I read in the Telegraph that Henri Roussel, an eighty year old founding member of Charlie Hebdo, criticises the murdered editor Stéphane Charbonnier for leading the magazine into last week's disaster. 'What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?' 'Charbonnier was a 'great lad' but a 'blockhead' and he 'shouldn't have done it,' he wrote in the left-wing magazine Nouvel Obs. In the piece, he tells how he wrote some time ago to Charbonier telling him, 'I really hold it against you,' presumably in connection with the provocative Mohammed cartoons, published in 2011 and 2012.
Well, in the light of our focus on freedom of speech, Roussel is entitled to his view and to have it printed in a magazine, but I really disagree with him. People who come to live in modern, Europe need to understand that this is how we are; rude, irreverent, outspoken. They live in, or have come to live in Europe. We did not ask them to come here in the main, and they must accept us as we are. The difference between the victims of Charlie Hebdo's mockery who were Catholics, Jews, drug addled professional cyclists, politicians, and the Muslims, is that although they were all embarrassed, offended and even angered, none of them were moved to barbarism but the Muslims. Burning down magazine offices and murdering cartoonists is not what we class as acceptable discourse in Europe. The offended, had better learn that quickly.
Events at Charlie Hebdo will prove to be a watershed. There will be no more tolerance of extremism. If you want to live in the west, even if like the murderers you were born here, you had better accept us as we are. If you don't like us; if you are scandalised by our behaviour, our clothes, the fact that our women are our equals, then move to the lands where your sensibilities will be respected. Here Mohammed is just a violent Dark Age thug who rode about the deserts of Arabia, forcing others to respect his made up revelations. Get used to that opinion, because it isn't going to change.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Founder of Charlie Hebdo criticises provocation by magazine
I read in the Telegraph that Henri Roussel, an eighty year old founding member of Charlie Hebdo, criticises the murdered editor Stéphane Charbonnier for leading the magazine into last week's disaster. 'What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?' 'Charbonnier was a 'great lad' but a 'blockhead' and he 'shouldn't have done it,' he wrote in the left-wing magazine Nouvel Obs. In the piece, he tells how he wrote some time ago to Charbonier telling him, 'I really hold it against you,' presumably in connection with the provocative Mohammed cartoons, published in 2011 and 2012.
Well, in the light of our focus on freedom of speech, Roussel is entitled to his view and to have it printed in a magazine, but I really disagree with him. People who come to live in modern, Europe need to understand that this is how we are; rude, irreverent, outspoken. They live in, or have come to live in Europe. We did not ask them to come here in the main, and they must accept us as we are. The difference between the victims of Charlie Hebdo's mockery who were Catholics, Jews, drug addled professional cyclists, politicians, and the Muslims, is that although they were all embarrassed, offended and even angered, none of them were moved to barbarism but the Muslims. Burning down magazine offices and murdering cartoonists is not what we class as acceptable discourse in Europe. The offended, had better learn that quickly.
Events at Charlie Hebdo will prove to be a watershed. There will be no more tolerance of extremism. If you want to live in the west, even if like the murderers you were born here, you had better accept us as we are. If you don't like us; if you are scandalised by our behaviour, our clothes, the fact that our women are our equals, then move to the lands where your sensibilities will be respected. Here Mohammed is just a violent Dark Age thug who rode about the deserts of Arabia, forcing others to respect his made up revelations. Get used to that opinion, because it isn't going to change.
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