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Originally Posted by fulham
So its not ok to taunt ordinary Muslims, or extremists? The media literally taunts everybody. Who cares if the cartoons bother ordinary muslims, they need to realize the larger context in this situation.
to what DiracSpike said, the media does not trust the muslims in their community wherever that may be. Ordinary Muslims don't seem to be ashamed of this fact.
After the tens of thousands that showed up to protest islamaphobia in Germany, Its quite ironic that the muslims in a community that had large anti racism rally the day before decided to torch a editorial office that reprinted the cover.
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Sure it's OK to taunt whomever, but that doesn't mean they should. Being free to do something doesn't make is wise.
If you went back 100 years, you would probably be appalled at what passed for satire and was published in the mainstream media about people of African decent. They were free to publish the images, but it doesn't mean they were on a moral high ground to do it. Similarly during WW2, western papers used to show disparaging satirical cartoons of Japanese people. Sure, most of them depicted Tojo and Japanese soldiers, but the images were no less appalling towards Japanese people in general. I don't see the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as any different. Most people look back at those WW2 images and realize how disgusting they were, and I think one day people will look back at the anti-Muslim and anti-Arab satire popular in France in a similar way.