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.

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.

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.

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!

Agreeeeeeed 100%

for example: Beirut danish embassy being burnt down over the cartoons a few years ago

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

Tolerance is what most of the Muslims should learn! Isn't so difficult to take it easy and relax?? The West offer them freedom and they abuse it!

anonymetexasusa, I agree there is a problem but I disagree with people generalizing about a whole religion or group by saying Muslims are this and that...that's the problem...you keep labeling more than 1 billion people like 1 entity and that's wrong.

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.......

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.

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!!!!!!!!!

ya bigjohn ya habibi 3afek inta masi7i 3am defi3 3an l eslem. ana ma3ak bi hel ne2ta! bass 3mol ma3rouf bala 2etihemet Zionist ma Zionist. Khlesna men hal mouda. Kelna Lebneniyi.
w ba3dena the regime that works the most and systematically to create frictions between the Lebanese is the Syrian Regime , the tyrant regime of Damascus. ye3ni sma7li fiya and stop distorting the reality!

Right on! But beware that this is the excuse they are using to hate, destroy, pillage and justify. The real reason behind it is driven by those using the ignorant, illiterate and poor Muslims as a vehicle to rule the world by the sword and keep the spoils for themselves! Power and Greed is what this is about.

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.

Lies, disinformation and fabrications used to make real a fantasy that legitimizes violence to achieve means.

Fiction!

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.

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...

anonymetexasusa, I know there is a problem and we need to fix...and like I always say "God Bless the USA" :)

anonymetexasusa, I cannot imagine the Middle east without its Christians...God Bless the USA...

anonymetexasusa, I wish and hope that one day we can put up lists that shows the good deeds of both and to both....Inshallah :)

anonymetexasusa, I really didn't know that...Thanks.