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.
Not sure how the Arabs figure the US is "holding up the Arab world" (with Israel's help).
We're paying the Arab world $70.00 a barrel for something they found,
that costs them $5.00 a barrel to pump out of the ground.
They sure are silly-billies!
Please note that Ramy Lakah is a Coptic Christian.
http://65.110.85.181/religion/news/bn2005/bn-2005-06-201.htm
Noted. But doubtless he has relatives in Egypt and fears reprisals . . . .
There once was in France a cartoon
Of Mohammad drawn like a goon.
In response to cries
Of you all must die,
The editors gave them the moon.
That and more, probably. He's in a tight spot.
Now let's start seeing some support from US newspapers. Anyone -- anyone?
For the record, the owner nonwithstanding, the editor of the first French paper has woved to never appologize.
Cheers.
You are correct and the sooner people figure that out the better. It is not the Religion of Peace...it is the Religion of Submission. The EU is going to be quickly finding out they are in the middle of an occupation...on their own land.
And America isn't all that far behind.
If I understood it correctly, which off course I might not, according to Danish media, the guy who was fired was the chief executive of the paper, whilst the editor stayed on.
And in his editorial today, woved to never appologize.
Perhaps, a second dismissal is coming?
Why do I see French Automobiles on fire this Friday after the Muslims go to their mosques for spiritual "inspiration."
This is getting interesting!
Re your #36 -
"Sharon eats Palestinian children. [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 22, 2004]"
Oh; I first thought that it was an American Liberal "Pro-Choice" activist, dining on aborted "Unwanted tissue".
Apparently the Chinese consider aborted featuses to be quite the delicacy - something we don't hear about that often about our "most favored nation" communist trading partner, now do we?
Looks like the Chicoms will be making all the Chevys and Fords from now on, too.
"wusses I think."
You would be thinking right.
Jordan makes the leap
Meanwhile, a Jordanian gossip tabloid on defiantly published three of the cartoons that have triggered outrage in the Arab and Muslim world.
"Muslims of the world, be reasonable," said the editor-in-chief of the weekly independent newspaper Al-Shihan in an editorial alongside the cartoons, including the one showing the Muslim religion's founder wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
"What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?" wrote Jihad Momani.
He told the AFP news service he decided to publish the offending cartoons "so people know what they are protesting about... People are attacking drawings that they have not even seen."
"Scratch" one more editor!
Re your #49 -
"It's ALWAYS open season on us mackeral-snappers!"
Don't feel too lonely; ALL of us Christians (who will admit to it, anyway) have a bullseye on our backs, regardless of denomination.
"Is Paris burning?"
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