[Ralph] Peters: If They Had Any Guts, All U.S. Papers Would Print Muhammad Cartoons

Fox News Insider ^ | January 07, 2015 10:24 am | (America’s Newsroom)

[Olog-hai]

On “America’s Newsroom,” Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) reacted to the deadly terror attack on the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper and called out the “cowardly” English-speaking media. […]

Peters said that no publication in the English-speaking world had the guts to take on Islamic fanaticism and mock Islamic fanatics as Charlie Hebdo did.

“The correct response to this attack, by all of us in journalism … if we had guts, those cartoons would be reprinted on the front page of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times tomorrow. They won't be. Brave journalists died and cowardly ones will profit.” …

[Pajamajan]

Someone made the point while the French have a paper that mocks radical Islam, we in the USA-a supposed bastion of free speech, do not.

And prior to this attack, anyone trying to start such a paper would have been roundly criticized by the left for "insensitivity" exc....

[Pontiac]

I don’t think conflict avoidance at all costs is the way to go. But the opposite extreme of purposefully and outrageously offending everyone isn’t exactly a smart course either.

You make a valid point. Being deliberately provocative is uncivilized.

But in this case where the cartoon is the catalyst of the entire news event I think is no less than cowardly. AP and others had no issue with publishing pictures of the Piss Christ “art”

[Rummyfan]

Marking...

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Ah,the bottom one is the symbol for St. Leupold of the Reticle.

He is the patron saint of snipers.

[potlatch]

Me too LUV!

[potlatch]

Lol, made that waaaay back. Think I’ve improved a bit since then...