Terrorist attack in Paris on French magazine

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And news from germany:


"As representatives of Western values and toleraance
we humbly apologize for our freedom of press and
freedom of speech and mind."

"And your sense of humour -
who apologises for your sense of humour?"

The creator of this cartoon, Ralf König, is one of Germany's leading cartoonists. He has now withdrawn this cartoon from an exhibition on Facebook, saying that he "might have gone one step too far", and worried by the chance of having enraged fanatics. He said: "Das muss aussehen wie Schwanz einziehen und Rückzieher, und ist es letztlich ja auch. Ich bin nicht stolz darauf, aber auch nicht interessiert, jetzt von den Medien nach vorne geschoben zu werden, da habe ich seinerzeit im Zusammenhang mit dem Karikaturenstreit um Jyllands Posten bereits ungute Erfahrungen gemacht.“ ("This must look like showing the white feather, and falling back, and in the end that is true, yes. I am not proud of it, but I am also not interested in being pushed forward by the media once again, like back then in context with the cartoons conflict by the Jyllands Poisten, that were pretty bad experiences.")

Na bitte. Funktioniert doch.

Some weeks ago, Dietrich Nuhr has been sued over charges of hate-speech by a Muslim fundamentalist for "repeatedly offending Islam". Dietrich Nuhr is one of the very best maybe currently even the best stage-satirist in germany. He is very intelligent and witty in his word games, and I do not know how often he has send me into bursting laughter. His strikes against Islam were anhythign but racist, but targetted the ideological fundament at the basis of Islam, and in a very stylish and well-toned manner. He has completely rejected to follow his persecutoir'S demands, and even went into charging mode, attacking his backwardly simplemindedness and fanatism in his unique intelligent witty way of using words and sentences as weapons. He did not waver once second, held his shows in huge - now sold-out - theatres and townhalls, gave interviews in which he took a resolute stand against the petrified mindset of Islam, and accepted not even the mildest hint for maybe considering to accept compromise. He won the well-deserved fruits for his determination, the court refused permission to bring the charges to trial.

That's the fighting spirit, Herr König. Else you have no right to call yourself a satirist anymore. Or take the comment that Penguin quoted, the chief editor of German satire magazine Titanic, he listed it some pages earlier in this thread: "A bloodbath like at Charlie could not happen with us. We are only six editors." - Brilliant!

BTW, there now also is a campaign running, "jesuisjeuf" - I am Jewish. Due to the Jewish supermarket terror attack, killing four. For some reasons so far that campaign does not attract as much sympathy and attention like jesuischarlie. Maybe because appeasers of Islam often tend to be more or less antisemitic, too, may it be for opportunism or for conviction.