Charlie Hebdo Is Heroic and Racist

[Pooka Fey]

69. So basically you have to convert to Islam in order to have standing to criticize the religion?

Otherwise you're engaging in bigotry. How nice and neat for Dr. Mahmood Mamdani. What defines a 'tradition'? Does anyone else see the intellectual problem, here? Freedom of expression can only exist within one's own tradition? So French Muslims are off the table to French atheists. I don't agree. What an absolute crock of shit.

Both parties were French citizens - both the Islamic terrorists and the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo - and thus hold a common tradition of mutual citizenship in a Western democracy with its rights and responsibilities. Both parties share a cultural 'tradition' of free expression guaranteed by their government the French Republic.

Let's remember that Muslim organizations had already sued the magazine in the French courts and LOST. Catholic organizations had also taken the magazine to court and LOST. Any French Muslim is free to sue any organization, such as a magazine, in the French court for bigotry. The French courts found no bigotry in this case.

In the cartoon debate now linked to a brutal terrorist attack, there has been a neat exchange of ideas between citizens of a free society. The cartoonists expressed their ideas artistically. The terrorists expressed their ideas using murderous violence and mayhem.

I conclude by saying "WTF???!!!"

Professor Pooka Fey