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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just reading about the violent protests in Jordan and Niger.  In Niger, they are attacking and burning down churches and christians businesses.  [/quote]

I'm more concerned about the threats made against Duke because they were going to allow muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from the chapel.  That is terrorism that succeeded in stifling free speech, right here in America.  And no one seems to care. [/quote]

+1 Rising Islamophobia. Vox stated that they didn't receive any threats from their Muslim readership about posting the CH cartoons but received many threats for covering Islamophobia.

Full article here : http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats
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Writers at Vox have indeed been bombarded with threats for our Charlie Hebdo coverage. But not one of those threats has come from a Muslim or in response to publishing anti-Islam cartoons. Revealingly, they have rather all come from non-Muslims furious at our articles criticizing Islamophobia.

Our coverage of Islamophobia has brought a very different response. Articles decrying anti-Muslim bigotry and attacks on mosques have been met with dozens of threats on email and social media.

The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will "behead you one day" so that "we will never have to read your trash again." Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as "May you rot in hell."

Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read "I agree with maher  Kill them all" — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, "Fuck you and any cunt who believes in allah."

As is often the case, the strongest threats have been reserved for women. One writer received a message arguing that someone should "put a gun up your ass" to make her understand terrorism.

Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary "defenses" of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold.
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