Brave Or Foolhardy?

[237SJ]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30786211
Personally, I don`t see the point in being deliberately inflammatory.

[ludwig]

Brave.

[RATTER15]

The sooner these disgusting beasts are out of Europe the happier I will be!!

[ToraToraTora]

"brave or foolhardy" - neither, I would say "necessary" to demonstrate that these loonies have only made it worse by their actions. They should do it every edition.

[Slapshot]

Would have expected nothing less... good on them, you will not halt the rights to free speech and opinion

[Retrochic]

I know the terrorists do not need an excuse to act how they do but they will see this as an act of war -a justification for their actions and a green light to do more atrocities. They will not see it as defiance at all. The Right to Free Speech card is misleading. We have no rights to free speech -one can't call a black man a certain word without risk of arrest, can't use a certain word to describe someone from China or Pakistan without moral outrage and 'racist' being thrown at you. jI suggest that if Charlie Hebdo had published a black man with an 'N' word around his neck with some derogatory caption, and that resulted in the same reaction, people would not be so quick to jump on the 'right to say what you like even if it offends' bandwagon. Last year (I think) one staff member got sacked for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon -double standards or what?

[ToraToraTora]

these are not rational people retro. You cannot assign normal behaviour to them. The magazine has no choice but to demonstrate they cannot be cowed by murder.

[Retrochic]

The publication does have a choice. The cartoon they have drawn, in principle, is actually quite clever and although the actual drawing of the Prophet Mohamed will be disrespectful to Muslims and the Terrorists alike, the message is of forgiveness. I have only heard what the English translation will be 'all is forgiven'

[retrocop]

These terrorists declared an act of war on the western civilised world long before any cartoons of the prophet appeared in any European country or have some not noticed?

[Slapshot]

More about people forgetting Retrocop..... this "terrorism" is new terrorism in many eyes it's wrong and Charlie Hedbo are right to symbolically put the two fingers up to terror .... or anything else they feel like

[naomi24]

We might not agree with our laws but we have to abide by them. We are not, however, obliged to abide by the rules that outsiders wish to impose upon us by force.

[anotheoldgit]

Couldn't agree more with Retrochic's 10.32 post, it is true that we do not have the right to free speech in this country.

Regarding whether or not these cartoons should have been published, if it had not been cartoons it would have been books, films, plays, newspaper reports, speech etc, so why should we allow some the right to stop all these type of things or face death or destruction?

[Retrochic]

both Naomi and AOG's posts are indeed thought provoking. It is an almost impossible answer to an insurmountable problem. I think I would not condone inflaming the situation at this moment but retreat , fleetingly, to gather troops so to speak, let them think they have won a battle, but then go in all guns when they are off guard. fHfow to do that is a matter of colloquy