12 dead in attack on Paris newspaper; France goes on alert
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The only real unseen here is that France can communicate their chosen political statement because of this.
And thank goodness for that, because if this happened in Canada, Australia or Britain we would be getting an earful of ramped up rhetoric that does nothing except serve to instill fear.
And thank goodness for that, because if this happened in Canada, Australia or Britain we would be getting an earful of ramped up rhetoric that does nothing except serve to instill fear.
Ya, some idiot in his basement knows everything.
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Fear of criticising Islam has given Britain self-imposed blasphemy law, warns former archbishop Carey
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey said the Press should be encouraged to print controversial material, even if Muslims find it offensive.
Fear of criticising Islam has given Britain self-imposed blasphemy law, warns former archbishop Carey* | Daily Mail Online
It is 'lazy' to claim the Paris terror attacks had nothing to do with Islam and British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism, says minister
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, who became the first Muslim Tory MP after being elected in 2010, attacked the 'barbaric' terrorists responsible for last week's atrocities.
British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism, says Sajid Javid | Daily Mail Online
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey said the Press should be encouraged to print controversial material, even if Muslims find it offensive.
Fear of criticising Islam has given Britain self-imposed blasphemy law, warns former archbishop Carey* | Daily Mail Online
It is 'lazy' to claim the Paris terror attacks had nothing to do with Islam and British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism, says minister
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid, who became the first Muslim Tory MP after being elected in 2010, attacked the 'barbaric' terrorists responsible for last week's atrocities.
British Muslims need to do more to tackle extremism, says Sajid Javid | Daily Mail Online
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett This map of where 6 billion tweets came from provides context for #JeSuisCharlie hashtag map
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Islam had nothing to do with this (and other fibs you’re likely to hear)
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Rod Liddle
11 January 2015 19:58
The Spectator
Various heads of state and government at today's march in Paris (Photo: Getty)
I don’t always agree with Peter Hitchens but this is by far the best piece I’ve seen on the political reaction to the Paris attacks.
As far as Cameron, Miliband and Clegg are concerned, we must all sign up to these shibboleths:
1. The attack was nothing to do with Islam.
2. Almost all Muslims, here and abroad, found those attacks repugnant.
3. The attacks were perpetrated and supported by a minuscule number of people who can simply be defined as ‘terrorists’.
4. Immigration and multiculturalism were in no way contributory causes of either the Paris attack or the attacks which we might experience in the future or have suffered in the past.
All four of those easy, expedient, shibboleths are palpably wrong.
Islam had nothing to do with this (and other fibs you're likely to hear) » Spectator Blogs
Broadcast last night, this latest episode of the BBC's Panorama, the world's longest-running current affairs television programme, sees John Ware hearing from Muslims facing an angry backlash for trying to promote a form of Islam which is in synch with British values:
Panorama - The Battle for British Islam
As France tries to come to terms with the deaths of the 12 people murdered in the Islamist attack at the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, Panorama investigates the battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims. John Ware hears from Muslims facing an angry backlash for trying to promote a form of Islam which is in synch with British values. They believe that the way Islam has been practised here has more in common with extremist ideologies than some police officers, politicians or Muslim leaders have been prepared to admit.
WATCH IT HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b050nj0z/panorama-the-battle-for-british-islam#long-description
The BBC: Blaming the Jews for attacks on Jews
Nick Cohen Follow @nickcohen4
The Spectator
12 January 2015 11:08
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Video: "Palestinians suffered hugely at Jewish hands" -- BBC's Tim Wilcox to scared Jewish lady in Paris:
"Palestinians suffered hugely at Jewish hands" -- BBC's Tim Wilcox to scared Jewish lady in Paris: - YouTube
Heaven forbid that such an atrocity should happen, but suppose white racists attacked a mosque today, murdering four people.
Crowds gather to show solidarity with the dead. They profess support for their friends and families and their horror at sectarian murder. The assassins killed their victims for no other reason than they were Muslims. That was it. All they had done was stick to their faith.
A BBC reporter called Tim Wilcox joins the mourners, and buttonholes an elderly and not very articulate Asian lady.
‘The situation is going back to the days of 1930s Europe,’ she says, as she recalls the last time racist murders swept the continent.
‘Do you think that can be resolved before it is too late?’ the reporter asks.
Cheeringly, the woman refuses to let despair overcome her. ‘Of course. We must not be afraid to say that Muslims are a target now…’
Before she can get her words out, Wilcox shuts her up. ‘Many critics of Islam would say that Christians in the Middle East suffer hugely at Muslim hands as well.’
‘We can’t do an amalgam,’ the woman mutters – as I said her English is not good.
‘But, but,’ interrupts Wilcox, as he tries to stop her saying that the behaviour of Isis or the Taliban or the Saudi religious police or the killers who targeted Charlie Hebdo cannot possibly justify attacks on innocent Muslims, ‘you understand everything is seen in different perspectives’.
Of course, Wilcox would never say such a thing after the murder of Muslims, and rightly so. He was interviewing an elderly Jewish lady, who was trying to mourn Jews killed for no other reason than they were Jews in a Paris supermarket.
Change the religion – make it Judaism, to be precise. Change Islamism to Israel, and the most grotesque apologies for murder become acceptable; standard even. Jews must bear collective responsibility for Israel’s crimes real and imagined.
People are demanding that the BBC fire Wilcox. I disagree for two reasons. First you do not respond to an attack on a newspaper by firing journalists. More important, Wilcox is not some isolated and aberrant racist; his views are the standard opinions of the European left middle class. I meet them every day in my political neighbourhood. They are the result of ignorance rather than malice. (Although I find that in time a dark alchemy can transform ignorance into malice.)
Wilcox like so many others does not understand that anti-Semitism is not a rational, if regrettably bloody, critique of Israeli foreign policy but an insane conspiracy theory that has captured the minds of millions of fanatics, moved whole nations and led to uncountable deaths.
I wonder how many more bombs it will take to blow these people out of their folly. In my bleaker moments, I suspect they will take it to their graves.
The BBC: Blaming the Jews for attacks on Jews » Spectator Blogs
Panorama - The Battle for British Islam
As France tries to come to terms with the deaths of the 12 people murdered in the Islamist attack at the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, Panorama investigates the battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims. John Ware hears from Muslims facing an angry backlash for trying to promote a form of Islam which is in synch with British values. They believe that the way Islam has been practised here has more in common with extremist ideologies than some police officers, politicians or Muslim leaders have been prepared to admit.
WATCH IT HERE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b050nj0z/panorama-the-battle-for-british-islam#long-description
The BBC: Blaming the Jews for attacks on Jews
Nick Cohen Follow @nickcohen4
The Spectator
12 January 2015 11:08
468 Comments
Video: "Palestinians suffered hugely at Jewish hands" -- BBC's Tim Wilcox to scared Jewish lady in Paris:
"Palestinians suffered hugely at Jewish hands" -- BBC's Tim Wilcox to scared Jewish lady in Paris: - YouTube
Heaven forbid that such an atrocity should happen, but suppose white racists attacked a mosque today, murdering four people.
Crowds gather to show solidarity with the dead. They profess support for their friends and families and their horror at sectarian murder. The assassins killed their victims for no other reason than they were Muslims. That was it. All they had done was stick to their faith.
A BBC reporter called Tim Wilcox joins the mourners, and buttonholes an elderly and not very articulate Asian lady.
‘The situation is going back to the days of 1930s Europe,’ she says, as she recalls the last time racist murders swept the continent.
‘Do you think that can be resolved before it is too late?’ the reporter asks.
Cheeringly, the woman refuses to let despair overcome her. ‘Of course. We must not be afraid to say that Muslims are a target now…’
Before she can get her words out, Wilcox shuts her up. ‘Many critics of Islam would say that Christians in the Middle East suffer hugely at Muslim hands as well.’
‘We can’t do an amalgam,’ the woman mutters – as I said her English is not good.
‘But, but,’ interrupts Wilcox, as he tries to stop her saying that the behaviour of Isis or the Taliban or the Saudi religious police or the killers who targeted Charlie Hebdo cannot possibly justify attacks on innocent Muslims, ‘you understand everything is seen in different perspectives’.
Of course, Wilcox would never say such a thing after the murder of Muslims, and rightly so. He was interviewing an elderly Jewish lady, who was trying to mourn Jews killed for no other reason than they were Jews in a Paris supermarket.
Change the religion – make it Judaism, to be precise. Change Islamism to Israel, and the most grotesque apologies for murder become acceptable; standard even. Jews must bear collective responsibility for Israel’s crimes real and imagined.
People are demanding that the BBC fire Wilcox. I disagree for two reasons. First you do not respond to an attack on a newspaper by firing journalists. More important, Wilcox is not some isolated and aberrant racist; his views are the standard opinions of the European left middle class. I meet them every day in my political neighbourhood. They are the result of ignorance rather than malice. (Although I find that in time a dark alchemy can transform ignorance into malice.)
Wilcox like so many others does not understand that anti-Semitism is not a rational, if regrettably bloody, critique of Israeli foreign policy but an insane conspiracy theory that has captured the minds of millions of fanatics, moved whole nations and led to uncountable deaths.
I wonder how many more bombs it will take to blow these people out of their folly. In my bleaker moments, I suspect they will take it to their graves.
The BBC: Blaming the Jews for attacks on Jews » Spectator Blogs
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Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris
The ex-pat artist, who has lived in France for 25 years, talks to the Observer about his new cartoon of Muhammed
Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced. The creator of counter culture icons like Fritz the Cat, the Keep On Truckin guy and Mr Natural, Mr. Crumb was inducted into the comic book Hall of Fame in 1991, the same year he moved his family to France, where he has resided ever since. Writer Celia Farber reached him at his home on Friday, January 9, 2015, to talk about the massacre of cartoonists and others in Paris this week.
Celia Farber: Have journalists been calling you today to talk about the assassinations at Charlie Hebdo? Are you willing to talk about it?
Robert Crumb: Liberation wanted me to draw a cartoon, so I did this cartoon for Liberation about it. So far, you are the first American journalist that’s asked me to talk about it. I’ll talk about it, yeah.
No other journalists have called you? Really?
No, you’re the only one. You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.
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Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris | New York Observer
The ex-pat artist, who has lived in France for 25 years, talks to the Observer about his new cartoon of Muhammed
Robert Crumb is considered by many to be the single best cartoonist America has ever produced. The creator of counter culture icons like Fritz the Cat, the Keep On Truckin guy and Mr Natural, Mr. Crumb was inducted into the comic book Hall of Fame in 1991, the same year he moved his family to France, where he has resided ever since. Writer Celia Farber reached him at his home on Friday, January 9, 2015, to talk about the massacre of cartoonists and others in Paris this week.
Celia Farber: Have journalists been calling you today to talk about the assassinations at Charlie Hebdo? Are you willing to talk about it?
Robert Crumb: Liberation wanted me to draw a cartoon, so I did this cartoon for Liberation about it. So far, you are the first American journalist that’s asked me to talk about it. I’ll talk about it, yeah.
No other journalists have called you? Really?
No, you’re the only one. You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.
more
Legendary Cartoonist Robert Crumb on the Massacre in Paris | New York Observer
John Cardillo @johncardillo 
Copy forgot to include Jews in there as they put people in jail for cartoons. Not published, jailed for talking to a publisher. I just love it when your hyprocracy is neck deep
Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh sentenced to 5 months in prison – Mondoweiss
According to the following report Saba’aneh’s lawyer informs Mohammad had contacted a publisher in Amman Jordan who published a book about Palestinian prisoners. Possibly Israel considers books about Palestinian prisoners a threat to their security.
The Cartoon Movement, courtesy of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), Mohammad Saba’aneh Sentenced to Five Months in Prison:
Thursday April 4, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh was sentenced by a military court in Salem to five months in prison and a fine of 10,000 shekels for ‘contact with a hostile organization’. The news is confirmed by Mohammad’s brother Adel and his lawyer Riadh Arda.
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- See more at: Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh sentenced to 5 months in prison – Mondoweiss……..
And Charlie Hebdo is back, about to print 3 million copies with Mohammad on the cover. This is a cover worth having.
Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad | Media | The Guardian
The front cover of Wednesday’s edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the first since last week’s attack on its Paris offices that left 12 people dead, is a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad.
The cover shows the prophet shedding a tear and holding up a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” in sympathy with the dead journalists. The headline says “All is forgiven”.
Zineb El Rhazoui, a surviving columnist at Charlie Hebdo magazine who worked on the new issue, said the cover was a call to forgive the terrorists who murdered her colleagues last week, saying she did not feel hate towards Chérif and Saïd Kouachi despite their deadly attack on the magazine, and urged Muslims to accept humour.
“We don’t feel any hate to them. We know that the struggle is not with them as people, but the struggle is with an ideology,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad | Media | The Guardian
The front cover of Wednesday’s edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the first since last week’s attack on its Paris offices that left 12 people dead, is a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad.
The cover shows the prophet shedding a tear and holding up a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” in sympathy with the dead journalists. The headline says “All is forgiven”.
Zineb El Rhazoui, a surviving columnist at Charlie Hebdo magazine who worked on the new issue, said the cover was a call to forgive the terrorists who murdered her colleagues last week, saying she did not feel hate towards Chérif and Saïd Kouachi despite their deadly attack on the magazine, and urged Muslims to accept humour.
“We don’t feel any hate to them. We know that the struggle is not with them as people, but the struggle is with an ideology,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
