They are Charlie, whether they like it or not.
If people really want to show their Free Speach resolve, better to republish the forbidden cartoons.
This argument doesn’t fly because none of the libs making it cared at all about the provacative, offensive nature of the the “piss Crist” or “Elephant dung Mary” when they were publically disseminaed. To the contrary, when Christians complained the left did nothing but scream “freedom of speech” and artistic expression.
And that is precisely why Odumbo didn't go to Paris...the last thing he wants to do is promote freedom of speech. For starters, it is one of the freedoms protected by the Constitution, which he abhors. Next, and more simply, he is gutless.
[ It’s unclear just how many of those sudden supporters of Charlie Hebdo really knew about Charlie Hebdo ]
Charlie Hebdo was by no doubt a very rude, crude, and offensive publication....
THAT being said they have every RIGHT to publish what they did!
I have to wonder if the reason that France is so worked up is because the French are Rude, Crude and Offensive and by attacking Charlie Nebdo the Islamists have attacked the #1 of the French and that is being Rude, Crude and Offensive.
It would be like if an islamo-maniac attacked a Football game inthe united states. We would probably see a greater reaction agsinst islamics than we even saw on 9/11.....
So did the Islamics attack Charie Hebdo, or did they attack the National Pastime of France???
Hence my tagline since #JuSuisCharlie appeared.
I sent them my memorial Charlie Hebdo cover concept - a roomful of slaughtered cartoonists and a proudly smiling terrorist saying “Je suis Charlie!” I was in an irreverent mood too.
Freedom of the press and freedom of speech includes the right to be offensive. One can recognize their right to be offensive without supporting what they print.
But the point behind freedom of speech isn't to protect the speech that we agree with, but rather that which we find disagreeable, irreverent, and objectionable. To claim that something is too far over some line means a tacit assumption that such a line can be drawn, and lines like that are drawn in sand, not etched in stone - subject to being revised based on the current mood of the "common agreement", which by nature does not like to be challenged.
Personally, I don't approve of mockery of religion as a general rule (specific religious leaders should be mocked when they deserve it, perhaps). But that said, je suis Charile. Freedom of expression cannot be sacrificed to savages who demand it be suppressed.
I was Charlie for a while back when I was 14, but that was still no reason for muslims to kill me.
Moi-même, je ne suis pas “Charlie Hebdo”. Au lieu de cela, j’aspire à être “Charlie Martel”.
Of course it is from the French word hebdomadaire meaning "weekly" (from the Greek hebdomas, "week").
It’s also unclear how the I am not Charlie crowd could so magnificently miss the entire point of the meme.
Ju Suis Charles Martel!