Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition & Religion
Newsletter published on 21 January 2015
(1)
Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition & Religion - by
Peter
Myers, January 21, 2015
(2) Charlie Hebdo asserts right to Blasphemy, depicts
Jesus sodomising God
(3) Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier ties to
French Communist
Party (PCF) & Left Party (Parti de gauche)
(4)
Charlie Hebdo, FEMEN & Pussy Riot disparage Islam & Xty;
anti-Semitic cartoonist was sacked
(5) Charlie Hebdo's ten most offensive
cartoons (mainly aimed at Islam &
Christianity)
(6) Charlie Hebdo
opposed "anti-Semitism" and "excessive criticism of
Israel"
(7) French
government forced Twitter to give them the data on
anti-Semitic posts
(8)
Dieudonne banned from performing - because anti-Semitic
(9) Je Suis Dieudo:
France accused of 'double standards' as Dieudonne
arrested
(10) BBC
reporter forced to apologize for saying "Palestinians suffer
hugely at
Jewish hands as well" at Paris rally
(11) Simon Schama comes out as a
Zionist
(12) Did Mossad Do Charlie Hebdo, to further Clash of Civilizations?
-
Brother Nathanael
(13) Marine Le Pen: stop the free movement of peoples
and goods;
reinstate border checks
(14) Geert Wilders a connection
between Marine Le Pen and Israel
(15) Le Pen and Wilders plan to 'wreck' EU
from within
(16) Topless feminist activist grabs baby Jesus statue in St
Peter's Square
(17) Putin & Obama take sides in the Culture War
(18)
Kremlin accuses Hebdo of provoking the attack; Muslim mobs target
Christians
(19) Erdogan warns that Charlie Hebdo is bringing the Clash of
Civilizations thesis to life
(20) Daniel Cohn-Bendit, & some Trots,
condemn Charlie Hebdo for
Provocation promoting the Clash of
Civilizations
(21) Kosher Grocery Victims charged $13K for Jerusalem
Funerals
(1) Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition &
Religion - by
Peter Myers, January 21, 2015
The Culture War grew out
of the 60s Movement. Many of us, including
myself, participated in it
without realizing where it was going.
We knew that it was led by
Communists and Anarchists, but we only saw a
good side: ending the Vietnam
War, saving the environment, escaping
social conventions, freedom from
religious dogmas and strictures.
The nice people in the movement dropped
out; the hardliners stayed in,
and proceeded to destroy our civilization -
Western Civilization. We did
not realize until it was too late.
The
push for Gay Marriage is not about individual rights, but about
destroying
the social structure. Marriage and the Family are its
bedrock. Every human
society up until now has been based on them, but
Communists believe there's
no Human Nature and that "Man Makes Himself".
Gay Marriage was pioneered
by Communists, but later adopted and marketed
by Liberals.
Charlie
Hebdo was one of the main Culture Warriors on that Communist
side. Pussy
Riot is another.
In media reports, the Culture War is often mis-defined.
We are told that
Muslim Fundamentalists are waging a Culture War against the
Liberal West.
In reality, that Liberal West is not the real West at all,
but a
Communist entity waging war against all tradition - whether Christian,
Muslim, Asian or Aboriginal.
The editor of Charlie Hebdo, Stéphane
Charbonnier, was a member of the
French Communist Party (PCF); he also had
strong ties to the Left Party
(Parti de gauche), led by Jean-Luc
Mélenchon.
Charbonnier was a militant atheist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charb>.
Under
Charbonnier, Charlie Hebdo ridiculed not only Islam but also
Christianity.
Here is a cartoon depicting Sodomy between Jesus, God
& the Holy Spirit:
http://www.australiamatters.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/hebdo_jesus_slander.jpg
Yet,
in the backlash over the cartoons, Muslim mobs have attacked
Christians
(item 18), not realizing that they too were targets of
Charlie Hebdo. This
magazine has fanned the Clash of Civilizations.
An earlier editor of
Charlie Hebdo was sacked for anti-Semitism (item
6). Since then, it seems,
Jews and Judaism have largely escaped the
magazine's venom.
Some
Trots, Greens, & Anarchists, eg Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Socialist
Alliance,
and the WSWS site, condemn Charlie Hebdo for Provocation
promoting the
Clash of Civilizations. They realize that their Culture
War, once taken too
far, might lead the French to install Marine Le-Pen
to power, and that she
will end the Culture War.
(2) Charlie Hebdo asserts right to Blasphemy,
depicts Jesus sodomising God
http://m.christianpost.com/news/holy-trinity-portrayed-in-sodomy-jesus-labeled-as-child-of-sin-charlie-hebdo-issues-that-led-to-christian-lawsuits-132514/
Holy
Trinity Portrayed in Sodomy, Jesus Labeled as 'Child of Sin;'
Charlie Hebdo
Issues That Led to Christian Lawsuits
By Vincent Funaro
January
13, 2015 | 3:10 pm
People in France marched on Sunday in an unprecedented
tribute to this
week's victims of the shootings by gunmen at the offices of
the
satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the killing of a policewoman
in Montrouge, and the hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket at the
Porte de Vincennes.
Before radical Islamic terrorists attacked the
offices of satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris last Wednesday, which
left 12 people
dead, including the publication's editor and four
cartoonists, the
controversial magazine had already sustained a firebomb
attack by
Muslims in 2011, and was sued 13 times by Catholic organizations
for its
offensive depictions of popes, Jesus Christ and the Holy
Trinity.
The Catholic groups reportedly filed the lawsuits in reaction to
several
offensive covers that depict Christian figures, such as the Holy
Trinity
and Pope Benedict XVI, in compromising positions. One of the covers
features an older man as God, a drawing of Jesus, and something that
resembles the eye of horus meant to be the Holy Spirit, all engaged in
sodomy. The drawing was intended to mock the Catholic Church's
opposition to gay marriage.
Another cover features what appears to be
Benedict XVI uttering the
words "God doesn't exist! That turd! I had my
doubts!"
Another controversial issue features a fictional retelling of
the story
of the birth of Jesus and suggests that He was a child of sin,
scourge
of dragons, sandpit faith healer, child-killer, blinder of men,
hyperactive child king, tormentor of His teachers, and apprentice
prophet.
Jesus is also featured on a Charlie Hebdo cover being crucified
on the
cross telling officials at the Vatican to let Him down so that He can
vote in the papal elections. It reads: "Another Rigged Election! Let me
down, I want to vote."
The drawings featured on the covers were
defended by artist Bernard
Velhac who was gunned down in the Paris killings
on Jan. 7. Velhac had
defended the publication's cartoons by saying they
have the "right to
Blasphemy."
Artist Stéphane Charbonnier, who was
also killed in last Wednesday's
attacks, had joined his colleagues in
defending the drawings back in
2012. "We publish caricatures every week, but
people only describe them
as declarations of war when it's about the person
of the prophet or
radical Islam."
Catholic League President Bill
Donohue spoke out about last week's
terrorist attacks in a statement in
which he said "Muslims are right to
be angry" over Charlie Hebdo's
controversial cartoons. He stated that
the cartoonists "abused freedom" with
their offensive pictures that have
insulted various religions over the
years.
Last week's attack was led by three gunmen who stormed the offices
of
the French satirical magazine carrying AK-47s and a rocket launcher.
They killed 12 and wounded five others. The attack was a response from
Muslim jihadists angered by a cover that featured the Muslim prophet
Muhammad.
(3) Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier ties to
French Communist
Party (PCF) & Left Party (Parti de gauche)
https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/charlie-hebdo-publishes-new-mohammed-cartoons/
Charlie
Hebdo Publishes New Mohammed Cartoons.
Charlie Hebdo has just published
new Mohammed cartoons.
Middle East onLine reports,
French
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday anyone
offended by cartoons
of the Prophet Mohammed published in the French
satirical magazine Charlie
Hebdo could take the matter to the courts.
But he emphasised
France's tradition of free speech. "We are in a
country where freedom of
expression is guaranteed, including the freedom
to caricature," he said on
RTL radio.
You can see some of the cartoons (including the most
controversial one)
on this video-clip here.
The Editor of Charlie
Hebdo, Charb, (Stéphane Charbonnier) is a
supporter of the Front de Gauche
and the French Communist Party (PCF).
Charlie itself is one of the last
living representatives of '68' gauchisme.
There are many, including not a
few on the French left, who will accuse
it of 'provocation'.
This is
like complaining that chilis are hot.
A minority on the French left, like
the Les Indigènes de la République,*
self-appointed enforcers against
Islamophobia, will be up in arms about
the cartoons.
They excelled
themselves this weekend by physically threatening gay
secularist Caroline
Fourest at the La fête de l'Huma and preventing her
from speaking (you can
see a video of their violence here).
Emboldened by their menaces against
a lesbian feminist, and, according
to those who were at the fête, a North
African woman steward, they will
no doubt rage against Charlie.
As
will many, many, others.
This is Charb's response,
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2012/09/19/1226477/536311-hebdo.jpg
More
extensive interview with Charb in Libèration (in French), <<Pas
plus
de provocation avec l'islam qu'avec d'autres sujets>>.
The leader
of the French Communist Party (PCF), Pierre Laurent, is
cited in the same
paper,
Charlie Hebdo fait partie d'une certaine tradition. A ce que
je
sache, le délit de blasphème n'existe pas dans notre pays. Après, il y a
des gens qui aiment et des gens qui n'aiment pas Charlie Hebdo.
Il n'y a en France qu'une dizaine de salafistes. Il ne faut pas
exagérer la
situation et ne pas faire de la publication de ces
caricatures un drame qui
n'en est pas un"
Charlie Hebdo comes from a specific tradition. As
far as I know
Blasphemy is not a crime in our country. There are, following
that,
those who like and those who dislike Charlie Hebdo.
In
France there are only a dozen Salafists. We should not
exaggerate the
situation, and not create a drama out of these
caricatures when none
exists.
Update.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Parti de gauche) has just said
on his Facebook page,
La caricature est un droit dans ce pays, et la
protestation tout autant
: le tout dans le respect de la loi. It is legal to
draw caricatures in
this country, as are protests. Each should be done
within the law. [...]
(4) Charlie Hebdo, FEMEN & Pussy Riot disparage
Islam & Xty;
anti-Semitic cartoonist was sacked
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/01/20/charlie-hebdo-and-its-anti-gentile-allies.html
<<Charlie
Hebdo>> and its Anti-Gentile Allies
Wayne MADSEN | 20.01.2015 |
00:00
In the wake of the terrorist attack against the French satirical
newspaper <<Charlie Hebdo>>, it has become apparent that the
magazine's
editorial chiefs killed in the attack on its headquarters in
Paris and
groups such as FEMEN and Pussy Riot are all connected in a
campaign to
disparage Islam and Christianity. In the aftermath of the
terrorist
attack, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the
occasion of
the memorial service in Paris attended by a number of world
leaders to
admonish France's parliament for having recently recognized the
independence of Palestine and urge France's large Jewish population to
emigrate to Israel.
It was also reported that French President
François Hollande
specifically did not invite Netanyahu to Paris but that
the Israeli
Prime Minister appeared nevertheless just so he could insult his
French
hosts and politicize the memorial service for the 17 victims for his
own
selfish political purposes. Netanyahu's antics in Paris were followed by
a visit to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls by members of the
Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, which
represents 50 national Jewish groups in the United States, to urge
France to withdrawal its recognition of Palestine in the wake of the
attacks on the <<Charlie Hebdo>> offices and the Hyper Cacher
Jewish
supermarket in Paris.
The entire <<Charlie Hebdo>>
affair has laid bare the inner workings of
a newspaper that began as a
left-wing counter-culture mocker of the
establishment in the aftermath of
the Paris Spring uprising of 1968.
<<Charlie>> is a reference to
French President Charles De Gaulle who was
forced out of office as a result
of the Paris student riots of 1968.
The assassination by two
Franco-Algerian brothers, Said and Cherif
Kouachi, of <<Charlie
Hebdo>> chief editor Stephane Charbonnier, known
as
<<Charb>> to his readers, and three of his top cartoonists, was no
surprise to Henri Roussel, the magazine's founder and original editor
whose pen name is Delfeil de Ton. In an interview with <<Nouvel
Observateur,>> Roussel said he warned Charb against provoking Muslims
with repeated cartoons, some gratuitously sexual, of the Prophet
Mohammed. Roussel said that one of the slain cartoonists feared that the
cartoons would come back to <<haunt>> the newspaper, which
suffered an
arson attack in 2011. The attack came after the magazine
published a
Mohammed cartoon on its front cover. Roussel said of the 2011
cartoon:
<<He [Charb] shouldn't have done it, but Charb did it again a
year
later, in September 2012.>>
Roussel also accused
Charbonnier's predecessor, Philippe Val, of turning
<<Charlie
Hebdo>> into a Zionist and Islamophobic publication. Roussel
cited
Val's firing in 2009 of longtime <<Charlie Hebdo>> cartoonist
Maurice Sine for drawing a cartoon lampooning Jean Sarkozy's marriage to
the heiress of a Jewish electronics store chain and his subsequent
conversion to Judaism. The cartoon suggested that the son of former
French president Nicolas Sarkozy married the heiress of the Darty store
chain in order to further his political career. The cartoon bore the
notation: <<The lad will go far.>> Val considered the cartoon to
be
<<anti-Semitic.>> Sine told Val that he would <<rather
cut off [his own]
balls>> than accede to Val's demand for an apology
to Jewish groups that
were offended by the cartoon. Sine began his own
publication <<Sine
Hebdo>> with the money he was awarded by a
French court for wrongful
dismissal by <<Charlie Hebdo.>>
<<Hebdo>> is the French word for
<<weekly.>>
<<Charlie Hebdo's>> new editor,
Gérard Biard, told NBC News that
<<Charlie Hebdo>> was an
<<atheist>> publication and that religion
should stay out of
politics. However, based on the revelations of
Roussel and Sine, it appears
that <<Charlie Hebdo>> is far from atheist
but a periodical that
defames Islam and Christianity while avoiding any
real criticism of Judaism.
This modus operandi is mirrored by the
feminist pressure groups Pussy Riot
and FEMEN, the latter largely
underwritten before its move from Kiev to
Paris by Jed Sunden, the
wealthy American Zionist and former publisher of
the <<Kyiv Post.>>
While both groups have committed heinous acts
at Orthodox Christian and
Roman Catholic cathedrals and Islamic mosques they
have never conducted
protests at misogynistic Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic
synagogues. FEMEN
and Pussy Riot have never criticized Israel even though
domestic Israeli
feminist groups have condemned Judaism's misogynistic
practices at
Jerusalem's Western Wall among other
locations.
Bare-breasted FEMEN activists have tried to steal the baby
Jesus
figurine from a Christmas nativity scene at St. Peter's Basilica in
Vatican City, urinated on the altar of La Madeleine Catholic church in
Paris, masturbated with crucifixes on St. Peter's Square in Vatican
City, physically assaulted the Roman Catholic archbishops of Brussels
and Madrid, vandalized property inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,
and sawed down a Christian cross in a park in Kiev. FEMEN also staged a
topless protest at a mosque in Stockholm. Pussy Riot conducted an
obscene prayer ceremony at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. Amina
Sboui, a Tunisian feminist, quit FEMEN after suggesting the group is
financed by Israel. Sara Winter, the Brazilian organizer of FEMEN, later
charged that the group was largely corrupt. Through his byzantine
network of non-profit organizations and non-governmental fronts, George
Soros's financial largesse eventually ends up in Pussy Riot's
coffers.
Muslims protesters in the main Muslim city of Marawi in the
Philippines
obviously saw a connection between <<Charlie Hebdo>>
and Israeli
interests when they burned posters of <<Charlie
Hebdo's>> front page
bearing a photograph of Netanyahu and the
headline of <<Zionist
Conspiracy.>> The first issue of
<<Charlie Hebdo>> after the massacre at
its headquarters bore a
cartoon of Mohammed with the comment <<Je suis
Charlie>>
(<<I am Charlie>>) and that <<all is forgiven>>
(<<Tout est
pardonne>>) .
The aftermath of the
<<Charlie Hebdo>> attack also resulted in another
professional
casualty within the ranks of the corporate news media, the
ever-diminishing
ranks that are not beholden to Israeli propaganda and
diktats from the
Israel Lobby.
A Twitter message from CNN's longtime international
correspondent Jim
Clancy about <<Charlie Hebdo>> depicting the
Prophet Mohammed in a
manner that was meant to mock those Muslims who
distort his teachings
resulted in an exchange of tweets between the veteran
newscaster and an
operative of the neo-conservative and pro-Israeli
Foundation for the
Defense of Democracies (FDD). When Clancy suggested that
the operative
was a <<hasbara>> troll, that is, an online
Israeli propagandist, the
CNN reporter became the subject of a character
assassination campaign by
the same Israel Lobby career-destroying buzz saw
that claimed the
careers of CNN's Octavia Nasr and Rick Sanchez and almost
capsized that
of CNN's Middle East correspondent Ben Wedeman. All three
journalists
were attacked for their critical views of Israel's policies. The
same
attack mechanism was used against the doyenne of the White House Press
Corps, Helen Thomas, who was fired by Hearst Newspapers for her views on
illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. She subsequently lost her
senior position in the White House Press Briefing Room.
There is
little doubt that what Messrs. Roussel and Sine have called the
Zionist
editors of <<Charlie Hebdo>> and the tramps, trollops, and
whores of FEMEN and Pussy Riot are working hand-in-glove to attack and
mock two of three Abrahamic tradition religions: Christianity and Islam.
Meanwhile, the third, Judaism, hides its <<anti-Gentilism>>
behind such
facades as <<Charlie Hebdo>> and FEMEN and other
groups while
proclaiming the importance of free speech.
(5) Charlie
Hebdo's ten most offensive cartoons (mainly aimed at Islam &
Christianity)
{visit the link to see the cartoons}
http://listverse.com/2015/01/09/10-incendiary-moments-in-the-history-of-charlie-hebdo/
10
Incendiary Moments In The History Of 'Charlie Hebdo'
Morris M.
January 9, 2015
At 11:30 A.M. on January 7, 2015, France experienced its
worst terror
attack since the 1995 train bombings. Armed gunmen stormed the
offices
of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12
people--including
Muslim policeman Ahmed Merabet. At the time of this
writing, the full
facts are not yet known, but it seems likely that the
killers were
offended by pictures of Muhammad that Charlie Hebdo had
previously
published.
But there's more to Charlie Hebdo than simply
caricaturing Islam's
prophet. Throughout the years, they've targeted just
about everyone.
Featured photo credit: Valentina Cala
10 The Death Of
De Gaulle
Before it became Charlie Hebdo, France's most controversial
magazine was
known as L'Hebdo Hara-Kiri. Hara-Kiri had one mission only: to
be as
"dumb and nasty" as possible (their words). It achieved this
spectacularly in 1970 with the death of Charles de Gaulle at his home in
Colombey.
Eight days before de Gaulle passed away, a devastating fire
had swept
through a nightclub in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont. The death toll was
142
teenagers, and many of the survivors had severe burns covering 90
percent of their bodies. It was a hideous, immeasurable tragedy that
would have defined the year in news had France's elder statesman not
passed away soon after. With his passing, the fire vanished from
headlines . . . until Hara-Kiri hit the newsstands. In English, their
cover read: "Tragic Ball At Colombey: 1 Dead" (original shown
above).
It was like setting a firecracker off underneath the French
establishment. A furious government banned Hara-Kiri from sale, claiming
that the headline was tasteless and offensive. It wasn't the first time
the magazine had angered those in power, and it certainly wouldn't be
the last.
9 Vote Asshole
When Hara-Kiri closed its doors for
the last time, many thought they'd
seen the end of the offensive weekly. No
such luck. Instead of
disbanding, the journalists and cartoonists took
advantage of a loophole
in French law and simply renamed the magazine.
Charlie Hebdo ("Charlie
Weekly") had more or less the exact same staff as
Hara-Kiri, the same
layout, and the same mission--only with the added dig of
a name that now
referenced their biggest controversy.
It wasn't long
before a new controversy took the place of the de Gaulle
fiasco. When the
French municipal elections rolled round in 1971, there
was plenty of
anti-government feeling in the air. The newly relaunched
Charlie Hebdo took
advantage of this with a cover reading "Votez Con"
("Vote Asshole").
Underneath, the paper's cartoonists added the words
"You Don't Have A
Choice." It was a statement that resonated with a lot
of disaffected people.
Even today, French graffiti artists sometimes tag
their works with it. It
may not have matched the de Gaulle controversy,
but it showed that the
magazine wasn't going to give up its "dumb and
nasty" tagline anytime
soon.
8 Reprinting Denmark's Muhammad Cartoons
You probably don't
recognize the name Jyllands-Posten, but you may
remember their most famous
issue. In 2005, the Danish paper ran a series
of Muhammad cartoons,
including one of the prophet with a bomb in his
turban. The reaction was
immediate and visceral. Riots broke out. The
Danish flag was burned. Things
only got crazier when the Charlie Hebdo
team decided to reprint the cartoons
in solidarity.
It wasn't the only magazine to take this route. In Jordan,
a weekly
newspaper also ran the cartoons with the caption "Be Reasonable."
But
for one reason or another, it was Charlie Hebdo that got all the press
attention. The Great Mosque of Paris (which has condemned the recent
attack) and the Union of Islamic Organisations of France sued the
magazine, and the case was brought to court. It was stated that the
cartoons could incite racial violence in France, a charge with some
seriously heavy penalties. It didn't help that, around the time the
trial was going on, 50 Muslim graves were desecrated with pig's blood
and swastikas.
Ultimately, Charlie Hebdo and its team were acquitted
under French
freedom of expression laws. It was the first time that most of
the world
had heard about them, but it wouldn't be the last.
7 The
Anti-Semitic Column
Now might be a good time to remember that Charlie
Hebdo was never just
about goading Muslims. The editors saw themselves as
equal opportunity
offenders, especially where Jews and Catholics were
concerned. One
famous cartoon featured a Jewish Israeli machine-gunning a
Palestinian
while exclaiming, "Take that, Goliath!" But while the intent was
always
satirical, it occasionally led to the magazine being accused of
anti-Semitism. Those accusations weren't always unfounded.
In 2008,
the magazine published a column by industry veteran Sine. In
it, Sine
claimed that then-president Nicolas Sarkozy's son was
converting to Judaism
so he could get more money, something that managed
to be both offensive and
utterly inaccurate. The outcry that followed
only got worse when it was
discovered that Sine had once said, "I'm an
antisemite, and I'm not afraid
to admit it . . . I want every Jew to
live in fear, unless he's
pro-Palestinian. Let them die."
The magazine ultimately fired Sine,
claiming that it had gotten used to
publishing his columns without reading
them. But the controversy never
truly faded.
6 Hiring Muhammad As
Editor
Prior to the shooting, Charlie Hebdo's most infamous moment was in
2011.
To celebrate the victory of an Islamist party in the Tunisian
elections,
the magazine produced its "Sharia" issue--supposedly guest-edited
by
Muhammad. Unsurprisingly, it was incredibly offensive. The cover
featured the prophet with a speech bubble saying, "100 lashes if you
don't die laughing!" But it was what happened in the hours before the
issue hit the newsstands that stuck in most people's minds.
At 1:00
A.M. that morning, the offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed
and burned
to the ground. Equipment, drawings, and personal possessions
all went up in
flames. Simultaneously, hackers defaced the website and
sent terrifying
death messages to the editorial team. Although no one
was killed, the attack
still contained a dark message for French
society: Back down or worse will
come. At the time, many thought it
might be the end of Charlie Hebdo.
Instead, they simply increased their
provocation.
5 Responding To The
Firebomb
Charlie Hebdo's response to the firebombing was designed to push
buttons, and boy did it work. Within a week of the offices being
torched, the magazine was back on the shelves, sporting one of its most
famous covers of all. Set outside the ruined remains of its former
offices, the image (shown above) depicted a male Charlie Hebdo
cartoonist and a Muslim man sharing a passionate kiss. The caption
simply read "Love Is Stronger Than Hate."
Even for a magazine that
routinely published images of Muhammad and
Israelis murdering Palestinians,
this was provocative. The paper
followed it up with a furious press
offensive. Editor Stephane
Charbonnier (better known as "Charb") openly
attacked the "idiot
extremists" responsible, saying that it was his job to
make their lives
as difficult "as they do ours." Not long after, he would
also add his
famous quote, now much more relevant following Wednesday's
attacks:
"I don't feel as though I'm killing someone with a pen. I'm not
putting
lives at risk. When activists need a pretext to justify their
violence,
they always find it."
4 The Catholic Covers
Along
with Judaism and Islam, Charlie Hebdo had a strong dislike of
Catholicism.
Perhaps that's putting it too mildly. By all accounts, the
editors had it in
for the Pope almost as much as they had it in for
Muhammad. At the height of
the Church abuse scandal, they ran a cover
depicting Pope Benedict XVI as a
green-skinned corpse advising his
bishops on how to get away with
pedophilia. The summer after Pope
Francis took over Benedict's old job, a
cover cartoon showed him dressed
up as a flabby drag queen at Rio's Mardi
Gras. Another showed a group of
bishops sodomizing one another.
Stuff
like this is important because it shows how Charlie Hebdo touched
a nerve
with every single group on Earth. As we've been writing this,
the Catholic
League has released a statement saying that Charb
"provoked" the massacre
and his own death with his "disgusting" cartoons
of religious figures.
Although the group has condemned the killings,
they've also added a
depressing disclaimer:
"Had [Charbonnier] not been so narcissistic, he
may [sic] still be alive."
3 The Gay Marriage Issue
Even at their
most offensive, Charlie Hebdo never just published
cartoons for the sake of
upsetting people. The magazine came from a
strongly left-wing, feminist, and
staunchly liberal background. One of
its strongest principles was equal
rights. So when France's right-wing
Catholics organized huge protests
against the legalization of gay
marriage, the magazine responded in
kind.
Published in November 2012, the cover of their "Mariage Homo" issue
featured Jesus and God sodomizing one another while the Holy Spirit, to
coin a euphemism, brought up the rear. It also made reference to
outspoken gay marriage opponent Cardinal Vingt-Trois by including a
caption that read "Cardinal Vingt-Trois has three fathers."
The
reaction in France was nothing short of apocalyptic. Catholics and
Christians of all stripes got up in arms, and gay marriage opponents
were deeply offended. Although gay marriage was ultimately legalized,
the cover still caused a lasting controversy.
2 The 'Intouchables
2'
In 2012, one of France's top box-office hits was a film called
Intouchables. The story of a poor black man who becomes caretaker to a
paralyzed rich white man, it was an utter schmaltz fest with less
subtlety than a sledgehammer. However, it did inspire one of Charlie
Hebdo's more controversial covers. Featuring a Jewish caricature pushing
a Muslim in a wheelchair and the caption "You Shouldn't Make Fun Of Us,"
the cartoon was designed to cause a reaction.
The inside of the issue
was even more provocative. Riffing on the recent
release of Innocence of
Muslims, it featured a filmmaker shooting scenes
of a naked Muhammad in
pornographic poses. The paper claimed that these
scenes were sure to "set
the Muslim world ablaze." And they did.
The day before the issue hit the
shelves, France was forced to close 20
foreign outposts amid concerns that
French nationals might be assaulted.
Half the world condemned the cartoons.
The Parisian press duked it out
over Charlie Hebdo's irresponsibility and
right to free speech, and the
magazine was given a permanent police guard.
Sadly, it wouldn't be
enough to stop what happened next.
1 The Last
Tweet
It's fitting that Charlie Hebdo's last tweet before the attack
would be
provocative. But this one was more than simply challenging--it was
a
genuine puzzle, a mystery that, at the time of this writing, still
hasn't been solved.
It featured a relatively lifelike picture of
Islamic State leader Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, drawn by one of the cartoonists
who died in the
attack, along with the caption "Best wishes. To you too,
Al-Baghdadi."
Al-Baghdadi is depicted replying, "And especially good
health!" Aside
from having no obvious meaning, the tweet is also notable for
its
timing. It seems to have appeared seconds before the attack took place,
with some suggesting that it may have been sent once the gunmen had
already opened fire. The BBC has even entertained the possibility that
the account was hacked, perhaps to send a message.
Whatever the truth
turns out to be, it won't be Charlie Hebdo's last
incendiary moment. Already
the magazine is planning a defiant print run
of one million copies next
week, while papers and websites across the
globe are reprinting the images
they were killed for drawing. Nine of
its journalists may well be dead, but
its work--offensive as it
sometimes is--will carry on. Because right now,
whether we agree with
them or not, we are all Charlie.
(6) Charlie
Hebdo opposed "anti-Semitism" and "excessive criticism of
Israel"
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/1/9/charlie-hebdo-not-exactly-a-model-of-freedom-of-speech
Charlie
Hebdo: Not Exactly A Model Of Freedom Of Speech
January 09, 2015 / Gilad
Atzmon
Diana Johnstone wrote the following yesterday concluding her
extended
report from Paris:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/07/what-to-say-when-you-have-nothing-to-say/
Charlie
Hebdo was not in reality a model of freedom of speech. It has
ended up,
like so much of the “human rights left”, defending U.S.-led
wars against
“dictators”.
In 2002, Philippe Val, who was editor in chief at the time,
denounced
Noam Chomsky for anti-Americanism and excessive criticism of
Israel and
of mainstream media. In 2008, another of Charlie Hebdo’s famous
cartoonists, Siné, wrote a short note citing a news item that President
Sarkozy’s son Jean was going to convert to Judaism to marry the heiress
of a prosperous appliance chain. Siné added the comment, “He’ll go far,
this lad.” For that, Siné was fired by Philippe Val on grounds of
“anti-Semitism”. Siné promptly founded a rival paper which stole a
number of Charlie Hebdo readers, revolted by CH’s double
standards.
In short, Charlie Hebdo was an extreme example of what is
wrong with the
“politically correct” line of the current French left. The
irony is
that the murderous attack by the apparently Islamist killers has
suddenly sanctified this fading expression of extended adolescent
revolt, which was losing its popular appeal, into the eternal banner of
a Free Press and Liberty of Expression. Whatever the murderers
intended, this is what they have achieved. Along with taking innocent
lives, they have surely deepened the sense of brutal chaos in this
world, aggravated distrust between ethnic groups in France and in
Europe, and no doubt accomplished other evil results as well. In this
age of suspicion, conspiracy theories are certain to proliferate.
(7)
French government forced Twitter to give them the data on
anti-Semitic
posts
http://anarchistnotebook.com/2015/01/11/charlie-hedbo-and-the-freedom-of-speech-double-standards/
The
Anarchist Notebook | Libertarian Anarchy
Charlie Hedbo and the Freedom of
Speech Double Standards
Posted on January 11, 2015
by The
Libertarian Anarchist
The attack on a French satirical magazine this week
shows the political
double standards in place when it comes to freedom of
speech.
People worldwide have expressed outrage at terrorists killing the
magazine staff for mocking their religion – a religion, that is, which
worships a god other than the state. How many of these same people would
have any qualms with a state law enforcement officer using violence
against a citizen whose speech or publication violated a “hate”
law?
We’re supposed to think of Charlie Hebdo now as a symbol of freedom
of
speech. Yet this same magazine fired one of its writers over a joke
criticizing their then-president Sarkozy, who later faced legal
prosecution for it.
France also happens to have hate speech laws on
the books worthy of the
Soviets.
The penal code forbids any
private insult toward a person or group
for belonging or not belonging, in
fact or in fancy, to an ethnicity, a
nation, a race, a religion, a sex, or a
sexual orientation, or for
having a handicap (Article R. 624-4). The penal
code forbids any private
incitement to discrimination or to hatred or
violence against a person
or group for belonging or not belonging, in fact
or in fancy, to an
ethnicity, a nation, a race, a religion, a sex, or a
sexual orientation,
or for having a handicap (Article R. 625-7)
The
French government has forced Twitter to give them the data on
anti-Semitic
posts and fined people €5,000 for the “offense” of
contesting information
about the Holocaust.
The French government, like any other government,
doesn’t regard
violence against people who speak their mind as morally
wrong. Only
they, however, think they have a legitimate claim to this
violence. Had
this attack on the magazine come in the form of a police raid
for
violating some hate speech law, we would not be hearing the same cries
of martyrdom on the altar of free speech.
The thing about freedom of
speech is you allow all speech, not just
speech pre-approved by the state.
Laws against certain kinds of speech,
i.e. campus speech codes, hate speech
laws, rest upon the barrel of a
gun, which makes them no different than
terrorists killing people for
criticizing their beliefs.
(8)
Dieudonne banned from performing - because anti-Semitic
From: "frank
scott fpscott@gmail.com [shamireaders]"
<shamireaders@yahoogroups.com>
Date:
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:39:05 -0800
Subject: [shamireaders] Fwd: France wins
battle to ban 'anti-Semitic'
comedian - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10562264/France-wins-battle-to-ban-anti-Semitic-comedian.html
France
wins battle to ban 'anti-Semitic' comedian
French comic who is considered
anti-Semitic was banned from performing
just hours after a court in Nantes
said he could go ahead with his show
By Hannah Flint
8:31PM GMT 09
Jan 2014
A top court in France has upheld the ban on a performance by the
controversial comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, a move the government has
hailed as a “victory” over anti-Semitism.
The decision comes less
than two hours before the comedian was due to
give the opening performance
of his national tour in the western city of
Nantes, despite his lawyers
claiming a breach of his freedom of expression.
The ban had been lifted
only yesterday by local judge Jean-Francois
Molla who said that a perceived
risk to public order could not be used
to “justify as radical measure as
banning the show”. However, France’s
highest administrative court, the
Council of State, ruled that the show
should be allowed to go
ahead.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who has led the campaign to ban
the
comedian’s performances, said: "We cannot tolerate hatred of others,
racism, anti-Semitism or holocaust denial. That is not France. This is a
victory for the Republic.”
The decision marks a landmark break with
legal precedent in France,
where previous attempts to ban Dieudonne from
performing foundered
against constitutional provisions on free
speech.
The government has accused the comedian of insulting the memory
of
Holocaust victims, and his show has widely been condemned as
anti-Semitic. He currently faces seven convictions for anti-Semitic hate
speech as well as an investigation that he owes tax authorities more
than 800,000 euros.
News of the decision was booed by Dieudonne’s
fans who had assembled
outside the venue where he was due to perform. Police
vans are already
camped out in Nantes after expectations that both
supporters and
opponents of the comedian will demonstrate this
evening.
The 47-year-old comedian was due to give 22 shows as part of a
national
tour across France. The first was to be performed to 63,000 people
at 43
euros a ticket. A government circular had recommended that local
governments suspend Dieudonne’s show if they believed it could lead to
criminal offences.
Bordeaux and Brittany followed suit in addition to
Nantes. The ruling
today leaves the rest of his tour
uncertain.
However, many remain divided over whether the performances
should be
banned altogether. The League of Human Rights said a ban would
“rally
support for Dieudonne for those who consider themselves
oppressed”.
(
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30850879
#FreeSpeechStories:
France accused of 'double standards'
Tens of thousands of fans of the
French comic Dieudonne - often
criticised as anti-Semitic - are making
claims of hypocrisy and double
standards after French authorities opened up
dozens of cases against
people accused of justifying terrorism.
Fans
of the controversial comedian reacted angrily after he was arrested
and
charged with condoning terrorism for a remark on his a Facebook
page: "je me
sens Charlie Coulibaly" ("I feel like Charlie Coulibaly").
The remark,
which has since been taken down, was a mash-up of the
#JeSuisCharlie tag and
the name of Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed a
policewoman near a Jewish
school and four people at a Jewish supermarket
in Paris. Dieudonne later
defended the remark by saying he felt like he
was being persecuted by
authorities as if he were a terror suspect.
"Freedom of expression is
dead, but its funeral on Sunday was pretty!!"
said one of the comedian's
Facebook fans, referring to the enormous
march through Paris in support of
Charlie Hebdo.
"WHAT HYPOCRISY!!!!!" shouted another commentator. "You
can legally
caricature and insult the prophet and the Muslim world: the
oligarchy
calls this freedom of expression ... We are in a pseudo-democratic
dictatorship."
Dieudonne is a comedian with a history of making crude
jokes about the
Holocaust (and occasionally getting into legal trouble). He
has a huge
following on social media including more than 900,000 Facebook
fans.
Most of the comments on his page were in support of the comedian, and
his name was trending briefly on Twitter earlier in the week, but there
were a few fans who thought Dieudonne had crossed a line.
"There is a
big difference between freedom of expression and incitement
to hatred," said
one fan. "He knew what to expect ... Charlie Hebdo made
caricatures of the
prophet that I haven't agreed with, it has made a
mockery of the prophet,
made some laugh, shocked others, but there was
no incentive to hatred and
this is a big difference."
The comedian adapted the "Je Suis Charlie"
trend to rally supporters
after his arrest.
The arrest of Dieudonne
was just one of dozens of cases - up to 100
according to one estimate -
opened by the French authorities since the
attacks. Some people have even
been jailed already under fast-track
legislation that was passed last year.
[...]
Blog by Mike Wendling
Translation by Estelle
Doyle
(10) BBC reporter forced to apologize for saying "Palestinians
suffer
hugely at Jewish hands as well" at Paris rally
(11) Simon Schama
comes out as a Zionist
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:40:46 +0300
Subject:
MCS BLAST! BBC reporter has been forced to apologize
From: Debbie Menon
<debbiemenon@gmail.com>
A BBC
reporter has been forced to apologize after he told the daughter
of a
Holocaust survivor "Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as
well"
during a live broadcast from the Paris rally.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/551612/Tim-Willcox-apologises-BBC-Paris-march-Palestinian-Jewish
BBC
reporter apologises for telling Paris mourner: 'Palestinians suffer
at
Jewish hands'
A BBC reporter has been forced to apologise after he told
the daughter
of a Holocaust survivor "Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish
hands as
well" during a live broadcast from the Paris
rally.
Published: 16:26, Mon, January 12, 2015
By Rebecca
Perring
Tim Willcox said sorry for his "poorly phrased" question during
live
coverage of Sunday's 3.6 million strong unity march in memory of 17
people killed during terror attacks in the French capital last
week.
Twelve people were murdered after two gunmen stormed the offices of
Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on Wednesday. A police officer was
gunned down on Thursday while four Jewish people were killed during an
armed siege at a Kosher supermarket on Friday.
During a live report
from the streets of Paris, Mr Willcox spoke to a
woman who expressed her
fears that Jewish people were being persecuted
in the modern day.
She
added: "The situation is going back to the days of the 1930s in
Europe."
To this, Mr Willcox replied: "Many critics though of Israel's
policy
would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as
well."
The woman responded by shaking her head and saying: "We can't do
an
amalgam."
But Mr Willcox told her: "You understand everything is
seen from
different perspectives."
The woman has since been
identified as Chava, an Israeli national who is
the daughter of Polish
Holocaust survivors, according to the Mail Online.
The reporter's remarks
were widely criticised by viewers, with some
calling for his
resignation.
Historian Simon Schama accused Mr Willcox of "appalling
hectoring"
before tweeting: "Then he had gall to patronise her at the end -
'you
see people see it from all sides' That Palestinian plight justifies
anti-semitic murder?"
(11) Simon Schama comes out as a
Zionist
{this is a part of the previous item, but it deserved a separate
headline - Peter M.}
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/551612/Tim-Willcox-apologises-BBC-Paris-march-Palestinian-Jewish
BBC
reporter apologises for telling Paris mourner: 'Palestinians suffer
at
Jewish hands'
[...] Historian Simon Schama accused Mr Willcox of
"appalling hectoring"
before tweeting: "Then he had gall to patronise her at
the end - 'you
see people see it from all sides' That Palestinian plight
justifies
anti-semitic murder?"
(12) Did Mossad Do Charlie Hebdo, to
further Clash of Civilizations? -
Brother Nathanael
Brother
Nathanael<bn@realjewnews.com> 13
January 2015 at 13:55
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=996
Did
Mossad Do Charlie Hebdo?
By Brother Nathanael Kapner
January 12,
2015 @ 8:24 pm
Dead men don’t tell tales.
The suspects are dead
but the Jewish ‘War On Terror’ is alive and well.
[Clip: “Today I marched
through the streets of Paris, in one line with
leaders from around the
world, in order to say that terror must end.”]
That’s code for
“Palestinians” or whoever looks like one.
The Charlie Hebdo attack was a
lesson in Israeli pay-back due to France
voting for a Palestinian State at
the UN two weeks ago.
There was nothing “jihadist” about the attack at
all.
An unarmed cop was shot who never offended Muhammad; the offensive
magazine covers inside Charlie Hebdo’s office were left untouched; and
the ‘terrorists’ fled without finishing the job.
A getaway car was
waiting for them at a Kosher Restaurant while one of
the suspects’ ID was
left in the abandoned car.
Now, what jihadist brings his ID with him on a
‘terror’ operation?
That’s Classic Mossad whose access to intelligence
files on former
criminals via its moles within the system is well
known.
Some may say Mossad was not involved, yet Jews will still use this
attack to push their agenda.
But Hezbollah, you know, recently
uncovered a Mossad mole operating in
its uppermost ranks.
Whose
payroll were the Paris suspects on? That’s the question.
Cui bono? Jews.
It’s 9-11 all over again. The enemies of Jewry—whoever
looks like a
Palestinian—are again everyone’s enemies.
Now all the Jews have descended
on Paree: Bibzy, Levy,
Cuckermain…bringing their ‘clash of civilizations’
with them where civil
strife brings on a Jewish police state with ‘expert
help’ from the
Mossad flown in.
Ain’t that a shame. The very same
ones who created the crisis are sent
in to solve it.
Did Mossad do
Charlie Hebdo? Sure looks like it to me.
(13) Marine Le Pen: stop the
free movement of peoples and goods;
reinstate border checks
Date:
Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:29:06 +0900
Subject: Marine Le Pen: France Was Attacked
by Islamic Fundamentalism -
NYTimes.com
From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com>
To
Call This Threat by Its Name By MARINE LE PEN JAN. 18, 2015
Marine Le
Pen: France Was Attacked by Islamic Fundamentalism
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/opinion/marine-le-pen-france-was-attacked-by-islamic-fundamentalism.html
The
Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
To Call This Threat by Its
Name
Marine Le Pen: France Was Attacked by Islamic
Fundamentalism
By MARINE LE PENJAN. 18, 2015
PARIS — “To misname
things is to add to the world’s unhappiness.”
Whether or not Albert Camus
really did utter these words, they are an
astonishingly apt description of
the situation in which the French
government now finds itself. Indeed, the
French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius no longer even dares pronounce the
real name of things.
Mr. Fabius will not describe as “Islamists” the
terrorists who on
Wednesday, Jan. 7, walked into the offices of the
newspaper Charlie
Hebdo, right in the heart of Paris. Nor will he use
“Islamic State” to
describe the radical Sunni group that now controls
territory in Syria
and Iraq. No reference can be made to “Islamic
fundamentalism,” for fear
that Islam and Islamism might get conflated. The
terms “Daesh” and
“Daesh cutthroats” are to be favored instead, even though
in Arabic
“Daesh” means the very thing to be hidden: “Islamic
State.”
Let us call things by their rightful names, since the French
government
seems reluctant to do so. France, land of human rights and
freedoms, was
attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic
fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the
enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues. Muslims
themselves need to hear this message. They need the distinction between
Islamist terrorism and their faith to be made clearly.
Yet this
distinction can only be made if one is willing to identify the
threat. It
does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and
leave things
unspoken. Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and
Muslims themselves
must fight it at our side.
Once things are called what they are, the real
work begins. Nothing has
been done yet. Whether from the right or the left,
one French
administration after another has failed to size up the problem or
the
task to be accomplished. Everything must be reviewed, from the
intelligence services to the police force, from the prison system to the
surveillance of jihadist networks. Not that the French security services
have let us down: They proved their courage and determination again
during the Jan. 9 hostage crisis in a kosher grocery near the Porte de
Vincennes in Paris. However their actions have been hobbled by a series
of mistakes committed by the powers that be.
These mistakes must also
be called by their names. I will mention only
three, but they are of crucial
importance.
First, the dogma of the free movement of peoples and goods is
so firmly
entrenched among the leaders of the European Union that the very
idea of
border checks is deemed to be heretical. And yet, every year tons of
weapons from the Balkans enter French territory unhindered and hundreds
of jihadists move freely around Europe. Small surprise then that Amedy
Coulibaly’s machine gun came through Belgium, as the Walloon media have
reported, or that his partner Hayat Boumeddiene fled to Syria under the
nose of law enforcement.
Second, the massive waves of immigration,
both legal and clandestine,
our country has experienced for decades have
prevented the
implementation of a proper assimilation policy. As Hugues
Lagrange, a
sociologist at the French National Center for Scientific
Research
(C.N.R.S.), has argued, culture has a major influence on the way
immigrants relate to French society and its values, on issues such as
the status of women and the separation of state and religious
authority.
Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes
difficult, if not
impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of
ways of life at
odds with laïcité, France’s distinctive form of secularism,
and other
laws and values of the French Republic. An additional burden is
mass
unemployment, which is itself exacerbated by immigration.
Third,
French foreign policy has wandered between Scylla and Charybdis
in the last
few years. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s intervention
in Libya,
President François Hollande’s support for some Syrian
fundamentalists,
alliances formed with rentier states that finance
jihadist fighters, like
Qatar and Saudi Arabia — all are mistakes that
have plunged France into
serious geopolitical incoherence from which it
is struggling to extricate
itself. Incidentally, Gerd Müller, Germany’s
federal minister of economic
cooperation and development, deserves
praise for having the
clear-sightedness, like the Front National, of
accusing Qatar of supporting
jihadists in Iraq.
These mistakes are not inevitable. But to rectify
them, we must act
quickly. The Union Pour Un Mouvement Populaire and the
Parti Socialiste
have called for a committee to investigate the recent
terrorist attacks.
That will hardly solve matters. “If you want to bury a
problem, set up a
committee,” the French statesman Georges Clémenceau once
said.
For now, one emergency measure can readily be put into action:
Stripping
jihadists of their French citizenship is an absolute necessity. In
the
longer run, most important, national border checks must be reinstated,
and there should be zero tolerance for any behavior that undermines
laïcité and French law. Without such measures, no serious policy for
combating fundamentalism is possible.
France has just gone through 12
days it will never forget. After pausing
to grieve its dead, it then rose up
to defend its rights. Now the French
people, as if a single person, must put
pressure on their leaders so
that these days in January will not have been
in vain. From France’s
tragedy must spring hope for real change. The petty
logic of political
parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people’s
legitimate
aspirations to safety and liberty.
We, the French, are
viscerally attached to our laïcité, our sovereignty,
our independence, our
values. The world knows that when France is
attacked it is liberty that is
dealt a blow. I began by saying that we
must call things by their names. I
will end by saying that some names
speak for themselves. The name of our
country, France, still rings out
like a call to freedom.
Marine Le
Pen is president of the National Front party in France. This
essay was
translated by Edward Gauvin from the French.
A version of this op-ed
appears in print on January 19, 2015, in The
International New York
Times.
(14) Geert Wilders a connection between Marine Le Pen and
Israel
john<john@vipnamelist.eu> 8 January 2015 at
17:51
Hello Peter
Something to know about Marine Le Pen and
Israel
I strongly beleive that the go between Israel en Marine Le Pen is the
dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Wilders has very strong ties with Israel
,and lived there for 2 years,
and since then has visited Israel for 40
times.
He is an ultra right anti islam politician.
He has bonded his party
with Marine Le Pen party in the European Parliament
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/13/wilders-en-le-pen-spreken-van-een-historische-dag/
Wilders
and Israel
Wilders lived in Israel for two years during his youth and has
visited
the country 40 times in the last 25 years.[107]
Wilders
stated about Israel: "I have visited many interesting countries
in the
Middle East – from Syria to Egypt, from Tunisia to Turkey, from
Cyprus to
Iran – but nowhere did I have the special feeling of
solidarity that I
always get when I land at Ben Gurion International
Airport."[27] Dutch
public TV channel Nederland 2's daily news programme
Netwerk reported that
numerous American supporters of Israel financially
supported Wilders' Party
for Freedom (PVV) and openly approved of his
message towards Islam and
Islamic terrorism.[108] Wilders told an
audience during the report that "We
[in the West] are all Israel".[108]
He has also said "Israel is the West's
first line of defence" against
what he perceives to be a threat posed by
Islam.[109]
Following the Dutch general election, 2010, in which the PVV
was the
third biggest party, Wilders said Jordan should be renamed
Palestine.[110] The Jordanian government responded saying Wilders'
speech was reminiscent of the Israeli right wing. His speech said
"Jordan is Palestine. Changing its name to Palestine will end the
conflict in the Middle East and provide the Palestinians with an
alternate homeland." He also said Israel deserves a special status in
the Dutch government because it was fighting for "Jerusalem" in its
name.
"If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome
will
be next. Thus, Jerusalem is the main front protecting the West. It is
not a conflict over territory but rather an ideological battle, between
the mentality of the liberated West and the ideology of Islamic
barbarism. There has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946,
and it is the kingdom of Jordan."
He called on the Dutch government
to refer to Jordan as Palestine and
move its embassy to
Jerusalem.[111]
( abstract from the Enlish page about wilders in
wikipedia )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders
Kind
regards
John van Ladesteijn
Netherlands
(15) Le Pen and Wilders
plan to 'wreck' EU from within
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/le-pen-wilders-alliance-plan-wreck-eu
Le
Pen and Wilders forge plan to 'wreck' EU from within
Front National and
Freedom party aim to exploit euroscepticism at
European elections to block
policymaking within parliament
Geert Wilders (right) and Marine Le Pen
unveil plans to work together
ahead of European parliamentary elections in
May Photograph: Martijn
Beekman/EPA
Ian Traynor in
Brussels
Thursday 14 November 2013 06.09 AEST
Two of Europe's
leading far-right populists struck a pact on Wednesdayto
build a continental
alliance to wreck the European parliament from
within, and slay "the monster
in Brussels".
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's rightwing nationalist
Front
National, and Geert Wilders, the Dutch maverick anti-Islam campaigner,
announced they were joining forces ahead of European parliament
elections next year to seek to exploit the euroscepticism soaring across
the EU after four years of austerity, and the financial and debt
crisis.
Le Pen, who has predicted that the EU will collapse as did the
Soviet
Union, said the aim was to bypass Brussels and restore freedom to the
nations and people of Europe.
The rise of populists on the right and
the left, from Sweden to Greece,
has worried the mainstream EU elites and is
already shaping policy ahead
of the May elections. At the top level of EU
institutions in Brussels,
there is talk of "populists, xenophobes,
extremists, fascists" gaining
around 30% of seats in the next parliament and
using that platform to
try to paralyse EU policy-making.
"This is a
historical day. Today is the beginning of the liberation from
the European
elite, the monster in Brussels," declared Wilders after
meeting Le Pen in
the Dutch parliament in The Hague. "We want to decide
how we control our
borders, our money, our economy, our currency."
The aim of the electoral
alliance appears to be to form a Trojan horse
in Brussels and Strasbourg: a
large parliamentary caucus dedicated to
wrecking the very institution that
the far-right has entered. To qualify
for caucus status, the new group needs
at least 25 MEPs from seven
countries, which they will get easily on current
poll projections,
although it is not clear if they can yet muster seven
national parties.
"We want to give freedom back to our people," said Le
Pen. "Our old
European nations are forced to ask the authorisation of
Brussels in all
circumstances, forced to submit their budget to the
headmistress."
Both politicians are currently riding high in the polls in
their own
countries. A poll last month in France put the Front National at
24%
ahead of the governing Socialists and the mainstream conservatives.
Wilders' Freedom party, while suffering setbacks in elections last year,
is currently leading in Dutch opinion polls.
Eurosceptic parties or
those actively committed to wrecking the EU and
to ditching the single
currency are also expected to do well in Greece,
Austria, Sweden, Denmark,
Poland and elsewhere in eastern Europe, while
Nigel Farage's UK Independence
party is being tipped as a possible
winner of European elections in
Britain.
"As a result of the economic fallout from the eurozone debt
crisis,
populist parties on both right and left have seen and will likely
realise a significant surge in their popularity," said analysts at the
Eurasia Group. "The crisis has provided populist and nationalist parties
with an excellent opportunity to clean up and modernise their rhetoric.
Political parties hitherto thought of as 'nasty' or 'racist' can no
longer be considered so."
The pact sealed in The Hague is a big boost
for Le Pen who is
successfully developing a more moderate image distanced
from the overt
antisemitism of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and for her
campaign to
form a broader "European Alliance for Freedom" on the
nationalist right.
The effort to pool policies and campaigns has
foundered in the past
because the various nationalists invariably find
enemies in other
nations and because far-right parties tend to be dominated
by leaders
enjoying a cult of personality.
The aim of the
Franco-Dutch alliance is to bring in Sweden's Democrats,
also rising in the
polls, the anti-immigration Danish People's party,
Austria's Freedom party
of Heinz-Christian Strache, which took more than
20% in recent national
elections, and the rightwing Flemish separatists
of Vlaams Belang.
By
forming a new caucus in the European parliament, the group would gain
access
to funding, committee seats and chairs, and much more prominent
chamber
speaking rights. Farage, leading a caucus of 33 MEPs, has
exploited the
opportunity deftly to raise his European and national profile.
Wilders
said they wanted UKIP to join, but Farage has said he will not
collaborate
with Le Pen because of the Front National's reputation for
antisemitism.
There are also several major policy differences that
Wilders and Le Pen
appeared to be burying on Wednesday which are likely to
resurface.
Coming from the Dutch libertarian tradition, Wilders is strongly
pro-Israel, pro-gay, pro-women's rights. The Front National is seen as
homophobic, anti-gay marriage, and no friend of Israel.
The two big
policy areas they have in common are anti-immigration and
anti-EU.
They have ruled out collaborating with more overtly
fascistic parties
such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in
Hungary.
The attempt at a concerted campaign comes as support for the EU
is
haemmorhaging across Europe.
Gallup Europe, following polling in
September, found that only 30%
viewed the EU positively compared to 70% 20
years ago, and concluded
that "the European project has never in its history
been as unpopular".
Even in traditionally pro-EU countries, such as
Germany, support is
atrophying. It remained high among older people but the
25-50 age group
was split 50-50 between EU supporters and opponents. Across
the EU,
eurosceptics outnumbered EU-supporters by 43-40%.
A new study
by Mark Leonard and Jose Ignacio Torreblanca for the
European Council on
Foreign Relations identified five "cleavages feeding
centrifugal tendencies
in the EU".
The European elections "will be held against a background of
economic
crisis and loss of confidence in Europe as a political project,"
the
authors found, pointing to the possibility of a "Tea party-like
scenario" in which eurosceptic parties capture a large quota of the
seats, turn the institution into a "self-hating parliament" which is
then "effectively prevented from acting".
(16) Topless feminist
activist grabs baby Jesus statue in St Peter's Square
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-26/feminist-activist-grabs-baby-jesus-statue-in-st-peters-square/5988572
Fri
26 Dec 2014, 9:32am
Feminist protest group FEMEN have staged a
demonstration in St Peter's
Square after the Pope's Christmas address,
grabbing a statue of a
newly-born Jesus from the square's nativity
scene.
Leader of the FEMEN movement, Inna Shevchenko, grabbed the statue
with
the words "God Is Woman" daubed in large letters on her
chest.
Ms Shevchenko was immediately detained by a Vatican guard who
covered
her with his cape before she was escorted to a local police
station.
The guard also wrestled the Jesus figurine away from
her.
Although the incident occurred well after Pope Francis delivered his
Christmas message from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, thousands of
pilgrims were still in the famous square.
FEMEN has staged similar
stunts at the Vatican, including a protest last
month over an imminent visit
by the pope to the European Parliament.
The three FEMEN members were
wearing only leather mini-skirts and flower
garlands in their
hair.
One had the slogan "Pope is not a politician" emblazoned across her
chest.
On November 24, the day before the pope's visit, a topless FEMEN
activist mounted the altar of the Strasbourg cathedral.
The movement
that began in Ukraine to protest the former pro-Kremlin
regime also opposes
the Catholic Church's positions against abortion and
gay marriage, often
staging protests in places of worship.
AFP
(17) Putin & Obama
take sides in the Culture War
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-year-the-culture-wars-went-global/16398
The
year the Culture Wars went global
Frank Furedi
Turning geopolitics
into a battlefield over values is a really bad idea.
23 December
2014
A century after the outbreak of the First World War, it seems
humanity
is confronted with new cultural disputes that have the potential to
mutate into violent conflicts.
The experience of the past century has
demonstrated that the
politicisation of culture always ends badly. And
little wonder: cultural
crusaders create a climate of intolerance towards
the norms and values
of their cultural targets. They are often censorious
and seek to devalue
their opponents. In its more extreme forms, cultural
politics leads to
the mutual dehumanisation of the antagonists.
Such
dehumanising sentiments were far too evident a century ago. The
Armenian
genocide of 1915 represented the most extreme and destructive
manifestation
of this lethal synthesis of culture and militarism.
Tragically, almost a
century later, the spectre of culturally motivated
violence haunts that
region once more. Until recently, the great
Armenian church in Deir el-Zour
in Syria served as a memorial to the
mass killings that occurred during the
Great War. Earlier this year,
however, in a savage act of vandalism, a group
of Islamists blew the
church up. They destroyed its archives, and the bones
of hundreds of
victims of the 1915 massacre were left strewn in the
streets.
Today, the most extreme exponents of the politicisation of
culture are
the jihadist zealots who regard the lives of those who do not
share
their faith as unworthy of moral value. But the depravity and
barbarism
of a movement such as the Islamic State can obscure the disturbing
reality: namely, that the politicisation of culture, and its intolerant
consequences, is gaining strength across the world. It has certainly
contributed to the hardening of the rivalry between the West and Russia.
And it is this, the emergence of a caricature of the Cold War, that is
arguably the most significant international development of 2014.
It
seems that disputes about lifestyle, family life, sexual orientation
and the
nature of community life are no longer confined to the domestic
sphere. The
Culture Wars have gone global. Muslim jihadists are not just
fighting with
bombs; they are directly assaulting Western liberal values
and denouncing
them as immoral. For his part, Russian president Vladimir
Putin has sought
to present himself as fighting for traditionalism and
the Christian way of
life. In turn, Western diplomats have criticised
Russia for its patriarchal
and sexist culture.
There is little doubt that the Russian government is
a willing
participant in what it regards as a war over moral values and
beliefs.
In September 2012, Putin stated that 'cultural self-awareness,
spiritual
and moral values [and] codes of values are an area of intense
competition'. He said that to 'influence the worldviews of entire ethnic
groups, the desire to subject them to one's will, to force one's system
of values and beliefs upon them, is an absolute reality, just like the
fight for mineral resources that many nations, ours included,
experience'.
In recent years, the Putin regime has claimed that the
Russian way of
life and its values have been the target of hostile foreign
interests.
The Russian government has expressed concern about the influence
of the
Western media over its national life. It regards Western NGOs
operating
in Russia as agents of alien interests, which is why in June 2012
it
passed a law that requires any Russian NGO funded from abroad to
register itself as a 'foreign agent'.
Putin self-consciously
cultivates the image of Russia as a moral
crusader fighting for the survival
of human civilisation. Last December,
in his annual state-of-the-nation
speech, he responded to Western
criticisms of Russia's attitude to
homosexuality by lamenting the
decline of morality in the West. He drew
attention to what he perceived
as the morally disorienting consequences of
Western social engineering:
'This destruction of traditional values from
above not only entails
negative consequences for society, but is also
inherently
anti-democratic because it is based on an abstract notion and
runs
counter to the will of the majority of people.' He claimed that
traditional family values were the only effective defence against
'genderless and infertile... so-called tolerance'.
Although
ostensibly directed at the Russian public, Putin's denunciation
of the
'genderless and infertile' lifestyles of Westerners was also
directed at a
global audience. Just a few days before the delivery of
this speech, an
influential Kremlin-linked think-tank published a report
titled Putin: World
Conservatism's New Leader. The report sought to
present Putin as the global
saviour of traditional values. The report
claimed that ordinary people
throughout the world yearn for the
stability and security offered by
traditional values. It argued that
people believe in the traditional family
and regard multiculturalism
with suspicion. Dmitry Abzalov, a spokesman for
the think-tank, told the
press that 'it is important for most people to
preserve their way of
life, their lifestyle, their traditions', and, because
of that, they
'tend toward conservatism'.
Western commentators
frequently claim that Russia is waging a cultural
conflict against tolerant,
liberal and democratic values. It is
certainly the case that of all the
protagonists, Russia is the most
self-conscious exponent of a values-based
public narrative. But Moscow's
use of a moralistic discourse of tradition
and Russian nationalism
should be seen as a variant of the values-driven
ideology of Western
governments themselves.
Western institutions and
governments are hardly shy when it comes to
demanding that their values and
lifestyles be adhered to by all
societies. In fact, societies and cultures
that do not adhere to Western
values face pressure to fall into line. Take
the case of Japan. During
the summer, the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Racial
Discrimination exhorted the Japanese government to
pass an
American-style law that would criminalise certain forms of speech as
hate speech. What is remarkable about this intervention is that it was
not confined to calling on the Japanese to deal with racial
discrimination; it actually prescribed an Anglo-American legal
innovation for the policing of free speech in Japan. It is entirely
legitimate to criticise a nation's government for failing to deal with
racial discrimination. However, the demand that a sovereign nation
regulate public speech in accordance with the values and methods of
Western societies is a form of cultural colonialism.
The problem with
international cultural crusades is not the actual
values - many of the
sentiments promoted by Western institutions are
worthy and enlightened ones.
No, the problem is that such crusades
assume that Western states possess the
moral authority to question,
undermine and change the laws and values of
communities throughout the
world. When diplomacy and geopolitics become
entwined with the attempt
to affirm the moral superiority of a way of life,
the outcome is always
unpredictable.
The real danger with the
globalisation of the Culture Wars is that it
threatens to confuse diplomatic
problems with existential questions that
touch on a people's way of life.
Take the case of US president Barack
Obama's high-profile address to
European youth. In this speech, he
linked his criticism of Russia's
behaviour in the Crimea with criticism
of those who oppose his political
agenda in the US. He celebrated the
politics of identity and permissiveness,
and denounced the 'older, more
traditional view of power'. He added that
'instead of targeting our gay
and lesbian brothers and sisters, we can use
our laws to protect their
rights'. In all but name, Russia served as a proxy
for Obama's desire to
attack his traditionalist foes back in the
US.
When domestic cultural conflicts in the US are recast on the global
stage, diplomacy may become hostage to them. Diplomacy could become, in
short, an extension of a domestic moralistic crusade. Such international
values conflicts may appear relatively benign compared to those that led
to the outbreak of the First World War. But do not be fooled. Cultural
rivalries, and disputes over lifestyles and values, are extremely
difficult to resolve because they are intimately linked to basic moral
questions, even to the meaning of good and evil. As a result, these
disputes are rarely susceptible to pragmatic solutions and can easily
escalate into dangerous rivalries. Let 1914 be a warning to all those
who presume to lecture other nations' inhabitants about how to live
their lives.
(18) Kremlin accuses Hebdo of provoking the attack;
Muslim mobs target
Christians
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-18/charlie-hebdo-france-defends-freedom-of-speech-amid-clashes/6023394
Charlie
Hebdo: French president Francois Hollande defends freedom of
speech amid
worldwide protests over Prophet Mohammed cover
Updated 17 minutes agoSun
18 Jan 2015, 12:14am
French president Francois Hollande says anti-Charlie
Hebdo protesters in
other countries do not understand France's attachment to
freedom of speech.
He was speaking a day after the satirical weekly's
publication of a
cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed sparked violent clashes,
including
deaths, in some Muslim countries. [...]
A cartoon image of
Mohammed on this issue's front page - showing the
Prophet shedding a tear
and holding a sign saying "all is forgiven" -
has outraged many in the
Muslim world, triggering violent demonstrations
in Algeria, Niger and
Pakistan.
The magazine's distributors said its print run had been lifted
to 7
million copies, dwarfing its usual circulation of only 60,000.
[...]
At least two churches were torched in Niger's capital on Saturday
as
protests raged on against the publication, French news agency AFP
reported.
About 100 helmeted riot police stood in front of the Niamey
cathedral at
midday, protecting it from a crowd of stone-throwing
youths.
In a second day of clashes in the former French colony, police
fired
tear gas to disperse some 1,000 youths in front of the city's grand
mosque and protesters in several parts of the city were reportedly armed
with iron bars and clubs.
A police officer and three civilians were
killed on Friday in the city
of Zinder, while churches were burned and
Christian homes looted.
Several Algerian police officers were injured in
clashes with
demonstrators in Algiers after rioting broke out at the end of
a protest.
Protests also turned violent on Friday in the southern
Pakistan city of
Karachi, where police used tear gas and a water cannon
against
demonstrators outside the French consulate.
About 15,000
people rallied in Russia's Muslim North Caucasus region of
Ingushetia on
Saturday.
The crowd gathered for the officially sanctioned meeting in the
regional
capital Magas to protest "against cartoons of the prophet,
Islamaphobia
and insulting the beliefs of Muslims," the local government's
press
service said.
Regional head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov described the
publication of
caricatures of the Prophet as "state extremism on the side of
several
Western countries" in a statement addressed to the
protest.
"Instead of decisively condemning these destructive steps, the
political
authorities in the West are trying to set people of different
religions
and nationalities against each other," the statement
said.
Russia's media watchdog on Friday warned publications that printing
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was against the country's law and
ethical norms.
Media and communications ombudsman Roskomnadzor said
that publishing the
caricatures could be qualified as "inciting ethnic and
religious hatred"
and punished under anti-extremism laws.
Although
Russia's leadership extended its condolences to France, and
foreign minister
Sergei Lavrov participated in the unity march staged
last weekend,
pro-Kremlin commentators and Muslims accused the
cartoonists of provoking
the attack.
Another rally against the cartoons was due to be held on
Monday in the
neighbouring region of Chechnya.
Chechnya's leader
Ramzan Kadyrov said those who drew Mohammed cartoons
were "people without
spiritual and moral values" and pledged that
500,000 people would
participate in the rally.
Meanwhile, protest graffiti was also sprayed
outside the French cultural
centre in Gaza before dawn on
Saturday.
"You will go to hell, French journalists," read one of the
slogans
daubed on the walls of the cultural centre compound, which has been
closed since it was damaged in a fire last October.
"Anything but the
prophet," read another.
Police were deployed outside the compound's main
gate as well as on the
adjacent main road, AFP reported.
(19) Erdogan
warns that Charlie Hebdo is bringing the Clash of
Civilizations thesis to
life
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.637523
Wednesday,
January 21, 2015 Shvat 1, 5775
Erdogan warns of clash of civilizations
following Paris attacks
Decision to print millions of latest Charlie
Hebdo edition has nothing
to do with freedom of expression, says Turkish
president.
By Orhan Coskun and Jonny Hogg
Jan. 16, 2015 | 5:37
PM
REUTERS - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned of a
"clash
of civilizations" following the wake of the Islamist militant attacks
in
Paris and he also appeared to criticize France for allowing the wife of
one of the gunmen to travel via Turkey to Syria.
Erdogan, a devout
Sunni Muslim, has already accused the West of
hypocrisy after the attacks
last week in which the gunmen killed 17,
including 12 at the offices of the
satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
The three gunmen were also
killed.
Speaking at a businessmen's meeting in the capital Ankara,
Erdogan said
Charlie Hebdo was known for its provocative
publications.
"We are following with great concern the attacks against
Islam hidden
behind the attack on the satirical magazine in France," said
Erdogan,
who has become an increasingly vocal critic of what he sees as
mounting
Islamaphobia in the West.
"Despite all our efforts to
prevent it, the clash of civilizations
thesis is being brought to
life."
Charlie Hebdo has published numerous cartoons mocking religious
figures
including Jesus, Pope Frances and the Prophet Mohammad.
Its
first edition since the attacks depicted the Prophet, provoking
renewed
outrage among some Muslims.
Erdogan said the decision to print millions
of copies of the magazine
had nothing to do with freedom of expression and
was instead
"terrorizing the freedom of others."
A Turkish newspaper
which reproduced part of the magazine is currently
being investigated by
prosecutors.
Without giving names, Erdogan also appeared to take aim at
the French
authorities for allowing Hayat Boumeddiene, the wife of one of
the
gunmen, to travel to Turkey in the days before the attacks. She is now
thought to be in Syria. [...]
(20) Daniel Cohn-Bendit, & some
Trots, condemn Charlie Hebdo for
Provocation promoting the Clash of
Civilizations
http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2012/09/19/charlie-hebdo-pour-rama-yade-c-est-la-une-de-trop_847333
Caricatures
: pour Dati, <<Charlie>> a fait <<un coup éditorial>>
inopportun
19 septembre 2012 à 10:15 (Mis à jour : 20 septembre 2012 à
13:48)
(AFP) TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH
Caricatures for Dati,
"Charlie" was "an editorial coup" inappropriate
September 19, 2012 at
10:15 (Updated: September 20, 2012 at 13:48 )
[...] Daniel Cohn-Bendit at
a meeting of the Green Party EE-LV, March
14, 2012 in Strasbourg. Daniel
Cohn-Bendit (photo AFP), of EELV,
Thursday described as "idiots" and
"masochists" those responsible for
Charlie Hebdo which published the day
before virulent Mohammed cartoons.
"I think they're idiots," commented on
BFMTV and RMC co-chair of the
Green Group in the European Parliament, asked
about this publication as
deadly violence occurred in several countries
around the Islamophobic
film clip "I have always understood the provocation.
is tap those who
have the power, "argued Daniel Cohn-Bendit." As far as I
know, this is
not the Salafis and the cretins in the Muslim world who have
the power. "
For him, "all fundamentalist is con: be it Christian
fundamentalism,
Jewish, secular or Muslim" For the MEP, the leadership of
Charlie Hebdo
are as "masochists.. They must like getting hurt. They say:
"We will
strike like that we'll have the police, they will be afraid, it
will
make us enjoy. '" "Do not tell me there are no limits in the
provocation. This is not true. There are limitations in the provocation
when talking example of the Holocaust, "according to
Cohn-Bendit.
"When you are on a powder keg, we have the right to think
thirty seconds
if we take his match and lighter," said the
ecologist.
Olivier Besancenot October 22, 2009. The NPA has renewed
Thursday in
terms much alive, his criticism against Charlie Hebdo, ruling
that the
weekly "participates in the reactionary imbecility of the clash of
civilizations."
In a statement, the New Anti-Capitalist Party in
writing with the
publication, "" Charlie Hebdo "has achieved its goal: to
talk about him,
but in doing so, he participated in this demagogic
agitation, political
tensions and diversion which Media delight in giving
more publicity. "
"In his own way," Charlie Hebdo "participates in the
reactionary idiocy
of the" clash of civilizations "," denounces the
Trotskyist party, which
sees "more than a blunder." Wednesday, Olivier
Besancenot (photo AFP)
ruled that publication "inappropriate."
[...]
Co-Chair of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (photo AFP),
defended on
Europe 1 "right to caricature," but also to "manifest", provided
that
this is done "in accordance with the law."
"Many Muslims believe
that God does not care about what is there in"
Charlie Hebdo ". He does not
care. And others think that if, "said
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who was asked
about the Muhammad cartoons published
by the weekly. They "have the right to
express their views and express
their dissatisfaction, as long as everyone
does his right, the right of
mockery, the right to caricature and the right
to protest (...) in the
respect for the law, "he added." They are always
made fun of everything
from everyone, without any precautions ... They are
within their rights,
we are a free country, "said Jean -Luke Mélenchon
speaking of Charlie Hebdo.
However, he immediately added, "it is true
that the drawing offends the
faith and beliefs (...) some of our Muslim
fellow citizens." The leader
of the Left Front has questioned the other hand
on the precautionary
measures taken by the government in twenty Muslim
countries. "Why
believe a priori that Muslims around the world would be
anti-French
because three drawings are published in a newspaper? (...) They
think
that Muslims are not able to distinguish things? "He asked
himself.
Jean-Francois Cope to his supporters in Châteaurenard on 26
August 2012.
The secretary general of the UMP, Jean-Francois Cope,
"regretted"
Wednesday the publication "in a context of very large tensions"
of
Mohammed cartoons in the satirical weekly Charlie Weekly, saying it was
"a provocation that can lead to violence inexcusable." Cope stressed,
however, that "freedom of expression (was) essential, non-negotiable,
the cartoon is part".
But, he continued, "there is a context, which
is that very large
especially tensions in some countries of the Near and
Middle East, and
in this context, it must still be careful to avoid which
could be
considered as provocations and result in violence that would affect
French interests directly or primarily of persons residing in those
countries. "
For him, "there is a risk" and "cartoons published at
this time are
obviously a provocation that can lead to inexcusable violence,
which may
have meanwhile terrible consequences." Jean-Francois Cope has held
that
the it was "a time when one must appeal to the responsibility." [...]
==
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/15/pers-j15.html
Racist
provocation and the "war on terror"
Patrick Martin
15 January
2015
[...] There is no difference in principle between cartoons
distorting
and degrading the prophet Muhammad and the anti-black caricatures
of the
Ku Klux Klan or, for that matter, the anti-Semitic caricatures long
popular in the neo-fascist and neo-Nazi camp. [...] ==
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58041
Paris
massacre: Abbott's response 'no solution to cycle of violence'
Friday,
January 16, 2015
By Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance
condemns the massacre of journalists, cartoonists
and others at and around
the offices of the Paris-based publication
Charlie Hebdo. However offensive
anyone may have found some of the
cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, this
act of brutal violence is not
justified. [...]
This latest act of
brutality does not justify the "clash of
civilisations" hysteria that is
widely used by racists to justify
ongoing and new imperial wars,
anti-refugee and anti-immigrant policies
and laws and anti-democratic
“security” laws. [...]
(21) Kosher Grocery Victims charged $13K for
Jerusalem Funerals
http://forward.com/articles/212687/kosher-grocery-victims-charged-k-for-jerusalem/
By
JTA
Published January 13, 2015.
Jerusalem -- Israel's burial
association charged each of the families of
the Paris kosher supermarket
victims nearly $13,000 for their Jerusalem
burial plots and
funerals.
The charges were levied by the Chevra Kadisha, part of the
Religious
Services Ministry, after the families refused to bury the men in
multi-story tombs, which would have been free, Ynet reported late
Tuesday.
Some $10,000 was to cover the costs of the burial plots, and
another
$3,000 was to help absorb the funeral costs. The French Jewish
community
reportedly will handle the latter.
The men were buried in
the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Givat Shaul,
Jerusalem's largest burial
ground. The families initially had been
offered burials in the historic
Mount of Olives cemetery but declined
because of security considerations,
Ynet reported.
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