Posted on 01/08/2015 12:56:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
PARIS (AP) — As if to prove that pens are mightier than swords, cartoonists around the world reacted to the cold-bloodied assassination of their colleagues at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as only they can: with powerful drawings worth thousands of words.
Defiant, angry, poignant, irreverent and sobering, their drawings united cartoonists in grief, tried to make sense of the nonsensical, and sent a shared message: We must not, will not and should not be silenced. Some drawings touched such a nerve they made one want to both laugh and cry..........
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There are 11 cartoons shown at the continuation of the article. The Danish cartoons flap was just a foretaste of Islamic madness.
The Muzzies really screwed up on this one. Cartoonists are part of the media. Up to now, the media were the greatest supporters of the Islamists. Now they have been attacked. The media (or at least Cartoonists) will be like people who gave up smoking - they will lead the “anit” crusade. The tide may have finally turned against the Muzies in France and Europe.
Dream on
Admirable, but can the media pencil itself from the ditch it dug?
I think this may be a turning point too. But not so much because the media has been attacked, but because this is a significant emotional event, and not only for the French. The people seem to realize that their freedoms are under attack, and part of their frustration is that they know their governments aren't going to do anything. It's the people who must react.
The gatherings last night of tens of thousands in countries throughout Europe indicate that at the very least a catharsis has occurred, whether action will follow is the question.
What is a moderate Muslim? Can we afford to continue to attempt to make a distinction? Of course not. This is the conclusion the people have come to, it has become now a matter of the preservation of civilization.
I think many of these guys are doing this because it’s little more than the hip thing to do this week, as cynical as that sounds. What better way to get some quick Internet fame right now?
Let’s see if any of these cartoonist start drawing Mohammed and publishing it. So far, I haven’t seen anything.
No, right-wing media has been attacked. Do you think MSNBC and CNN would be terribly upset over an attack on Fox?
“What is a moderate Muslim?”
A former Muslim.
Europeans are much more liberal than Americans, and much more skeptical of government and other institutions; these guys who were killed had more guts than all of our media combined (continuing with their work even after a bombing of their offices a few years back). For all of the anti-French sentiment here, France is a country that strictly forbids the wearing of veils by Muslim girls in public schools; they know the threat they face, and don’t try to lull their people into a false sense of security. They demand assimilation of their immigrants, while we pretend our immigrants are here to “fix” the WASP culture that made this country a superpower.
In quality, however, and degree of abomination, the two are equivalent. And their source is the same as most of the other abominations being committed around the world: the Religion of Peace.
I wish I believed that.
But yesterday afternoon, the very day of the attack, some a$$hole on CNN was trying to draw parallels between the religious fanaticism of the terrorists and that of Jerry Falwell. After all, he DID sue Hustler magazine for libel...
The hard-core-left media WILL not learn because they do not WANT to learn.
Exactly. All of these professions of "standing strong" mean nothing if it is not coupled with doubling down on the "offensive" speech.
OOps.
Sorry, it was MSNBC.
AMEN, I second it!
Not really.
With the help of the internet, the cartoons have gone viral.
We will know when the media REALLY turns when they actually start PUBLISHING the actual cartoons humiliating Mohammed, not broken pencils. The broken pencils are an ironic emblem of what they are.
It is an odd time for this to occur. Monday was the release of the book “Submission” in France, which details a fictional France in a decade, which is Islamic in nature. Living here in Europe....I’d say that this book release and coverage over the subject hit maximum intensity Monday night, and this cartoonist event just iced the cake. The vast public of France has a pretty harsh opinion now, and it’ll reflect in future elections. Right-wing gov’t coming to France, and it’ll be a different atmosphere.
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