like wishing for the moon?

I think the root cause, as I have said before, is that the idea that the press is free is true to some extent, but mostly it is an illusion....that the media isn't able to express what is really going on in the world warps and distorts how people actually express themselves in the media.

 

[Calliegirl]

It does like look they have some cartoons done in poor taste, but also some clever ones I liked. They kind of remind me of PETA, some good, some bad.
I don't think we should censor others just because we don't like what they say. I am beyond tired of being made fun of for being a vegan and caring about animals. Friends and family insult us, strangers make fun of us, people in the food industry insult us, even Jimmy Kimmel as made fun of us on TV, but I don't think there should be a law against them being able to do it. I'm not going to go out and murder a bunch of people because of it either. A cartoon making fun of a pedophile, no matter how many people may worship him, is also not a reason to murder people.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris
The ex-pat artist, who has lived in France for 25 years, talks to the Observer about his new cartoon of Muhammed

Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris | New York Observer

Cartoon here:

Spoiler

 

[Joe]

I am having trouble with the phrase "the Prophet." Mohammad may be a prophet, but he is one of many prophets in the Bible or Koran.
I wonder how Muslims depict, say, Jesus, in words or in images.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Jesus is one of the prophets, in Islam, I gather.

 

[Joe]

Jesus is one of the prophets, in Islam, I gather.

I believe that is correct.

 

[Andy_T]

Here is something about the Boko Haram one
What was the context of Charlie Hebdo's cartoon depicting Boko Haram sex slaves as welfare queens? - Quora
although I don't quite understand it.

Thank you, that discussion was very helpful to understand the context of some of the cartoons, that - taken out of context - might seem crude, racist and right-wing. Seems they are not, but rather more clever than that.

Best regards,
Andy

 

[Blobbenstein]

Another of my masterpieces...

 

[Moll Flanders]

The Guardian newspaper has shown a picture of the new Charlie Hebdo magazine cover along with a warning that some might find offensive. I think it make sense to show an image like that if it is related to a news story.

Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad | Media | The Guardian

 

[shyvas]

This is the front cover of tomorrow's edition of CH.

En Une mercredi, Charlie Hebdo tient tête aux terroristes - Libération

 

[Blobbenstein]

all this stuff is making me think about leaning French.

 

[Mischief]

I'm for no censorship and for people to be better at exercising their right to such freedom but that's like saying I wish for world peace.

This.