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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Saying more papers should publish the cartoons is ironically contradictory to free speech and free press.
The media your'e complaining about is also free to not publish what they don't want to publish and you should be supportive of that as well.
It's not about them being afraid or giving in to terrorists, it's about them being free to choose what's appropriate for their own papers and for many these cartoons don't fit that.
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Oh absolutely, and I would never force media outlets to print them, I didn't articulate my point well enough. If you're the editor of a paper and find the cartoons obscene or offensive then absolutely do not print them. But if you do that then don't publish editorial gum-flapping about standing with Hebdo or anything like that, which is what the herald, CBC, and the globe and mail did.
The cartoons I have seen are actually what I believe to be quite clever critiques of fundamentalist Islamists corrupting the peaceful messages of their religion.