France Braces for Mohammed Cartoons Backlash

French court stopped the pictures of Kate Middelton by legal messieurs, but do not act to stop pictures of Prophet Mohammad. Double standards.

he is not as glamorous as Kate ..

this magazine and its editors should be held to account according to their own anarchist dogma.

Well little Ben, the picture of kate went out all over the world, in closer and chi magazine. Kate Middleton then sued the magazine but it was to late. the damage was done. Now Kate is living person. you can ask mohammad or any one representing him in France to sue charlie hebdo because till now no one single muslim have done it. Too lazy, they are more intersted in going to the street like savages. My personal opinion is that all those species that went into the street breaking shops, burning cars and building are young ignorant men with an excess of testosteron and a lack of sex

Charlie hebdo exists since 1960. still doing profit, never went bankrupt and certainly do not need publicity! and i really dont see what is wrong with the picture.

YES to the freedom of the speech and expression. NO to bigotry and savagery. Our forefathers have fought and died to secure that we live in a free world. We won't allow your retarded, oppressive beliefs to stand in our way!
- You don't like the book I wrote, don't read it!
- You don't like the movie I made, don't watch it!
END OF DISCUSSION! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

For the sake of world peace, all countries should decree that any attacks on any prophit, especially Muhammad, should be forbidden once and for all. Like this we save all nations the backlashes that cost a lot and threat destabilization of the world peace.

Silly newspaper...almost bankrupt...and totally bankrupt of honest and moral values.

I would much rather have seen Kate Middleton than this silly cartoon. But for France to have to close its embassies for this shows how regressive human beings are.

Let's see if you can publish anything anti Jewish in the West? Or let say pro Nazi articles in Germany? Double standards exist big time…

You can publish anything anti-Jewish or anti-Christian in the west. But you cannot publish anything anti-Jews, or anti-blacks, or anti-Asians. You can attack and criticize ideology all you want, but attacking a person or group of people is illegal. There's a huge difference between a religion and a group of people. This is the fundamental nuance that many people are missing.

Mowaten, Sarkozy or a president would never do such thing and if he really did please send us the link on internet of a credible source... The court rejected the lawsuit because there is nothing in french law restricting the freedom of speech

Criticizing an ideology is the fundamental cornerstone of free speech, which many Muslims are not accepting. This is different than hate speech, which is illegal and is aimed at a person or group of people. In the West hate speech is illegal while in is tolerated in the East. Look how racist we are towards Sri Lankans, Indians, Philipinos, Syrians, etc. But if someone criticizes a religion, the world is turned up-side-down.

To Ben & Mowaten
I don't know about previous lawsuit against charlie hebdo, or Sarko's interference...In any case, they should have taken it to court this time as well. As phalangist pointed out, there has been a French court ruling to ban any further release of photos of Kate, and to fine the magazines that published her photos. So if someone in France sues charlie hebdo for these new cartoons, then at least they could stop circulation of current Charlie Hebdo cartoons or publications of new ones by Charle hebdo, until the French court rules on this matter.
This would be a more civilized approach.
Mowaten...You cannot deny that Muslim world has a tendency to favor violent reactions to peaceful protests. We have seen it on numeros occasions more than anywhere else in the world. Remember when Taliban blew up the biggest/oldest/most sacred statues of Buddah, all Buddhist were sad, but they didn't go about slaughtering muslims for it.

To Cloudhopper / Allouchi
Remember when Taliban blew up the biggest/oldest/most sacred statues of Buddah, all Buddhist were sad, but they didn't go about slaughtering muslims for it. You cannot deny that Muslim world has a tendency to favor violent reactions to peaceful protests. We have seen it on numeros occasions more than anywhere else in the world. Muslim around the world need to address this, if they wished to peacefully coexist with the rest of the religions around the world

and freedom of expression is sacred in France and it is certainly not a muslim who is gonna change that! any unhappy muslim can pack his bag and go back from where he originally came, because remember France isnt a muslim country. you adapt or you go!

10 years ago, there was a slew of rape attacks against Australian girls going to the beaches. Finally the police was able to identified and arrest many of the rapers, who turned out to be muslim Lebanese.
The most striking thing about this story, is that they all went to the same mosque, and when the sheikh of the mosque was interviewed about the incident, the sheikh simply responded that the men should not be punished because it is the Australian girls fault, because they were wearing indicent - skimpy clothing.
Did you see any Australian mob torching the Lebanese Embassy there in protest....No.

trueself (Guest)
I totally disagree...
There should be a global ban to any violent backlashes, no matter what the offense is.
The very basics of freedom of speech and of thinking, is to having to put up other people's freedom of thought and speech, even if that somehow offends you.
In certain muslim countries (Pakistan for example) the mere presence of Non-Sunni among them is an insult against Islam because those non-muslims are desecrating a muslim land.
Are you suggesting a decree banning non muslims from existance on muslim lands.

in every free country there should be a funny publication and a Cartoon that depict MOHAMMAD in solidarity of free speech and let all those hardliner Muslim blow up and hell break loose

the west is giving muslims freedom, like the freedom of irak???????/
the west is taking ressources, he cant live without.....it is not arab spring, its muslim awakening, and the USA is the first(astonishingly)who understood the new equation, ask mursi.
we must keep opium(religion)away from lebanon as far as we can,to save our lebanon,or.......

How come there is no "basic free speech" in France when questioning what happened in WWII??? racist hypocrites!

Still, violent reaction is not justified. What is justified is violent resistance to blood thirsty western and Israeli imperialists who are colonizing and occupying.

ya jame3a I agree with your "freedom of thought and speech". bass you are generalizing!
ma darouri deghri netehem kel el moslemin! kelna 3enna asdika2 men tawe2if mokhtalifi ma bikharbo walla bikasro w open mind 2ad ma badak!

fa ka lebneniyi wa7idin bel 3alam 3ena shebeh ta3eyosh moslim-masi7i, bisharafkoun khalouna nentebih la kel kelmi 3am n2oula: heda mawdou3 7essess w bye2zi l 2aghlabiyi menna. khalina netfaham din gherna ta n7asen l ta3eyoch ma3 ba3ed 2ala wa 2ila ma7a ne2dir n3ish ma3 ba3ed!

yali bi kharib w bi kassir lezim yet7ekam. khalina n7adid shou l ghalat w bala generalisation! Please

The muslim world could protest peacefully and submit a petition or open a law suit to fine the makers of the movie. No JEW bombed Mel Gibson because he produced PASSION OF THE CHRIST, No Christian acted with force again South Park for Showing virgin mary bleeding. A priest from Florida burned the Qur'an but did not protest against humans... This priest will be judged because he burned a book which has the name Jesus peacefully over 154 times...
God is Love and Forgivness, let God be the judge, not angry humans.

Allouchi
Part 1
In some Pakistan villages where few remaining Christian Pakistanis live, when a muslim makes an allegation that One Christian neighbor has desecrated or insulted Islam, a mob of muslims immediately go on a rampage, killing and buring ALL the homes of ALL christians they encounter. They don't wait to verify the facts, they don't say "let's take the culprit to the authorities to check this out, and they will punish him if found guilty"...No they just instinctively attack all Christians. And that happens also in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Indonesia, or any other Muslim majority country, where a very small minority of Christians happen to live among them.
Where as in Chrisitan countries if someone comes along and told people that he just saw a muslim desecrating and insulting Christ (And it happen all the time) The only reaction by Christians is to say "God have mercy on him - because he has sinned"

Part 2
That's why you have hundreds of millions of Muslims living & prospering in Christian majorty countries, with millions of muslims emigrating every year to Europe, US, Canada and other Christian countries, while you only have a few millions native Christians left in the whole muslim world, and those Native Christians remaining are being staunchly harrassed and persecuted by their brethern muslim nationals to kick them out, and the result is a constant dwindeling of Christians in the Middle East, and any other Muslim majority country.

Allouchi
Part 3
Based on all the above, yes - we can safely generalize the problem to the entire 1 billion muslim...because even though only a few thousand muslims out of a billion are doing the nasty outrageous crimes against other religions, the remaining of the 1 billion suspiciously don't do anything to stop them.

ya anonymetexasusa!

HEda l 7aki yali 3am te7ki hayyin ktir! haydi l karahiyi yali bi kel wa7ad fina khalina nedfena!
fik bikel sohouli te7ki l 3akess masalan :
" Amerka l balad l 2a2wa bel 3alam, w kel l 3ale2at l kharijiyi btemra2 bi washignton, amerka bi siyeseta bted3am Isra2il da3em shemel wala 2aya balad 3alami bye7sal 3a hek mose3adi, l feslstini sha7atou men ardou, l 3ira2i kharaboulou balado w fawato bi 7areb ma 2ila ekhir bi 7ejit l chemical weapons yali ma fi 3enda shi menel 7a2i2a........" 3atol l moslim da7iyeh, shou ra2yak?

Heda kalem hayin w sahel, ne7na ka lebneniyi ma bi2admna wala bi 2akherna heda l kalem, ne7ana lezim ne3ti masal l ta3eyosh lal 3alam, masi7iyet heda l balad gher masi7iyet l western counties, w 2eslem heda l balad gher 2eslem l motatarif! Haydi l fekra yali lezim neshteghil 3laya!!!!!!!!!

Only Muslims do "nasty outrageous crimes"??? Here in Lebanon, This month is the 30th anniversary of the Sabra-Shatilla massacre. Which country (America) have killed millions since WWII by invading and occupying other countries. In WWII was Hitler a Muslim or a Catholic?( By the way, I am from a Christian background from Koura). People emigrate mostly for economic reasons that is why you have many non-Muslim workers in Lebanon and the rest of the middle east. You are a Zionist who wants the Christians to leave the middle East (especially occupied Palestine) by creating frictions between the Lebanese. Most Lebanese are smart enough to understand your divide and conquer poison.

anonymetexasusa, Even though I agree with some points of yours but I disagree with some major assumptions on your part, for instance you are forgetting human nature, someone might ignore/accept when others criticizes his/her religion, family, country etc. if they are from the same religion, family and country..it has much less negative effect then someone from a different religion, family and country did so...especially if not only criticizing but insulting their most sacred believes...Your biggest misconception is that your analysis justifies your generalization of 1 billion Muslim is grossly inaccurate and weak. You are dehumanizing Muslims to suit your believes. One more point, Muslim organizations and scholars all over the world publicly condemned the violence, do a web search please…..finally, I strongly agree and believe that nothing justifies this violence.

" Those Muslims who are still easily offended should learn to accept that what is sacred to them means nothing to others" once they do they could easily integrate with the rest of the world.

bigjohn
If the United State or the State of Israel did something bad to a Muslim somewhere in the world - be it, Afghanistan, Irak, or somewhere else...why should a Lebanese Muslim feel compelled to take it out on his fellow Lebanese Christian?
Don't tell me this doesn't happen....Look at what happened in Ashrafieh after the Danish Cartoon.
Face it, while US acts as a state acts based on its interest, and to safeguard its people (including the 6 mio muslim americans) it doesn't care about Christians per-say.
For Muslims however, When Russian planes bombarded Chenchen towns, Egyptian Sunnis attacked Egyptian Coptic Churches as a reprisal...Go Figure, it doesn't matter that Coptic Egyptians had nothing to do with Russia bombarding Chechniya..They are Christians then they are guilty.

bigjhon
Interesting that you mentioned how many non-Muslim workers choose to come and work in Lebanon and the rest of the middle east.
And how do you describe the working/living conditions of those millions of Non-Muslim foreign workers who work in Lebanon & the Middle East. Aren't they automatically stripped from any human rights, and be put to work like slaves, and subjected to sub-standard living conditions, if not sometimes tortured by their boss. The only reason they have to endure all that, is to provide for their families at home.
Tell me, when a North African Muslim go to France or Canada, do they get treated in the same manner??? Of course not. They feel insulted when sometime they don't get same job opportunities, even if they still collect un-employed benefit.

You are criticizing the actions of a few hoodlums, which I agree with you. Recently in the US, a woman was stabbed to death because she was a Muslim and a man shot to death 4 Sikhs outside a temple believing they were Muslims because he did not like Muslims....that was their crime to be executed. This happens every place. you just need to open your mind and read ALL the news. The US government and the entire population is not to be blamed for this. I am more concerned what governments have done.

Bigjohn
True...But muslims keep flocking to the US because despite the few incidents against muslims that occur, due to few deranged persons...muslims in the US do know that the state and the vast majority of the US population are keen on safeguarding their muslim citizens, and their prosperity.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Egypt, Algeria, Pakistan, or any other majority muslim nation, where the Christian minority are made to feel that the state backed by the majority of muslim population do not want them there, and are being pushed into emigration

Islamophibia
1994-2001: Hate crimes victimizing
Muslims and vandalizing mosques

1994: An arsonist started a fire that burned to the ground a nearly completed mosque in Yuba City. CA.

1995: The Islamic center in Springfield IL was destroyed by arson.

1995-SEP-17: Vandals painted obscenities and graffiti on the windows, walls and trees of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, in Patterson, NJ. Flammable liquid was found on the floor of an outbuilding; this might have been an attempted arson.

1995-SEP: Vandals attacked the mosque at Clarkston, GA by breaking windows, damaging lights, discharging fire extinguishers, and burning satanic symbols (inverted pentagrams) into the carpet.

1995-OCT-21:The Islamic Center and Masjid of Greenville, SC, was destroyed in an arson attack. A suspect was later charged.

1995-OCT-21: Vandals painted an obscene message on the wall of the Flint Islamic Center/Genesee Academy in Flint, MI.

1996-MAR-19: Employees of a radio station in Denver, CO entered the local mosque after morning prayers. They allegedly played the national anthem on a trumpet, harassed the worshipers, and broadcast the incident live on radio. An agreement was later concluded between the local Muslim community and the radio station. It included a public apology by the station, sensitivity training for station employees and PSAs that offered a positive image of Islam.

1998-JAN-28: A 23 year old man was arrested for allegedly smashing a concrete block through the glass front door of the mosque in Fort Collins, CO.

1998-JAN-29: Vandals scattered metal spikes in the parking lot of the Flint Islamic Center in Flint, MI. A number of cars had flat tires.

1998-FEB-22: A vandal threw a beer bottle through the second floor window of the mosque in Bloomingdale, IN.

1998-MAR-8: Someone torched three school busses owned by the local Islamic school in Ottawa, ON Canada.

1999-MAY: A man was arrested after fleeing in his car from the area of a mosque in Denver CO. Loaded weapons, machetes, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and bomb making materials were found in his car. Jack Merylin Modig was later arrested. He allegedly said "I am an enemy against the Islamic nation [sic] and I was going to take care of business."

1999-JUN-23: CFRB, a Toronto, ON Canada radio station broadcasted a live call-in program. The initial topic dealt with a Greek Orthodox priest who refused admittence of a seeing-eye dog into his church. A caller criticized religious extremism. He said "Nero burned the wrong people - he should have burned the Muslims." The announcer tried to change to another topic. The operations manager of CFRB later apologized. They have since drawn up new guidelines for operations during call-in shows.

1999-MAR-5: A mosque was seriously damaged by an arsonist in Minneapolis, MN

1999: Three youths were charged with vandalism of a Villa Park IL mosque, near Chicago. They allegedly threw several large chunks of concrete and a glass milk bottle through four windows of the Islamic Foundation.

2000-JUN-20: A gunman seriously injured a worshiper at an Islamic Center in Memphis, TN. The door to the mosque was damaged by a shotgun blast.

2000-NOV: A suspicious fire gutted the lobby of a mosque in Surrey, British Columbia, and severely damaged the rest of the building. There were no injuries reported. Witnesses reported seeing a van speeding away from the mosque just before an explosion was heard.

Allouchi
I refer you to my response to Bigjohn, whereby i acknowledge that such incident do occurr, but while muslims in the states still feel safe, free, and able to prosper, and that the country truely embraces them, cares for them, their safety, and their well being.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about Christians in the Middle East or other Majority Muslim countries

My point is that thugs and criminals exist everywhere but that shouldn't give us the right to label all Muslims or all Christians or all American or all westerners as this and that...no one is 100% innocent...

Allouchi
I can easily pull a 10 times longer list of attacks committed by Muslims against Christians...and i am talking about deadly attacks - slaughter - decapitations etc...
If i want to include the Vandals type of attacks, the list would be 100 times longer than yours.
YOU KNOW THAT

Allouchi / BigJohn
Don't bother with Bandoul
He is just an Israeli, whose sole purpose through his comments on naharnet, is to sow some poisenous discord among Lebanese.