'Islam no longer religion of peace' Muslim Charlie Hebdo journalist hits out at extremists

[muriel_volestrangler]

107. Albertoo did refer to this, but you don't seem to have picked it up

(he mentioned "mass abduction and rape&quot .

Why Context Matters

Even the Boko Haram image, the one that seems to defy explanation and understanding can be read. In this cartoon, there are a group of women, all pregnant, all angrily shouting ‘Touchez pas a nos allocs’ (‘Hands off our welfare’.).The legend reads ‘Les Esclaves Sexuelles De Boko Haram en Colère’ (The Angry Sex Slaves of Boko Haram’.)

Everything about it suggests that they are treating the victims of kidnapping and sexual slavery as the welfare queen of conservative nightmares. But the immediate reading does not take into account Charlie Hebdo’s tradition of combining two topics into one image. In this case, in addition to the news about Boko Haram, Charlie was taking on the issue of potential cuts to welfare. Through this combination, they mock the French anxieties, giving life to nightmares through reductio ad absurdum: victims of violence are the greatest threat to France. This is the Right’s nightmare vision of the welfare queen. It is a Charlie Hebdo version of Stephen Colbert.

http://souciant.com/2015/01/why-context-matters/

You can tell it's not just a straightforward attack on Muslim women in France, because it explicitly names them as the Boko Haram slaves; but they don't get welfare, so we know there's more to it than just an attack on a real group of women. As the article I kink says, you may or may not thinks it works well, but the context of what the news was when the cartoon is published is useful.