Posted on 01/14/2015 4:29:16 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If there were ever really a bright moment in the sun for Charlie Hebdo magazine’s slain writers and editors to be hailed as free speech martyrs, it’s just about over. The Left is very uneasy with the notion of celebrating people who delighted in trampling on sacred narratives about power and victimization. To be brutally frank, modern “liberals” aren’t all that wild about free speech, either.
The painful conflict occurring within the liberal mind is perfectly captured by the confused title of a Slate post by Jordan Weissmann, “Charlie Hebdo Is Heroic and Racist: We Should Embrace and Condemn It.” Judging by the URL for this post, its original title was even more provocative: “Charlie Hebdo, the French Satirical Magazine, Is Heroic. It Is Also Racist.”
The “racist” angle for this critique is based on the preference of Charlie Hebdo editors for depicting Mohammed (whom Weissmann is very careful to refer to as “the prophet Mohammed,” in a reflex that has become remarkably widespread among Western journalists) as a “hook-nosed wretch straight out of Edward Said’s nightmares, seemingly for no purpose beyond antagonizing Muslims who, rightly or wrongly, believe that depicting Mohammed at all is blasphemous.”
You’ve got to love that “rightly or wrongly,” which at first seems like the Slate writer genuflecting in the direction of Islamic piety; hey, maybe they’re right, and drawing pictures of Mohammed is an unforgivable offense against God! But no, he threw that in there because liberals are making a game attempt to claim that millions of Muslims have been misreading their sacred texts for centuries, and there really isn’t a prohibition against depicting Mohammed in Islamic law. Never mind what your imam says, let The New York Times explain what your religion really means!
Edward Said doesn’t just make a cameo appearance....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Undocumented (approved by the MSM and the
enabling treasonous Congress)
pRes_ _ent Obola is the voice of radical Islam.
I’m hoping they’ll come out with the English version and distribute it over here.
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A serious contender in mainstream journalism's revolting competition to see who gets to be the last scribbler beheaded.
Mr. niteowl77
They were huge supporters of free speech when it helped them with their rise to power.
They keep feeding the predator, in the hopes it will eat them last.
I want the popcorn and beer concession when the beheadings of Leftists starts...
Actually, the socialists and islamonazis have agreed to split the world among them first and fight it out later.
Right now, they need to eliminate the US and European allies who beat their alliance in WWII.
That makes as much sense as everything else I’ve heard...
“And the enemy of my enemy is my friend...”
I don’t know a lot to praise Charlie Hebdo for. In the same issue this week with a cartoon of Mohammed on the cover, there’s an obscene cartoon of the Pope giving communion showing they are equal opportunity offenders. So yeah, I support their right to be offensive and juvenile and no, I certainly don’t support the attack on them. But I’m not going to support their content.
“To be brutally frank, modern “liberals” aren’t all that wild about free speech, either. “
Sure they are as long as it is used to mock conservatives, Christians, and Jews.
To a liberal freedom of speech means freedom from having to hear speech they don’t like. Just like religious freedom means freedom from religion.
Good post. Freedom comes with responsibility. Hebdo has the right to be deliberately offensive, but we don’t have to admire it.
Islam is not a race. Calling someone who disagrees with the beliefs of Islam a racist is the same thing as calling someone who disagrees with National Socialism a racist. Being labeled a Naziphobic is a badge of honor.
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