Satire Does Not Always Involve Humor. The Most Powerful Satire Never Does.

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116. As to your analogy, its flawed because the Muslims are in France

Where the lampooning of religious folks and religion in particular has a long and proud tradition going back hundreds of years. France relishes its secular traditions.

The Muslim immigrants in France are objecting to FRENCH culture. The satirists were doing a particularly French thing so the immigrants (akin to the tourist in a foreign culture) should understand that their religion and religious icons will be mocked.

So to answer your questions: no I wouldn't take a picture because its THEIR culture and I'd respect that. I'd understand that before I went or even settled there.

Furthermore, magazine cartoonists rarely (probably never but I'll cut some slack here), ask permission before they satirize someone or something. So the permission analogy is bizarre and doesn't work there either.

Lastly, the Charlie Hebdo cartoon has a generic cleric holding the Quran. The guy obviously represents the Islamist people in the revolution but it most definitely does not imply Morsi specifically. That you have interpreted it as mocking mass murder didn't occur to me at all and is entirely your interpretation (see, here we are at the arbiter thing again...).

Besides Morsi, the head of Egypt at the time is still alive, very unlike Charbo, the head of Charlie Hebdo.