It take great courage to speak your mind and speak the truth when it goes against the PC crowd or against the grain. Even here on FR you can get bashed because people don’t like what you have to say - even if it is true.
Charlie was a complex outfit, or maybe we should say simple. It lampooned just about every kind of sacred concept, rudely and crudely, no matter whom.
For that reason alone, most of the “we are Charlie” crowd isn’t. Nor should they particularly want to be.
Israeli PM said “The attacks in Paris are just the beginning.”
I don’t agree with killing people for offensive material...nor would I support such material being published...but, it is and those that publish it can answer to a higher power some day.
It is that thought process of allowing one’s faith to decide the outcome and not taking physical action to conclude or even suppose to be the Earthly representation of an entity that is all powerful and make or break someone in an instant.
This is what makes Islam so dangerous...for a moslem will say without stress or temperament, “Allah wills it so” in one breath, but instantly will stand up and shout, “Allah Akbar” when they want something they cannot have or gain through a peaceful process.
It is quicker to allow a % of their population to do all the heavy lifting (terrorism) while the higher percentage (moderates) sit around and reap all the rewards when the rest of the world succumbs to the realization that they could be next...such inaction or submission only emboldens and strengthens the [above perception] of using said violence over obtaining said element peacefully. It is beyond the moslem culture to do so...a process carved out thousands of years ago within the tribal areas of what is presently the Middle East and has been allowed to survive because it is cloaked and protected by religion...one of which is no more than a perverted and plagiarized version of Judaism and Christianity...
I’ve seen all kinds of offensive material and art work targeting Christians...but I would never allow myself to think I represent God or his Son and massacre people over it...but then again, I wasn’t brought up by my parents or neighborhood clerics to believe I’m superior and arrogant as all moslems I’ve met think they are...
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.
Fortunately, in the US, we have this law known as the First Amendment. Surprisingly, there are those who would make exceptions. Screw them! They must be resisted to the death!
pardon, but wtf wants to be charlie?
This guy is a voice in the wilderness who will be heard by the people but not their leaders. And they will continue to follow the tinkling bell of the Judas goat of the bought off media.
I am not Charlie. I do not insult for humor. I shoot back.
I just cant bring myself to feel sorry for the people who are now being attacked by muslims. For the past 10 years they have been bashing and attacking americans who fought a war against these people to try and prevent the radical islamists from coming to the shores of western civilization. We endured the vitriol and the protest marches, we endured the political manuverings from the left and the alinsky ridicule tactics. We are now subjected by these people to a communist overlord in the whitehouse.
Now they are attacked by muslims and they want us to feel sorry for them? I’m sorry but they need to find someone else to fight on their side. If that’s their idea of civilization then civilization be damned.
Charlie don`t surf .
Moi-même, je ne suis pas “Charlie Hebdo”. Au lieu de cela, j’aspire à être “Charlie Martel”.
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.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2015/01/11/our-gutless-surrender/?singlepage=true