Posted on 10/11/2020 6:29:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
On September 2, 2020 a trial, postponed because of COVID-19, openedin Paris concerning those alleged to have been involved in the deadly attack in 2015 on Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly magazine. Besides recounting the gruesome account of the details of terrorist activity, the trial implicitly invokes the conflict in France between freedom of speech and freedom of thought and religion and hate speech in the context of terrorist activity that has caused deaths of innocent people. Freedom of conscience like freedom of speech is protected by the 1789 Declaration of Human and Civil Rights and by the Constitution. In France, as in all democratic countries, free communication of ideas and opinions is vital. However, the law also prohibits hate speech, and laws protect individuals and groups from being defamed or insulted concerning identification with ethnic, national, racial, religious, sexual, gender orientations. Inherent in the present French issue is whether blasphemy, specifically against Islam, is a crime.
Accusation of blasphemy was the alleged basis for terrorist activity in France. In September 2005, the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten published twelve satirical cartoons about Islam. The one considered most offensive by Muslims was the cartoon showing the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. The French magazine Charlie Hebdo, C.H., in a special issue republished the cartoons on February 9, 2006. As a result, criminal proceedings for insulting the prophet on grounds of religion were brought against the chief editor, Philip Val, but he was acquitted in a trial in March 2007. C.H. published other satirical cartoons of Mohammed in September 2012.
Declaring they were avenging the prophet, on January 7, 2015, two Islamist gunmen, the Kouachi brothers of Algerian descent, forced an entrance into the Paris headquarters of C.H., killing 12 people and wounding another 11.
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“Writer Kevin Alfred Strom said, “To find out who rules you, find out who you can not criticize.”
Did anyone really believe that the French would really investigate and hold accountable the terrorists responsible for burning Notre Dame? France has been transformed beyond repair. Forget France. Absolutely no American treasure or blood should be spent or shed on their behalf.
In 1930’s Germany, criticizing the Nazis could get you beaten up by the Brownshirts. When the Nazis took over, criticizing the Nazis became a crime.
It explains what happened to the Jews in Germany. The Nazis preached hatred of the Jews and the Jews weren’t allowed to disagree openly. Many German Jews expressed the idea that the Nazis were just talking and wouldn’t actually do anything.
I was listening to a podcast by a German Jew that served in the US Army and he expressed concern about “neo-Nazis” in Germany. My first thought was “You are allowed to criticize neo-Nazis”.
And do not use such insensitive words as lactose intolerant. It hurts their feelings!
Penalties for offending well be SEVERE. UNDERSTAND?
My Grampa fought in France in WWI. He couldn’t stand the French. He called them Frogs. He told us kids stories about the trenches,fighting Turks,bodies moving in the dirt from gas and maggots. And then showed us the huge hole in his calf from a mauser round. I’ve passed those stories down to my kids and grandkids.
Then it's not "Free". As we have seen in the U.S., anything and everything can be deemed "hate speech", even simply having the flag of our nation, Old Glory, sewn on a jacket as a patch or printed on a t-shirt.
Good move, everyone’s guilty so we can get the real trouble makers. This is just one small thing we have to look forward too
Don’t we do the same thing at airports?
Think about it next time you go through airport security in the USA.
My grandfather was a WW1 too and had the same opinion of the French.
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