
They are trying to cause trouble and thrive on selling their piece of shit irresponsible journalism and satire to a public only to willing to be easily swayed and to swallow it up. I am not in any way excusing anyone violently protesting against this sort of thing - that sort of action is unacceptable, but I don't blame people asking why someone would do this - again? That's not to say they weren't allowed to have freedom of expression but if you're going to do something that's clearly going to annoy a group of people, and you still proceed to do it even with that knowledge, you have to take responsibility. Well this time you can't say they didn't know what they were getting into. why should I care that they are offended?
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They have a right to be offended and to use their free speech to show anger at the cartoons, but instead they demand free speech be scrapped and replaced with Allah-approved Speech (TM) and run around killing people. I might just frame the cartoons on my wall and wait for the moderate Muslims to burn down my house. What more do we expect from the Religion of Peace (TM)?Īt first I might have cared but after seeing how the peaceful Muslims responded last time, I'm past caring, infact I might actually take delight in them being offended and seeing how well they handle it (killing nuns, bomb threats. Us not being under Sharia probably offends half of them too, I'm not converting to stop them yelling and sending bomb threats. why should I care that a Swedish newspaper used its right to free speech to publish something that a bunch of angry Muslims took offence at? Molenbeek, which has a large Muslim population, has become notorious as a radical hotbed.Any thing offends the religion of peace, they love the chance to riot and burn.Ĭry me a river. Neighbouring Belgium has, like France, seen a number of attacks in recent years. His comments were denounced across the Muslim world, with protests and calls to boycott French products. The magazine that originally published the images, Charlie Hebdo, was the target of an extremist attack in 2015 that killed 12 people.įollowing 47-year-old Paty's murder, French President Emmanuel Macron mounted an impassioned defence of free expression, including a cartoonist's right to lampoon religious figures. French law is strictly secular and religious belief receives no special protection. Some Muslims regard any image of the prophet as blasphemous and a caricature as an offense against their faith. On Thursday, three people were killed in a knife attack in the southern city of Nice, again blamed on Islamist terrorism. Paty had been targeted by some angry parents after he showed the cartoon during a class on freedom of expression. Neighboring France remains in shock following the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty on October 16 in a town near Paris by a Chechen radical Islamist.

Freedom of expression is not negotiable!" If this is true, it would be simply unacceptable and intolerable. The suspension was quickly denounced by Belgian politicians, including Theo Francken from the nationalist New Flemish Alliance, who said on Twitter that the decision was "shocking."īelgian senator Georges Bouchez wrote: "I hope this information is not correct. Local media reported that the preliminary disciplinary hearing took place on Thursday. The cartoon shows the Prophet Muhammad naked, with genitals exposed, while on all fours. If it had not been of the Prophet we would have done the same thing," the spokesman said, adding that several of the children's parents had complained. "Our decision is uniquely based on the fact that these are obscene images. The newspaper Derniere Heure reported that the education authorities have launched disciplinary proceedings against the teacher.Ī spokesperson for the Molenbeek's mayor said the punitive action was taken due to the explicit nature of the cartoon and not specifically because caricature of Islam's founder was shown.

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