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FRANCE'S LE MONDE PUBLISHES FRONT-PAGE CARTOON OF MOHAMMED (Yippee!!!)
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | 2 February 2006 | AFP via The Tocqueville Connection

Posted on 02/02/2006 7:11:45 AM PST by Cornpone

PARIS, Feb 2, 2006 (AFP) - France's respected daily newspaper Le Monde joined a European press campaign for freedom of expression Thursday with a front-page cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed and an editorial defending the right to ridicule religions.

The drawing by the paper's long-time cartoonist Plantu featured a head of the prophet made up of the words "I must not draw Mohammed" written repeatedly in long-hand.

"Religions are systems of thought, constructions of the spirit, beliefs which are to be respected certainly, but also freely analysed, criticised and even turned to ridicule," Le Monde said.

"A Muslim may well be shocked by a picture of Mohammed, especially an ill-intentioned one. But a democracy cannot start policing people's opinions, except by trampling the rights of man underfoot," it said.

Plantu told the newspaper that cartoonists and other humourists find it increasingly hard to touch on religion in their work.

"People do not understand to what point -- outside the Catholic Church which we can attack and which is, one has to say, very lenient -- it has become impossible to criticise religious things," he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: boycott; cartoons; censorship; europeanmuslims; france; freespeech; islam; jihad; lemonde; mohammad; mohammed; muslim; muslims; rop; terrorists; trop; wot
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1 posted on 02/02/2006 7:11:47 AM PST by Cornpone
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To: Cornpone

LMAO!! Pass the popcorn. First the Danes and now the Frenchies!


2 posted on 02/02/2006 7:13:06 AM PST by HonduGOP
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To: Cornpone

>> the Catholic Church which we can attack <<

*sigh*


3 posted on 02/02/2006 7:14:17 AM PST by dangus
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To: HonduGOP

French and German Papers Reprint Danish Cartoons That Sparked Muslim Protests

By E&P Staff

Published: February 01, 2006 UPDATED 2:40 PM ET

NEW YORK French and German newspapers Wednesday reprinted Danish newspaper cartoons that sparked protests in the Muslim world, according to Reuters and Associated Press stories.

Also, widely syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel and Tribune Media Services wrote about the cartoon controversy in her Wednesday piece.

Paris-based France Soir said it ran the cartoons to support freedom of expression and fight religious intolerance. AP reported that Mohammed Bechari, president of the National Federation of the Muslims of France, said his group would start legal proceedings again France-Noir.

"The publication of 12 cartoons in the Danish press has shocked the Muslim world for whom the representation of Allah and his prophet is banned," France-Soir said in a front-page comment below one of the controversial drawings. "But because no religious dogma can impose its view on a democratic and secular society, France Soir publishes the incriminated cartoons."

Under a headline that read, "Yes, we have the right to caricature God," the paper also ran a front-page cartoon showing Buddha, the Christian and Jewish Gods, and the Prophet Mohammad sitting on a cloud above Earth. The Christian God says: "Don't complain, Mohammad, we've all been caricatured here."

Other papers reprinting the Danish cartoons included Germany's Die Welt and Berliner Zeitung. Die Welt said a "right to blasphemy" is a democratic freedom.

The cartoons set off waves of protests after their initial publication in Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper in September and in a Norwegian paper last month.

Islam sees images of its prophet as disrespectful and caricatures as blasphemous, noted the Reuters piece.

Kathleen Parker said in her column: "One could make a quick argument against publishing some of the cartoons for being mediocre, but free speech makes no demand for quality. More to the point, the Danish cartoon controversy proves the larger truth that those groups most vocal in demanding tolerance from others are usually themselves the least tolerant."


LOL!! The Germans are doing it, too!! Great news!!


4 posted on 02/02/2006 7:14:53 AM PST by HonduGOP
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To: Cornpone
Europe is finally waking up to the implications of coddling Islamofaciests. I admire their courage but fear it has come too late.
5 posted on 02/02/2006 7:15:03 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: dangus

>> the Catholic Church which we can attack <<

don't we know it!


6 posted on 02/02/2006 7:15:23 AM PST by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: HonduGOP

Another French Paper did it yesterday and the Editor in Chief was promptly fired, lets see if this paper has more of a spine. An Italian, a Spanish and a German newspaper threw thier hats in the ring yesterday as well.


7 posted on 02/02/2006 7:16:00 AM PST by rattrap
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To: Cornpone

Sheesh, Christians endured a crucifix in a beaker of urine as a piece of "art." The Muzzies have no idea, but I'm hoping the lefties don't make that POS religion an exception to their rule of trashing religions.


8 posted on 02/02/2006 7:16:57 AM PST by PLK
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To: HonduGOP

According to this article, the editor was fired

French editor fired over Muhammad drawings

2/2/2006, 9:09 a.m. ET
By ANGELA CHARLTON
The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — The managing editor of a French newspaper was fired after it republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked fresh anger among Muslims, employees at the paper said Thursday.....

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/international-16/1138885163123710.xml&storylist=


9 posted on 02/02/2006 7:17:13 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John; EBH; Chgogal; evad; American in Israel; Grut; Bombardier; CarrotAndStick; ...

Ping...perhaps there is hope for western civilization and democratic values in Europe.


10 posted on 02/02/2006 7:17:39 AM PST by Cornpone (Who Dares Wins -- Defame Islam Today -- Tell the Truth About Muhammad)
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To: Cornpone
This is playing out eerily like Tony Blankley's The West's Last Chance, although in his "worst case scenario" the EU doesn't show much backbone. He does point out that Europe is waking up to the Islamic threat and current events seem to indicate that is the case. We can hope.
11 posted on 02/02/2006 7:17:42 AM PST by Pete
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To: rattrap

"....the Editor in Chief was promptly fired"

Would you happen to have a link to that?


12 posted on 02/02/2006 7:18:22 AM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: Cornpone

13 posted on 02/02/2006 7:18:55 AM PST by RKV ( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
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To: Cornpone

Wow, I sense a suicide bombing of Le Monde's offices sometime soon...


14 posted on 02/02/2006 7:19:07 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Cornpone

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/ger060202?view=Standard

The editor of a French newspaper that reprinted a cartoon featuring the Prophet Muhammad on its front page has been sacked for offending Muslims. Jacques Lefranc was dismissed by the Egyptian owner of the paper, France Soir, in a developing row between Muslims and European press. Danish paper Jyllands Posten first printed the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in September 2005. Their publication has since sparked protests by Muslims around the world, who say the pictures are offensive.

( SAME ONE?)


15 posted on 02/02/2006 7:19:23 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: dynachrome

See post 15


16 posted on 02/02/2006 7:20:32 AM PST by rattrap
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To: Cornpone
A Jordanian tabloid has printed some of the cartoons: Anger grows over Muhammad cartoon.

Interesting!

17 posted on 02/02/2006 7:21:06 AM PST by AntiGuv
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To: Cornpone

Looks like Islam is dumb enough to make this a hotbutton issue.


But I am surprised that the EU media, of all things, has decided to throw out the rhetoric of appeasement and offend the Muslims. It just shows that getting killed is no big deal to them, but having your right of free expression curbed--that is a big deal.


18 posted on 02/02/2006 7:21:22 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Cornpone

Since when does a misfit minority get to call the shots? That's like me jumping onto the stage while Frank Sinatra is singing and demanding he sing the songs I like and to sing them *my way*


19 posted on 02/02/2006 7:21:47 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: Cornpone

They'd better step up production at the Renault plant.


20 posted on 02/02/2006 7:22:04 AM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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