Edit: Damn, did not expect this to turn into today’s struggle sesh.
Here’s my both sides/both sides take. Should people be executed for drawing, publishing or showing hateful cartoons? Probably not.
What grosses me out is how Enlightened Secular France has spent centuries colonizing and brutalizing muslims and continues to oppress them with discriminatory laws while acting like the entire point of Free Speech TM is the right to degrade a profoundly marginalized minority.
As someone brought up in this thread, the whole Mohammad cartoon controversy reminds me of the perennial debate “why would a black person get violent if you call them the n-word, it’s just a word.” Context matters, when you purposely provoke an oppressed minority by shoving the thing they find most offensive in their face, you may get a violent reaction.
I don’t think this guy deserves to die at all, but Charlie Hebdo is very racist and it’s gross how people rally around it like it’s this bastion of free speech.
That said, death to A Wyatt Mann. Inshallah.
This is the stupidest shit
For a supposed secular, rational nation, the government giving the go-ahead to broadcast a dumb cartoon and then say “we will break the will of the Islamists” is complete fucking posturing
What does this accomplish? “Let’s alienate our most important population in this struggle–the ordinary Muslims that can act as informants or the voice of reason for the maniacs in their community. Let’s treat this like a huge cultural attack as opposed to a conventional crime. Let’s show that their attacks will cause our entire country to stop what it’s doing and freak out. Look at us, look at us”
It’s the idealized victimhood narrative of Christendom writ onto a state