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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]There. You just drew a line on FREEDOM of speech. Why do you get to draw the line on what is acceptable and unacceptable? Why can I insult, satire and deeply offend billions of   Muslims & Christians but I can't do the same to holocaust survivors? Because they're more offended by it? Ridiculous, a complete hypocritical definition of 'freedom of speech!  If you are going to have freedom of speech to insult the prophet of Islam, then you do have a right to say anything you want about the Holocaust, no matter how much offense you or anyone else takes with it.[/quote]

As has been repeatedly mentioned in this forum, and as any French person knows, CH mocked everyone -- including Jews. As any French person also knows, they were anti-racists, who used seemingly racists cartoons precisely to make their points.  We can argue that their cartoons are distasteful and offensive.  But if you can't see that Dieudonne is fundamentally different  -- HATE speech, to incite hatred against a particular religious group, as exemplified by the quotes above, which are just a sample of what your "comedian" routinely says -- then you are part of the problem.

What troubles me the most is that you don't see that this vitriol is received by frustrated and impressionable young kids from the banlieues as a role model -- and then you see them doing the quenelle in front of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries.  I thought you thought radical ignorance was the problem.  You should denounce Dieudonne as even more dangerous to your community than some silly cartoons.  You are choosing not to.

And when you repeatedly imply that the only reason Dieudonne was banned was because he simply said "Jews are crooks," and nothing else, as your earlier posts indicate, then you are dishonest.

By the way, when I read some of your earlier contributions in the other thread, I thought you were bringing a useful perspective.  I agreed with you that the burka ban is wrong, and defended your position.  I also agreed that there is increasing xenophobia in France and Europe, and highlighted that the fact that Front National (Dieudonne is pal of some FN bigots, like Le Pen father, by the way) getting 30% is a problem.  But you are now ranting.  As someone said, you have lost all credibility and the good will of many people like me who wanted to agree with you and wanted to support your views.  You have alienated lots of people here.  Of course you can say whatever you want.  But you had an opportunity to bring a useful perspective to this forum.  You squandered it.  I am sure you don't care.

I won't be replying to your post anymore, but I am sure you are going to call me an hypocrite and the like.  Feel free to do so.
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Slow clap.  A-freaking-men.[/quote]

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