Drawing the Line

For the crime of printing satirical pictures that didn't carry the Islamic seal of approval, a publisher and his top editors are going to be dragged into court tomorrow.

Where? Egypt? Indonesia? Somalia?

Try France.

Comments

[Steve Ely]

Ignoring for a moment the contemptibly censorship-loving idea that speech which offends (in this case, bigoted speech) should be illegal, I thought this was a weird quote: "Two of those caricatures make a link between Muslims and Muslim terrorists. That has a name and it's called racism." Why do people keep suggesting Islam is a race?

[ben]

Steve, you mean Christians are not a race of their own?
I also love this one: "One can have differences of opinion about religion, but one cannot spout hate because hate favours violence."

... and violence favours hate. Who came first, egg or hen?

[Martin Owens]

The French castrate their own press ( and self respect) for a few indignant mullahs? Wow, just think of what you could get out of the French establishment if you yelled at 'em in German! Apparently they need somebody to crawl to.