The terrorists who killed cartoonists should be found and prosecuted. Murder is not the way to right wrongs. Suing in court for slander, is. And Muslims may have a point about been wronged in this case, because even a cursory research shows what sort of systematic deliberate provocations that yellow magazine had been resorting to for quite a while, explicitly targeting religious faith. One could see things like this (NSFW (http://valsodar.blog.bg/photos/52113/original/1513172_10205581770454006_8733637638347901684_n.jpg)), or that photo where the "innocent" cartoonist was posing while licking the image of Muhammad.
That's not an expression of the freedom of speech. That's a deliberate provocation in very poor taste, aiming at gaining more publicity and doing more sales for the magazine. It's got nothing remotely resembling a social message in it. It's trolling. And as such, it should've been "openly addressed" - in court. Not on the battlefield that the magazine office was turned into.
The offended Muslims can't win this way. And the "indigenous Europeans" can't "win their land back from the barbarians" by throwing grenades on mosques. All they'll both get is more hatred and blood.
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Date: 8/1/15 14:37 (UTC)That's not an expression of the freedom of speech. That's a deliberate provocation in very poor taste, aiming at gaining more publicity and doing more sales for the magazine. It's got nothing remotely resembling a social message in it. It's trolling. And as such, it should've been "openly addressed" - in court. Not on the battlefield that the magazine office was turned into.
The offended Muslims can't win this way. And the "indigenous Europeans" can't "win their land back from the barbarians" by throwing grenades on mosques. All they'll both get is more hatred and blood.