Posted on 01/10/2015 11:19:46 PM PST by naturalman1975
PROTESTERS around the West, horrified by the massacre in Paris, have held up pens and chanted “Je suis Charlie” — I am Charlie.
They lie. The Islamist terrorists are winning, and the coordinated attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and kosher shop will be just one more success. One more step to our gutless surrender.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen didn’t attack Charlie Hebdo because we are all Charlie Hebdo.
The opposite. It sent in the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi because Charlie Hebdo was almost alone.
Unlike most politicians, journalists, lawyers and other members of our ruling classes, this fearless magazine dared to mock Islam in the way the Left routinely mocks Christianity. Unlike much of our ruling class, it refused to sell out our freedom to speak.
Its greatest sin — to the Islamists — was to republish the infamous cartoons of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten which mocked Mohammed, and then to publish even more of its own, including one showing the Muslim prophet naked.
Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no.
No Australian newspaper dared published those pictures, too, bar one which did so in error.
The Obama administration three years ago even attacked Charlie Hebdo for publishing the naked Mohammed cartoon, saying it was “deeply offensive”.
President Barack Obama even told the United Nations “the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam” and damned a YouTube clip “Innocence of Muslims” which did just that. The filmmaker was thrown in jail.
We are all Charlie?
In Australia, Charlie Hebdo would almost certainly be sued into silence, to the cheers of some of the very protesters now claiming to be its great defenders.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
How many times you need the football pulled away from you Charlie Brown? When are you going to learn that no matter how many times you pull the Europeans out of the sling they always go back to their swill.
So you’re going to commit how many troops and how much national debt to fight against the islamist threat. And like a moron you’ll go to war again. And then again they will pull the rug out from you in the middle of it. They will shake their heads sorry and go on another grand rebuilding program. They only fight until they feel better and then they stop and let the problem fester again.
But don’t worry you will sit back in your arm chair and shake your head too because the politicians lied to you again. And the widows and parents of the soldiers who have to fight hamstringed by feckless RoE assembled by lawyers defensive of Islamic lawsuits from CAIR will pay the price with life and limb.
No... I don’t feel sorry for the french at all. They are so smug with their tolerance and smart and peace loving. They allowed the muslim no-go zones, they allowed the nightly rioting and car burnings. Let them Drink the Full Measure of their foolish and cowardly tolerant policies. Even now the French are submitting to the sharia ban, Most of the French media refuses to print the stupid cartoon. Because they cower in the face of the threat.
So let the French go out and fight for their own rights. Let the French bicker with the united nations. Let the French try to assemble a coalition and take the blame from the leftist peace protesters. These are the same people who want to bring our troops and cia officers before the hague to prosecute them for war crimes because they poured water on a terrorists head. So let them talk to the terrorists and try to reach a negotiated peace. Maybe they can negotiate a little peace in exchange for their liberty.
I do feel that it’s a terrible shame that people need to learn this lesson again. But learn it they must because unless they do, this will be another ‘warm’ war partially fought and abandoned. So yes you wont find me supporting another war this day. Not fighting alongside that bunch of weasels.
That’s a good point; this magazine of lefties was opposed to some free speech, just not their own. They did have guts and conviction, though; for that reason, I’m not expecting any attacks on American media offices.
What is happening in Europe is that the far left and far right are coming together in the realization that Islam has no role in either side’s vision of “Eutopia”; in Holland in particular (especially after the Theo van Gogh murder) both sides realize their way of life is under assault by Islam.
See what happens to you in America if you speak out against homosexuality. There is no free speech anywhere.
Pray America is waking
The author here is full of crap. You can't have it both ways. You can't hold up "freedom of speech" as it if were some kind of sacred institution, then criticize someone for refusing to publish something for any reason whatsoever.
Did it occur to the author that maybe a lot of these media outlets found the content of Charlie Hebdo's publication offensive?
We are not like Charlie for the best of all reasons. The people of Charlie were a-holes. While they were murdered while executing an important right, they were no more virtuous than was Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine, when he was shot.
So, loathsome people murdered by terrorists. And I like to think it was not heroism for them to publish those cartoons, but arrogant hatred, and sneering disdain. For which we should think of them in the same light as the drunk at the zoo, who scales a fence because he wants to fistfight a polar bear.
We are not like Charlie because we know that only strength will beat such fanatics, not goading them with offensive comics. If France wants to rid itself of such murderers, it should no longer accept them as immigrants. And if they are there already, they should be stripped of citizenship and returned to the foul hellholes from which they came.
When you open the door for a wolf, it bites you. The French will learn nothing from this slaughter.
What line did the over 3,000 plus people killed in America on 9/11 cross?
If we must understand what motivates these brutal killers, then you will find consonance with Hillary Clinton's new method of pursuing peace in the 21st century, which you doubtless will be hearing more and more about.
We must have our freedom. And they must live with it or die!
I don't believe this is merely "the right to publish." This sounds more like the "rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You certainly can if you know the reasons.
Did it occur to the author that maybe a lot of these media outlets found the content of Charlie Hebdo's publication offensive?
The author in this case is one of Australia's most prominent journalists writing for (and in) it's largest circulation newspaper. He also writes for the country's largest circulation newspaper. He knows the editors personally and has probably close to daily interactions with him. He knows the owners personally (including the ultimate owner of the papers, Rupert Murdoch). He has personally been pursued through the courts by left wing groups who succeeded in having two of his articles banned because they argued they 'racially vilified' people, and he's been threatened with similar cases on other occasions, and watched as his editors, and other employers, refused to do everything legally possible to defend him out of fear that they would be put at risk, thus endangering the very idea of freedom of the press in this country.
So I don't think he's full of crap. He knows damned well why newspapers in this country didn't print the cartoons. If he was allowed to and nobody else would do it, I'm sure he'd be putting them in his own columns just to make the point. But there's no way his paper's editors would let him and he knows why.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2015/01/11/our-gutless-surrender/?singlepage=true
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