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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11346641/Charlie-Hebdo-founder-says-slain-editor-dragged-team-to-their-deaths.html

I tried to find one of the existing threads for this post, but they've all gone so far off-topic that none of them seemed appropriate.

"One of the founding members of Charlie Hebdo has accused its slain editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, or Charb, of “dragging the team” to their deaths by releasing increasingly provocative cartoons, as five million copies of the “survivors’ edition” went on sale."

Not only is this criticism interesting, but the reaction of Charlie Hebdo's lawyer was interesting:

"The accusation sparked a furious reaction from Richard Malka, Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer for the past 22 years, who sent an angry message to Mathieu Pigasse, one of the owners of Nouvel Obs and Le Monde. 'Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him.'"

Once again, we see the hypocrisy of an advocate of free expression. Promoting "freedom of expression" as a slogan is easy and, as we've seen, is easily done even by political leaders whose jails are full of journalists. But, in actual practice, just about everyone draws lines somewhere and nobody likes when there own personal lines are crossed.

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Of course. Every single person has a line they don't want crossed, whether it's saying "OMG!" or attending children's parties naked. That isn't the issue. The issue is, did one French person publicly say these things, and another French person publicly answered him, and nobody died? Yes, yes and yes. [B]That's free speech in action[/b].[/quote]

Not when you get fined or imprisoned for it.....
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Who exactly has been, or might be, fined or imprisoned?[/quote]

Just to name one, the Comedian Dieudonne has been fined and arrested by the French government numerous times on the basis that his shows were anti-Semitic and when he put on his Fbook page after the Paris attack "I am Charlie Coulibaly", even after he indicated it was satire...[/quote]

Which is an application of France's LAWS and begs the question: why didn't the terrorists sue in the COURTS instead of taking matters into their own hands? Or at least do some form of LEGAL passive resistance, which is also perfectly LEGAL in France.

France has LAWS exactly for this purpose. I don't know why this difference is so hard to understand. Every country sets parameters around free expression, including obscenity, nudity and hate speech. These parameters are highly unlikely to address everybody's pet concerns, instead they're some sort of middle ground arrived at through the ballot. If you llive in France, you abide by its anti-semitism LAWS (Coulibali) and you address your own concerns through France's LEGAl SYSTEM instead of taking matters into your own hands and killing people. If you think there should  be an anti-Islamophobia LAW, then lobby for it.

(Sorry for the caps, but I don't get why this distinction between LAWS vs. vigilante/mob justice is so hard to understand.)[/quote]

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