The level of bravery displayed by the French continues to amuse.

Quite true, despite the historical suggestion that the colour of the French battle flag was white !

Great. People cash in on cheap shots at another people’s religion. And the rest of the world has to pay with;
(a) Random Deaths
(b) The reversal of foreign policies/wars costing billions.
(c) Inability to go safely on holiday.
(d) Persecution of foreign/all Christians.
etc…
Just how wickedly selfish can some people be ?

If; on the other hand, this is all a build-up/pretext to a suspected/known initiative in order to recall foreign nationals, then it’s sure one hell of a way to go about it…

Phuckabunchamuslims.

Lol yeah sure as the french war flag is white.. and world history starts and finishs with America, no wars fought before or since by anybody else.

And sure in France as in USA the government controls all press publications… not

As usual American culture 0 outside world 1

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Our principle of Freedom of Speech should be vindicated and reinforced by not using that freedom to shout ‘FIRE!’ in a crowded theatre. The cartoons patently fail in this respect. Publishing such content now, shows the same level of ignorance as those who will endanger and take lives rioting in response. ‘The riot is the voice of the unheard,’ so no suprise if people who feel they weren’t heard after the Danish cartoons do run riot. Both parties will have blood on their hands come Friday. Disgraceful.

Small translation problem for the cartoon captions: ‘embrase’ means to set fire to, ablaze, not embarrass. Otherwise, to continue the metaphor, I agree with Ade, and L Fabius, throwing more fuel on the muslim bonfire of indignation isn’t justified.

Are we running out of ideas to emphasize the “precious freedom of speech” with.

I always considered the French pansies but you have proved this idea wrong to the entire world. If only we had such bravery returned to the U.S. Keep up the good work

People should remember it is the individuals in the mob doing the violence; not the authors of this questionable parody.
Should the western world go on a violent rampage because of the insulting placards held up by the protesters?

Becareful !!

I am Coming as soon as possible !!
this Extravagance make me indignant,
If I do … All the creation do.

As a leftist I cannot but ask this question: Is the response by muslims reasonable? No it is not. And until the world makes it clear to all the world that free speech of all stripes must be tolerated (and this is no kind of yelling “fire”) I say we have to continue with praise, criticism, mockery, satire, and all other types of speech toward all religions, political leanings, and anything considered sacred. Will people be hurt and die? Undoubtedly, but we cannot give in to fanatics. I personally find the cartoons amateurish and silly, but I find the response by muslims enraging, and it continues to reduce my sympathies for such zealots. Some tried to equate making fun of mohammed with the holocaust, a comparison which is ridiculous. I am not jewish, but such a comparison only continues to declare this nothing more than muslim fascism.

ha ha ha stop..the laughing hurts too much.

im a muslim i think its stupid and disrespectful

the french n da usa cud both fuck themselves they have nothing better to do fucking every war argument debates always down to religion n ppl have just bin hatin on muslims now and before centuries ago. I think dis shit shud just end, there is no peace on earth somehow people jus want blood well whoever joins will be in the crossfire

im an atheist i think islam is stupid and disrespectful

takepoliticalphilospohy101>.< !#

On one hand, it is bit like shouting fire in a crowded theatre, because the precedent of violence over the depiction of Muhammad has been set. If you do these types of things, you cannot claim innocence of the possibility that your actions will result in a violent backlash.

On the other hand, fuck those assholes. We’ll respect your culture and religion when you respect ours, and killing ambassadors over a film by some shmo in California is flat out unacceptable. It’s called freedom of speech, and if it’s tough for you to figure out, then at least stop and consider that the old guy with the beard who showed it to you probably knew what your reaction would be, so stop being a useful idiot to the puppet masters and grow a brain.

As-Salamu Alaykum. Peace be with all right thinking individuals in this world, and that excludes the filmmakers, cartooninsts, editors and rioters.

Death to all religious monkeys.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to publish totally unfunny cartoons about crackpot religious loons. Even that’s worth defending. But it would have been a lot easier if they’d found themselves a cartoonist with something approaching an intelligent sense of humour.

WHAT KIND OF RELIGION DID FRANCE AND AMERICA HAVE? WHERE THEY GIVE FULL TORELANCE FOR THOSE WHO INSULTING ANOTHER RELIGIOUS SOCIETY???? DID FUCKING YESUS TOLD THEM TO DID THAT???

WELL JANI, I THINK YOU THE ONE WHO HAS MORON BRAIN… HOW COME YOU BECOME ATHEIS??? IT IS INDICATED THAT SINCE YOUR BRAIN STOP WORKING AND UN-ABLE TO THINK….

I’LL speak with my origin language,bagi pembuat kartun Rasul kami dan kamu bangga akan itu. kami hanya berdoa agar ALLAH SWT memberikan Hidayah untuk mu dan keluargamu serta kalian di jauhkan dari azab neraka.kalian bisa tertawa di dunia ini tetapi coba tertawa di padang masyhar nanti…..amin.

What a bunch of retards these muslims!

All humans are not born equal: some are born without brain…lets hope they will set their own country in fire.

It’s a shallow, uninformed and politically naive position to take that the global protests are simply due to an amateurishly constructed and quite deliberately boorish and therefore offensive film. The film for many is simply the last straw. The muslim world has good leaders and bad; brilliant minds and dullards, like any other region of whatever culture, skin color or religion—but that said, it’s clear to anyone who knows the history of the middle east, for example, that European leaders have ever meddled viciously and exploitively in the region—to the point of destabilizing or at least preventing stability in a variety of nations—nations which were constructed with strictly European or US interests to begin with—in a high-handed and rude manner, not much different from the treatment which whites handed the Native-indigeous peoples of what is now Canada, the US, and eventually Latin America—and including Alaska, Hawaii and the Philipines. Much of US white protestant nationalist pride has had to do with the colonialist era monopoly of powerful technology of war, which now many other previously colonized countries are acquring. Here in the US many new arrivals are genuinly grateful for citizenship, but naively fall for the US fairy tale of a democracy which has actually been disappearing—the rich, powerful and corrupt; the banks, lending companies and corporados have been steadily eroding that US democracy for many years, to the point of enormous theft and pillaging which has had dire global effect—and the old song and dance is not working, even on whites. Witness now the Occupy Movement which postulates keeping it’s distance from the old corrupt politics—while the corrupt system tries to ignore it; infiltrate it, mislead it, stigmatize it, co-opt it, and destroy it simultaneously. Sound famiiliar? And Occupy are our own white kids, no less, so what can people of color of other nations expect? With these givens; with this track record, they know the answer very well, and it shows, globally, in the protests. It hardly hurts to point out that the same Native-indigenous peoples of Canada, the US and Mexico, and including Latin America have suffered grievously from the colonialist-origined and very much right now continuing destruction of our cultures, and religions, deprival of education, the theft of our lands, including sacred regions, destruction of our deserts and forests, and the pollution or theft of our life-giving water. Native People in the US military get a special and very cynical “You are known great warrios” BS peptalk in Basic Training, to encourage bravery in battle, (as though we needed whitey to tell us), while in the battle-field white officers insensitively and tellingly make reference to dangerous “Indian Country”, of all things. The US did not win control here on the battle field, it’s history lies, they killed Native people or starved us with burocracy. People of the world, take note of the lies and corruption of the fascistic US government—and keep in mind that nazi German totalitarianism of the thirties and forties was aided and supported in it’s horrible and murderous trajectory by the Eugenics Movement’s white-racial dominance “Racial Hygiene” programs which were first used here in the “good old” USA, on blacks, Native Americans, Mexicans, poor whites, the handicapped, and elderly, and for which the state of California was it’s base. Resist!

First off, if you decide to respond in English please make sure you are grammatically correct.
Secondly, I commend the French for putting their foot down in support of free speech. The Western World doesn’t see a problem with depictions of Mohammed. If you don’t like it, don’t read our newspapers or come to our countries. It’s actually very simple, stay in your own country where Sharia law protects you and your own backward values.

don’t always blame muslims for all they did…their anger is caused by something that really harassing what they totaly believe and respect….what if the same case happen to ur religion,the muslims insult ur God,won’t u be angry also,will u?...and for the atheists,u know nothing about God so don’t try to provoke certain religion to hate another religion….
don’t be too eazy to be provocated by certain people who want us to make war,they don’t have responsabilities…
if u can’t make them calm down,at least don’t start the war by ur mouth…

Muhammed was a murderer, rapist and thief and encouraged others to do the same.
That is historical fact and Muslims can’t hide from that.
His is venerated by Muslims all around the world as the “perfect Muslim” to be copied and emulated.
is it any would most violence is committed by Islam against others?
Notwithstanding that, Today, He would be charged with peadophilia and genocide too.

for Garry and Jupli..totalu agree with u guys…

müslümanlar senin karini siker sende bakarsin nasil sikiyorlar orosbu cocugu götün kasiniyorsa git köprü altinda sikdir kendini

I think it is commendable that these guys have the balls to make a stand against the bigoted and small minded view of extremist Islam. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism, Satanism. Each and every one of these theological views are expressed with tolerance for the views of others yet as soon as an utterance is made against Islam, the world cowers in fear. Defend free speech at all cost, otherwise the price we could pay could ultimately be our freedom. By censoring ourselves to appease a few madman, we are showing fear and weakness.

Dear friends and all readers,
May peace be upon all,
It ia a known fact that Prophet Muhammed Fought various battles, But before that he always tried to avoid such conflicts and battles to maximum possible. When he went to the Taif, the residents behaved badly and GOD sent his prophet Gabriel to Muhammad. Gabriel asked MUHAMMED IF he to crush the residents of TAIF between the mountains, but MUHAMMED forgave them. Similarly in all battles with non muslims, MUHAMMED ordered his soldiers that:
NO one will harm any women, child or old age Citizen.
No one will be allowed to cut any Fruit bearing TREE.
NO one will be allowed to burn any food gain storage or any Crop.
Any one who is young but surrenders will be treated kindly.
and Anyone who takes refuge in the Church or worshipping places will not be harmed.
It is also a Known fact that Muhammed Never TOOK revenge from people. He was called by the name of SADIQ and AMEEN meaning “a man who always speaks truth and keeps the trust of people”
I feel we all must come beyond the hatred lines and should learn to first read the history and then come to some conclusion.
Also it is important to respect the prophets as all prophets were chosen BY GOD and not by people.
May GOD give us knowledge to understand all with wisdom (AMEN)

please read ANGEL GABRIEL

We, in the third world0 have always sought to learn freedom from you people of the West as you have achieved freedom far away before us. I have a question for you French people :” Do you think that freedom of speech means insulting others ? if your answer is “Yes”. then i would feel that we have wasted a lot of our time trying to learn freedom from you.

I am a Muslim holy book, the Quran has praised the entire Jewish prophets. Human beings have no sacrilege to let the others do not. Hazrat Muhammad is the last Messenger of Peace Wind Vkhandansh On him God the God of Moses and Jesus to lead the way for the continuation of humanity is an insult to all the previous messengers he is an insult to all the Saints. prophets are our spiritual fathers. You’re free to insult his mother and father. Dear Editor If someone takes you to the parents and other sacred Asthza should not bother you? I authorize the release of Vbnd the prophets and you were born. What does insult your Gnndh captive free. Dear Editor If you go inside you can see the remains of the Pzyshan and even so you can not release the rest of the offense to be cardiopulmonary monitoring. Be sure to lift the spirit of Muhammad to lead the prayer, it is like you are compassionate.

everyone is speaking about freedom of speech and freedom of thought.do these cartoons really reflect any speech or any thought?? if i draw your mother naked and put a silly comment about her buttocks, would that be considered freedom of thought?! Fact:Muslims respect Muhammad more than their mothers and fathers. Fact:the west respects freedom of speech more than religions. Fact: Islam (not current Muslims) encourages freedom of though and speech more than anything else , but with limits. (As long as it doesnt violate the right of someone else. i believe the core of the matter here is agree on definitions and to respect the others cultures and untouchables. Muslims should respect the west’s untouchable freedom of speech. and the west should respect the untouchable prophet of islam. respect doesnt mean not to condemn or to question, but it simply means respect. if the west wants to question of Muhammad was a killer or not, they have all the right to do so objectively, but not by drawing a buttock as this shows how superficial they are and how greedy to increase their sales and increase the hatred in the world!

I have worked at Charlie Hebdo for 2 years (in Paris) and did some jobs as a free lance for them after that. But, this is not why they have all my support and agreement about their decision to brave the crazy idiots.

In front of a fascist minority threat, there are 2 positions: – Respect their demands to “keep peace” (as it is…), which is showing weakness and do exactly what they want us to do. – Go the other way all together, and have a united front against barbarism. That is, show that our freedom is not negotiable. Spreading and multiplying jokes, drawings, etc…

Looking the other way, accepting the conditions of a violent minority over the freedom of speech of Humanity is merely stupid and coward.
Had some respect for all those who have fight, been tortured or died for your freedom, this freedom that you take for granted.

I’ve seen on the news one of these “moderate politicians” trying to “please the number” (as usual)... He was questioning the freedom of speech and the “right to offend”... This is BULLSHIT
Radical Muslims offend me and kill people every day with their stupid values, and in fact, they offend the entire Humanity for a long time.
They never respected OUR SACRED VALUES (like peace, freedom of speech, or women and children, ...), and they ask for us to respect theirs or they’ll get EVEN MORE violent???
What kind of deal is that?

In front of a fascist threat, you can think about accepting their conditions… Sorry, I can´t coop with that, and think that we have to show full solidarity with whom is ready to fight for our freedom of speech. Spreading Mohammad caricatures is the best way to show to this fascists bastards that we don’t accept their threats.

PS: A few last words for the corporates (YouTube, FaceBook, Google and other…) which decided to protect their business by censuring the “resistants”. Disgusting.

Some religious fascists consider a joke as a provocation and they kill innocent people for that?
How do they call call a woman being stoned to death for adultery? How do they qualify female genital mutilation on children? Are these good reasons for me to get violent?!... Maybe I should. But I think that’s behaving like a stupid moron.
Defending religious violence is unacceptable.

it seems to me that muslims are directed by their religion not to look into the life of the prophet objectively but just claim he was “most perfect” “the last prophet for eternity” etc. i am not a researcher but it seems to me that till his first wife Khadija was alive he was monogamous and then went beserk after she died.is it a fact.

People don’t be stupid. We can have a look at the history and understand the facts relating to prophet muhammad (SAW). Just do some research and come to reality (no need to believe in others while u r equiped with a good brain). its 2012 not the medieval ages

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I’m muslim and I respect all the opinions even the cartoons. Also I’m gay. And enjoy the anal sex. But I dont feel comfortable in the arab lands for this reason I’m traveling around the world theaching the freedom in the growing arab gay community: so if you’re gay join us, if you are muslim get out of the closet and join us. Bless

Nice Cartoons :)
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this ganna cause the war, frog eaters . sorry about the expression but i am free to express too, you remember how many muslims from north africa who did sacrifice their lives to save yours , and now after all that,s how you recompense the hand that made a lot for you ! thanks again for being a principle reason of innocence death.

great cartoons! don’t let you get down by those islamfaschists!

not very good cartoons..
but very good that cartoonists are not afraid to make a joke..
i do not think that they are attacking muslims or anyone else.. just like all satyre .. asking interesting questions and anyone on any genuinely spiritual path would have the courage to consider..
of course we are long over due for similar quirky questions about the death of six million jews and how they died by virtue of everyone concerned mindlessly following orders..
or the how about the first jew to be crucified by the christians ending up as their god..
laughter is the only sane answer..

have you ever seen any muslim make fun with your religion

Naim: Not Christianity, but Hindus (Will burn in Hell) and Jews (Hitler dodn’t kill enough). Actual quotes.

Millions of filthy savages believe Gabriel (Satan in fact) ordered the murder cult to conquer the rest of us. The pacific terms Muhammad offered were: convert or die.

They commit mass murder for questioning their execrable superstitions.

This is not a small minority. It’s millions of heathens controlled by lying fiends that teach lies about us to motivate the numb skulls to kill us.

“Freedom for ourselves and freedom for our sons
And, failing freedom, War.” Kipling

How can we non-muslims can trust muslims if they are allowed to lie to us by the religion?
I highly recommand to watch of this video… You’ll be çore aware of what’s going on…
http://vimeo.com/19598947

in muslim world i akcept orders of muslims,i cann not pray on the stret or drink a beer in luxor in egypt when they hawe a ramadan or somthing like this
but i akcept this is a muslim state

to al of mislim
this is europe and her is alaud to speak,womens hawe place in our socaiety,and gay people we dont kil…..
and we dont make protest on the stret or destroing the embasys of muslim countriys becous you punished the womens or kiling people only becous they are gay !!
PLEAS STAY AWAY OF US,OF EUROPE,THIS IS OUR REIGHT AND WE ARE FREE HER

Gimmie a break – muslims spontaneously rioted over the movie trailer – NOT. On several clips, I’ve seen clergy clearly encouraging the rioters, raising their arms and helping to whip the rioters up into a frenzy. The evil – yes EVIL - clergy that brainwash these kids from day1 are the true instigators, it’s a planned operation and it doesn’t scare us in the least. Bring it. We’re NOT backing down (although our fearful US leader might)

well, i think it’s coming from a place where tolerance has met intolerance of those we are expected to be continually tolerant of….... in the end, i see violence against every major religion, i see continual abuse of attempts of peaceful negotiations, i see violence being used indiscriminately against innocent people, i see liberties and ignorance promoted over the welfare of fellow countryman…........ if you want to be taken seriously, maybe try something different. Like be peaceful and lead? I’m not condoning the cartoon, but you can not control the thoughts, hearts and minds of everyone else on the planet.

what use spilling blood, it will grow not a thing Robert Hunter

how many times the context in the bible keep changing since the medieval time where else quran still intact

sorry to say but its the fact..

freedom speech my ass!!

The only good moslem I ever saw was dead.

Provocation and blasphemy as political tools to bring around an unsavory agenda at the cost of lives.

Freedom of speech or not, this is about rabble rousing. The “cartoons” are indecent by any standards. What would be the result if this fool of a headline grabbing “artist” did the same with Jesus or a prominent rabbi, say Rebbe Schneerson?

Nor is this about that ridiculous short film that was created for the same purpose…. division and unrest.

As for you atheists out there, who cares if you don’t believe and have judgment to pass? What is… is… and people DO believe and that is our reality today. Being atheist makes you no better or worse than believers and does not negate their position.

In the meantime, France continues along on its Zionist loving warmongering fashion….

World wars aren’t declared, they escalate from relatively small incidents, maybe something some idiot somewhere thought was funny…

Can somebody please tell me what the point to such acts is? As an atheist myself, I am concerned about the extreme acts that a few are prepared to commit to ‘defend’ their faith against against perceived attacks but, I have Never personally, got off on ridiculling the faith of others. What is the point of this type of purile ridicule other than to provoke violent reaction? Perhaps we should offer up the perpetrators so that can directly face the ire of those they have so offended! Could the so-called ‘Christian’ right in France and America have a role in this? Perhaps some obcene cartoons of Jesus commiting debase acts might balance the books!

I leave a comment when I like a post on a site
or if I have something to contribute to the conversation.

It is caused by the fire displayed in the post I read. And on this article Never Yet Melted France Closes 20 Embassies After French Satire Magazine Again Publishes Mohammed Cartoons.
I was excited enough to post a commenta response ;-) I actually do
have 2 questions for you if you don’t mind. Could it be simply me or do some of these remarks come across like they are coming from brain dead visitors? :-P And, if you are posting at additional online social sites, I would like to follow anything new you have to post. Could you make a list the complete urls of your communal pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?