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- It's been almost 15 years that we have not stopped explaining the reality of the famous frontpage @Charlie_Hebdo_First #Cabu its author & #Charb before their assassination, then P. #Val & R. #Malka finally @CarolineFourest where me and the others
Do not despair!
- First mistake to avoid : forget to recall the context of this publication: assassination of T. Van Gogh (November 2004)
climate of self-censorship around Islam in the Netherlands and ScandinaviaPublication by @jyllandsposten of 12 caricatures of Muhammad (September 2005)
- After this publication, no notable reactions. But a group of Danish imams (Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood) took care of this affair, visited several Arab capitals to stir up the crowds.I told it at the time in a book and a TV report
- Demonstrations took place from November 2005 the day after the tour of the Danish imams. And the situation was going to worsen at the beginning of 2006. The newspapers started to publish the cartoons out of solidarity and France Soir published them on February 1, 2006
- Following this decision, Jacques Lefranc, director of the publication of France Soir, was sacked on the evening of February 1, 2006 by the Franco-Egyptian boss of the daily, Raymond Lakah (photo)A real climate of censorship and self-censorship is taking hold in France
- During the first days of February 2006, some newspapers, sometimes against the advice of their shareholders, especially those who had interests with Arab countries, publish all or part of the cartoons: @LEXPRESS @lobs and timidly @libe @lemondefr or @courrierinter
- In a context of national and international controversies, threats and intimidation, @Charlie_Hebdo_ decided to devote, on February 8, 2006, a "special edition" to this affair. Out of solidarity with the threatened media but above all to do one's job
- @Charlie_Hebdo_ had decided to publish the Danish cartoons (which, for the most part, were not extraordinary) and decided to make others through his own cartoonists. #Cabu recognized humanist, recognized anti-racist, convinced secularist had then made this drawing
-This drawing will be the subject of further manipulation, this time on the part of French Islamists who claimed that it was insulting Muslims. Lie ! #Cabu had illustrated a prophet holding his head and a surtitle: "Muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists"
- #Cabu then made #Mahomet say: "It's hard to be loved by idiots", specifying that fundamentalists - that is to say, Shiite or Sunni Islamists, Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood - were idiots .What is abnormal on the front page of a satirical newspaper ?
- In popular parlance, "con" is one of the most used words in French society. Getting excited because someone called extremists "con" is either bad faith or an extremist reaction, certainly an attitude for idiots. Take a look at these photos
- I'm going to dwell on the notion of a #Muhammad complaining about extremists and possibly calling them idiots.If most of the Muslims who hysterize the debate over every criticism of extremists knew better about their religion, they would act differently from this
- For at least two reasons since their prophet according to official historiography on the one hand complained about the extremists and on the other hand referred to their "foolish ambitions". It sounds like a con, right ?In fact #Cabu reproduced the thought of a hadith
- The 17th correctional chamber of Paris had defended this One. The court recalled the principle of freedom of expression, of free criticism of religions, insisting that this drawing was not outrageous for Muslims but for extremists
- Therefore, this drawing and all the others should be republished. The stakes are high, because after having muzzled most of the Arab intellectuals and media, the Islamists seek to terrify Western societies and question democratic principles
-It is necessary that @Charlie_Hebdo_ can continue to be outrageous to all religions and attack Islamists to desecrate their doctrine. Why would Islam be given special treatment in a newspaper that mocks all religions?
- Finally, I'm Charlie « Je suis Charlie ! »And to use a popular expression in France: « Mort aux cons! » Especially all those who think they terrify us by the threat, but also their allies and useful idiots !
