Quick, tell the stem-cell researchers!
February 1, 2006 by Laura | Trackback URI
A French newspaper has stood up to radical Islam by reprinting the cartoons that have sparked boycotts and bomb threats against Denmark. (h/t Powerline) Whatever caused the regrowth of France’s collective spine should be researched immediately. Given the trouble this has generated for Denmark and France’s high number of unassimilated Islamic citizens and immigrants, this is guaranteed to spark more riots and car burnings. France Soir took a clear stand against dhimmitude and for the rights of a free press in a democratic society.
Under the headline “Yes, we have the right to caricature God”, France Soir ran a front page cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud.
It shows the Christian deity saying: “Don’t complain, Muhammad, we’ve all been caricatured here.”
The full set of Danish drawings, some of which depict the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist, were printed on the inside pages.
Updated: It’s a trend! LGF notes that newspapers in Germany, Italy and Spain have also reprinted the cartoons.
But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings showing the prophet’s turban transformed into a bomb on its front page on Wednesday. It said the picture was “harmless” and expressed regret that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologized for causing offense.
“Democracy is the institutionalized form of freedom of expression,” the paper said in a front-page commentary. “There is no right to protection from satire in the West; there is a right to blasphemy.”
(emphasis is mine)
Updated again: No good deed goes unpunished. The France Soir manager was fired. Figures. But other European papers are sticking to their guns on this issue.
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