France To Close Embassies In Fear Of Cartoon Backlash

http://www.france24.com/ ^ | September 19, 2012 | France 24

[Biggirl]

France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead.

[mikey_hates_everything]

I think this is the cartoon.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you! Who was the one that published it? I might have seen the name before.

[Rich21IE]

This is actually HUGE! A major withdrawl.

[GeronL]

France surrenders pre-emptively

[tbw2]

They may just be the exceptions to the rule. The last true descendants to Charles Martel.

[skinkinthegrass]

jahadists...that's so true.. cowards, all of them.

[tomkat]

Sorry, I dunno

Just stole it off a gaggle search and will admit to not paying attention to the source info   :-\

[albie]

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticized the magazine’s move as a provocation.
“We saw what happened last week in Libya and in other countries such as Afghanistan,” Fabius told a regular government news conference. “We have to call on all to behave responsibly.”

...WOW! Pa-thet-ic!

[Codeflier]

I actually knew what you meant the whole time. I was just being very subtle about the possibility you did not type what you intended. Also, I totally agree on the essence of the point you were making.

[Darth Reardon]

The French are afraid of a cartoon backlash? Wow. Kind of explains the sunburned armpits.

I can sort of understand being afraid of a backlash over cartoons however.

[yoe]

Is this akin to a spoiled child acting out? Or 'my dad can beat up your dad? Whatever, taunting hot headed, uneducated people about their mythology is stupid and the hot heads are silly and stupid for taking the bait. Idleness instead of working leaves time for such idiocy i.e., the excuse to maim, vandalize, kill, and destroy.

[marktwain]

How Islam—and the ever-present threat it poses to humanity—could be brought to an end in one, simple step

Has this essay been posted on FR? It is well done.

[cardinal4]

I was still being a jerk about it. Sorry, next time I’ll proofread before I act so rude!
It’s true, though, that anything will set them.
Islam really sucks..

[A.A. Cunningham]

backlash

[jdsteel]

....and they will blame us for killing women and children. Again. And the truth won’t matter. Again. Then we’ll apologize. Again. Rinse and repeat.

[KittyKares]

Another variation:

http://www.primerct.org/images/200607_israel_palestine_cartoon.gif

[Rich21IE]

Bwahahahaha, LMAO; thanks for that; hadn’t seen it quite that way.

[CodeToad]

“The world cowers in fear of Muslims.”

...that cower in fear of cartoons!

How we cannot simply manage to restrain such feeble minded morons is beyond me.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Biggirl.