News organizations wrestle with whether to publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons after attack

Washington Post ^ | January 7, 2015 | Paul Farhi

[Second Amendment First]

Ever since a Danish newspaper drew death threats and incited protests by publishing cartoons satirizing the prophet Muhammad in 2005, American news organization have wrestled with a question: to publish or not to publish the offending, if clearly newsworthy, cartoons?

The issue came roaring back Wednesday with the attack on a satirical Paris publication that had republished the Danish cartoons and created its own in the face of violent threats from Muslim extremists. The attack by three gunmen on the publication, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead, including its editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, who once defiantly posed with a copy of his magazine featuring a cartoon of an Orthodox Jewish man pushing Muhammad in a wheelchair.

In the wake of the atrocity, a few Western news sources reprinted some of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons. Those included BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, which headlined its compilation, “These Are The Charlie Hebdo Cartoons That Terrorists Thought Were Worth Killing Over.”

But other American news organizations have been reluctant to publish any of them, lest they give offense.

Even the photo of Charbonnier holding the newspaper — taken several months after the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo’s offices in 2011 — was considered controversial enough that the Associated Press cropped the image, leaving only Charbonnier’s face and the publication’s flag visible.

[Second Amendment First]

Cowards. The WashPo puts this in the lifestyle section.

[BenLurkin]

[no-to-illegals]

They ‘wrestle’ because they (the media) hates America and all America Stands For .... FORE!!!

[Personal Responsibility]

They’re not wrestling with a decision. They’re caving in as fast as humanly possible.

[El Cid]

I suppose if you call cowering in a corner a legitimate wrestling move ... sure, ‘wrestling’...

[no-to-illegals]

Want to scare a politician? Tell said politician ... You have arrived ... at CopperHead Road! Said politician will laugh, cry or head for the hills! Ain’t it ‘bout time to head them politicians off that hill? Freedom Riders Unite!

[I want the USA back]

They don’t want to offend their true buddies, those poor, oppressed, misunderstood, innocent, kind, loving, tolerant headchoppers.

[no-to-illegals]

Rebel Souls, Deserters We ‘the People’ are called ... I can hear them saying it ....

[GOJPN]

What are they afraid of? It seems to be ok for them to blast conservatives. It seems to change things when their ass is on the line.

[no-to-illegals]

They call US BAD Company because We Do Not Want our Nation or Civilization to Die ... So Why? What is the other Choice?

[PIF]

All cable media, including Fox News, run only blurred images of the cartoon ...

[tbw2]

In the spirit of Charlie Hebdo, here is The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/jyllands-posten_cartoons/

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

KORAN commands death for those who insult Islam:

[33.57] Surely (as for) those who speak evil things of Allah and His Apostle, Allah has cursed them in this world and the here after, and He has prepared for them a chastisement bringing disgrace.
[33.58] And those who speak evil things of the believing men and the believing women without their having earned (it), they are guilty indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin.
[33.59] O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over-garments; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
[33.60] If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while;
[33.61] Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering.
[33.62] (Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/koran-idx?type=DIV0&byte=650389

ISLAM DELENDA EST
(Islam must be destroyed)

[bgill]

Typical libs. Blame the victims, not the terrorists.