[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.” …

[Travis McGee]

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[Fido969]

They just print the hastag-type generic anti-violence cartoons. They don’t have the guts to incite the “religion of peace”

[Travis McGee]

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[Norm Lenhart]

Perfect.

[BunnySlippers]

Agreed!

[Travis McGee]

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[MrB]

That pretty well captures it.

Someone pointed out the similarity to the “hands up don’t shoot” crowd here, as well.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I disagree. Guts need to be applied to exterminating the serial killers who perpetrate this kind of thing. There is no glory in printing the cartoons. They were tacky and rude, intentionally so. The designers did not deserve death. Neither does that obligate everyone else to be tacky and rude.

I may defend the right of the liberal to say what he/she says. That does not mean that I will repeat it. Same for any other speech. Murder is wrong. That does not obligate me to embrace the speech.

[Travis McGee]

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[RightGeek]

[4rcane]

How do you think the Left will reactive if a lone Christian kill someone for mocking Jesus/God? The Left all around the world won’t back then no matter how many ppl get killed by “Christian terrorists”. They will be giving Christianity the middle finger

[Travis McGee]

[Olog-hai]

“Tacky and rude” (based on opinion) is not a reason to not print them.