Posted on 01/07/2015 2:35:26 PM PST by 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.” …
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Also the west must stop buying oil from Saudi Arabia completely even if it increases the price of gas
Saudi arabia funds these scumbags to no end across the world
Yup. Cut them off from the rest of the planet.
Why anyone hires a muslim I have no clue. Why they support movies with them in it I have no clue. All it does id give them cash. power and propaganda ability.
The religion of pieces.
It’s not so much a religion as a government system.
They worship a false moon god, not the Creator of the Earth.
It’s called a “jihad”, not a crusade (which refers to the Christian cross).
Liberals are too stupid to be idiots.
Reporting (by showing) the cartoons does not equal “embracing” them, and the act of reporting is not necessarily “tacky and rude.” In fact, I believe not reporting it by showing them is simply an act of cowardice.
The cartoons supposedly provoked the murderers. Therefore they are not irrelevant.
Gorgeous, artistic picture of Mo. LOL
In a news story about the murders, the murderers made them relevant. I think the news is less complete without an example and in that case, it is not about being tacky and rude.
HOWEVER, the demand that all of them be reprinted as a way to somehow counter the murders is just a high pressure tactic to force people into supporting something they do not choose to support. That is different. TOTALLY different. It is as anti-free speech as the demand to not print them.
They are not irrelevant as part of the news story. They are irrelevant in every other way. What is asked for is a sort of retaliation reprint of them in an “We’ll show them” sort of way. That is not reporting news. That is making news. Big different and it is as anti-free speech as the demands in the other direction.
Not showing them is an act of PC driven cowardice.
Moderate Islam is the Trojan Horse to the war on the Western World.
Nah, I’m not going to wait for that. I decided today that I am just going to make my own anti-Mohammed web comic and self-publish. No point in relying on the dinosaurs.
Then why not print them or show them as part of the news story?
Too many Americans prefer to look away from evil. In 1936 Americans celebrated the Berlin Olympics despite increasing reports of Hitlers growing oppression. Peace loving people assumed the reports couldn’t be true. We have to show the cartoons so average Americans understand what we face in our fight against Islamic terrorists. Otherwise they would never believe all those people were murdered over a silly cartoon.
That’s a bad comparison. Nobody has organized a world-wide campaign to intimidate Jesse Jackson into not saying racist things. They have done that with regards to “depicting Mohammad”.
If you respond to such bullying by capitulating, you only invite more of it.
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