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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Or it could just be that most papers recognize that the cartoons were in bad taste to begin with. What greater good is really served by reprinting them? Printing them does nothing but taunt both the extremists and ordinary Muslims.
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I think reprinting them shows solidarity with the cartoonists and the recognition that they didn't die for nothing. It's been frankly nauseating for me to read some self serving pieces in the herald and globe and mail about how "we are all Charlie" even though they were too cowardly to reprint the cartoons. The point of solidarity is if all media sources show the images the terrorists can't attack every media outlet, strength in numbers and all that. Beyond MAYBE the one with the make out scene the cartoons aren't even that obscene, it may be against Koranic law to draw Muhammad but thankfully France and the west are not ruled by Koranic law. That's the point the Hebdo guys were trying to make, and the point that all but a few media outlets have perverted.