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FRANCE'S LE MONDE PUBLISHES FRONT-PAGE CARTOON OF MOHAMMED (Yippee!!!)
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | 2 February 2006 | AFP via The Tocqueville Connection

Posted on 02/02/2006 7:11:45 AM PST by Cornpone

PARIS, Feb 2, 2006 (AFP) - France's respected daily newspaper Le Monde joined a European press campaign for freedom of expression Thursday with a front-page cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed and an editorial defending the right to ridicule religions.

The drawing by the paper's long-time cartoonist Plantu featured a head of the prophet made up of the words "I must not draw Mohammed" written repeatedly in long-hand.

"Religions are systems of thought, constructions of the spirit, beliefs which are to be respected certainly, but also freely analysed, criticised and even turned to ridicule," Le Monde said.

"A Muslim may well be shocked by a picture of Mohammed, especially an ill-intentioned one. But a democracy cannot start policing people's opinions, except by trampling the rights of man underfoot," it said.

Plantu told the newspaper that cartoonists and other humourists find it increasingly hard to touch on religion in their work.

"People do not understand to what point -- outside the Catholic Church which we can attack and which is, one has to say, very lenient -- it has become impossible to criticise religious things," he said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: boycott; cartoons; censorship; europeanmuslims; france; freespeech; islam; jihad; lemonde; mohammad; mohammed; muslim; muslims; rop; terrorists; trop; wot
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To: USF

Well said.


41 posted on 02/02/2006 7:35:09 AM PST by Cornpone (Who Dares Wins -- Defame Islam Today -- Tell the Truth About Mohammed)
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To: MplsSteve
Wow, I sense a suicide bombing of Le Monde's offices sometime soon...

I was thinking the exact same thing. I would not want to be the night lobby security guard.

42 posted on 02/02/2006 7:35:51 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Cornpone

Well, move France up a notch in the testicle department.

Congratulations!


43 posted on 02/02/2006 7:36:20 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: SJackson

Well... there go another eight, nine hundred French cars, up in flames... :)


44 posted on 02/02/2006 7:37:01 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: Cornpone

Good.

Now, where's The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, etc., etc.?


45 posted on 02/02/2006 7:38:52 AM PST by aculeus
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To: CodeToad

The recent display of testicular fortitude will not last for very long. Expect a recantation.


46 posted on 02/02/2006 7:39:14 AM PST by RKV ( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
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To: USF
The cartoons are so offensive because they reflect facets of the truth, and this is what they do not want revealed. Instead of having the courage to face up to the truth about their so-called "prophet," his rape, his terror, his genocide, his pedophilia, 

This is the true revelation of Muhammad
Their Koran is the fantasy revelations of Muhammad. Some say were hallucinated during epileptic fits. In any case they are false because Mo' is false prophet

and the present day outcomes of following his vile ideology, they try to hide the truth in the dark and "shoot the messenger" who reveals it instead.

 

47 posted on 02/02/2006 7:39:21 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: Cornpone

The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. has some friezes showing likenesses, or supposed likenesses, of various famous lawgivers as a presentation of the history of law. Hammirabi is there. Moses is there. Christ is there. Solon is there. Guess who else is depicted?

Yep, that's right; Mohammed. Like it or not, he set forth a system of law used by many people around the world. The Moslem world is not too pleased about this. Some of the more "official" Moslem organizations complained a while back; they wanted it's face defaced. The Supreme Court, which would have to approve any such act, said "No". They don't want to spoil the historicity of the building, or something such.

I don't think the Islamic whack-jobs have heard about this yet. When they do, look for someone to try to sneak into the building with a bomb, or a hammer and chisel. Or kill a few dozen people in a riot protesting it.


48 posted on 02/02/2006 7:39:33 AM PST by RonF
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To: Cornpone; NYer; Rutles4Ever
"People do not understand to what point -- outside the Catholic Church which we can attack and which is, one has to say, very lenient -- it has become impossible to criticise religious things," he said.

How refreshing -- someone has finally admitted what I've known for some time now.

Even here on FR.

It's ALWAYS open season on us mackeral-snappers!

49 posted on 02/02/2006 7:42:04 AM PST by Malacoda (The Posting Police annoy me)
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To: Cornpone

Cue the Parisian yutes.


50 posted on 02/02/2006 7:43:03 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: dennisw
Chin-pubes.
Makes his face look even more like a half-deflated ballsack.
51 posted on 02/02/2006 7:43:44 AM PST by Malacoda (The Posting Police annoy me)
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To: Cornpone
Vive Le Monde!
Vive La Cinquième République!
Vive La France Chrétienne!






Euh, was that out loud?

52 posted on 02/02/2006 7:44:57 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: dennisw
That's like me jumping onto the stage while Frank Sinatra is singing

Sorry to have to break the news to you, but Frank died May 18, 1998.

53 posted on 02/02/2006 7:46:25 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: CodeToad
OK it's self reflection time =I'm in UK - most of the FReepers in USA - where are our papers on this.

wusses I think.

Meanwhile the Muslims are going bonkers - storming the EU offices in Gaza and threatening lives...

This is not about sensitive Muslims feeling it is about POWER over the freeworld.

Kindest regards
54 posted on 02/02/2006 7:46:52 AM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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To: dangus

That's a pretty strange admission by these "frogs."


55 posted on 02/02/2006 7:48:36 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: PLK

(Sheesh, Christians endured a crucifix in a beaker of urine as a piece of "art." )

Actually it's much worse. That piece of "art" was funded by our government (our taxpayer money) through the National Endowment of "art".


56 posted on 02/02/2006 7:48:48 AM PST by winner3000
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To: freeperfromnj; HonduGOP; rattrap
The editor was fired from France-Soir . . . . and here's why (from the article you linked):

The managing editor of France Soir, Jacques Lefranc, was fired after the publication by owner Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian magnate, employees said. No official reason was immediately announced.

. . . surprise, surprise, surprise!

The article's also correct that Catholics put up with a LOT worse . . .

57 posted on 02/02/2006 7:50:30 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Well that explains it. Nice to know some of the other European papers aren't being intimidated.


58 posted on 02/02/2006 7:56:33 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: Cornpone; dynachrome; rattrap; Samurai_Jack
To put the Le Soir editor firing in some context, the major part owner, Ramy Lakah, is an Egyptian Coptic Christian who has had significant difficulties of his own with the Egyptian government:

Ramy Lakah

Also, there is a report on counterterrorism blog from Lorenzo Vidino, a terrorism authority, that claims there is much more to the story than the twelve cartoons:

Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy

Counter Terrorism Blog is made up of recognized authorities; it is not amateur hour. That doesn't mean the information is right, but it should be taken seriously.

59 posted on 02/02/2006 7:57:16 AM PST by Cap Huff
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To: rattrap; dynachrome; freeperfromnj
Another French Paper did it yesterday and the Editor in Chief was promptly fired...

Bear in mind that the owner of that newspaper is Egyptian, whereas the fired editor was French.

60 posted on 02/02/2006 7:57:19 AM PST by AntiGuv
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