Posted on 11/30/2016 4:22:32 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Over twenty years, fear has already devoured important pieces of Western culture and journalism. They all disappeared in a ghastly act of self-censorship: the cartoons of a Danish newspaper, a "South Park" episode, paintings in London's Tate Gallery, a book published by the Yale University Press; Mozart's Idomeneo, the Dutch film "Submission", the name and face of the US cartoonist Molly Norris, a book cover by Art Spiegelman and Sherry Jones's novel, "Jewel of Medina", to name just a few. Most of them have become ghosts living in hiding, hidden in some country house, or retired to private life, victims of an understandable but tragic self-censorship.
Only the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was missing from this sad, long list. Until now.
The disappointment with what Charlie Hebdo has become is reflected in the words of the French journalist, Marika Bret: "From Italy we receive many threats." The reference is not to some Italian jihadist cell, but to a September Charlie Hebdo cover that mocked victims of the earthquake in Italy. It seems that the satirical weekly, almost destroyed by French Islamists two years ago, has been "normalized".
Take Charlie's recent covers. Against terrorists? No. Against those who called them "racists"? No. It was against Éric Zemmour, the brave French journalist at Le Figaro who has led a public debate about French identity. "Islam is incompatible with secularism, incompatible with democracy, and incompatible with republican government," Zemmour wrote.
Laurent Sourisseau, aka "Riss," now the publishing director and majority owner of Charlie, was shot during the 2015 attack on the magazine, and lives under police protection. He depicted Zemmour on the cover with an explosive vest, effectively comparing him to a terrorist.
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Shemp will be crushed.
The problem is a society of civil peaceful people coming face to face with a barbarian nation from the 7th century. When the expanding Europeans met with the new world natives the advanced societies of Europe were also continually at war and ready to fight to keep or take what they wanted and saw it as legitimate political policy.
Today’s Islamic states are the same today Asian the 7th century and have been continually at war with the west for over 1300 years either overtly or covertly but always at war. The west thinks the war ended in 1100 AD with the last crusader armies wearing armor and riding horses in the Middle East.
We in the west had better wake up and get on a social and political war footing and demand and elect leaders that know we are in an active war for our very existence and are willing to take bold action, now!
I’m not shedding a tear for those asshole cowards.
Unchecked jihad sweeps across Europe. So long Hebdo. Thanks for identifying a threat, and ridiculing that threat.
Fislam
I do not mourn Charlie Hebdo. They happened to be on the right side for a little bit.
But mostly they were far left jerks who contributed greatly to the decline of western civilization.
Think of them as Rolling Stone with far less class.
I mourn the passing of free speech. This is emblematic. In America, the MSM is bought. In France, even a small magazine gets cowed. Repression is seeping in like spilled coffee on a paper towel.
they were anti western up until the anti western forces attacked them. in other words, they were useful idiots.
so much for all those candlelight vigils and all those “je suis charlie hebdo” signs.
It might be that they still ring true, heavily seasoned with French irony. Hope that Le Pen wins, so we don’t have to find out.
In the far east, Islam is regarded as western, because they aggressively proselytize and conquer.
Don't you love the way autocorrect changes "as in" to Asian?
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