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Did you read the article? Or any articles or writings on Islamaphobia? If you want to start, I would highly recommend Edward Said's Orientalism, as it has a great description of why the idea of "racism" in that context doesn't make sense. The point is that when Charlie Hebdo draws "muslims"...

having just written that, I've found a really good explanation of the point I am trying to make. So without any chance for me to screw it up, I'll post it for others enjoyment.

That's completely fair enough, I agree that satire has to bite or it is meaningless. My only question is whether this "satire" done by CH is about making fun of extremists (a very positive thing), or about making left wing French atheists feel more comfortable dismissing Muslims as "irrational"...

IF that is what is interpreted from my posts, then obviously I have miss-stepped and I apologize. It appears I am also biased, or at least unable to state what I mean without ambiguity.

All those other people aren't minorities who face actual persecution and hatred. If as a result of a cartoon, three Catholics had attacked Hebdo then I would be arguing the exact same for Catholicism that I am doing for Islam. There isn't wide spread distrust of Catholics (actually that is...

I have seen their work on many subjects and I still believe that they are racist. They are not portraying Muslims as a religion, but as an ethnic group, as you can clearly see by the visual shorthand they employ for "Muslim" (Hook noses, beady eyes, headscarf, beard/facial hair) pretty much...

Oh really, that's the point is it? So we should all insult Islam, because 3 Muslims decided to attack some cartoonists. How progressive! Tell me, what did Islam in general do to earn this ire? Because what you've said is that these three people have done something wrong, not the entire religion...

I have seen their work on many subjects and I still believe that they are racist. They are not portraying Muslims as a religion, but as an ethnic group, as you can clearly see by the visual shorthand they employ for "Muslim" (Hook noses, beady eyes, headscarf, beard/facial hair) pretty much...

I wasn't aware that he posted that to twitter, but that does make sense and good on him for doing so. I wasn't trying to presume that everyone here, especially not Grey and Cory who did the strip, was ignorant or lacking information about what Charlie Hebdo does, I was just trying to add another...

http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2015/01/in-the-wake-of-charlie-hebdo-free-speech-does-not-mean-freedom-from-criticism/ Before everyone jumps on the ol' bandwagon, I highly recommend reading some of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons and their general attitude towards Islam in general, both of which...

I'm sorry but I can't help but disagree with that view. 100 years ago intellectualism was pushing towards a pretentious denial of our animalistic nature, furthered by the main philosophers of the time, and a view that humans were "better" than animals, thus not only capable of, but obliged to, a...

I'm afraid I have to disagree slightly with you're point. That darkness isn't "unnatural", instead it is actually far more natural than this charade of human decency that we tend to refer to as our "normal state". It is important to remember that we are animals, more so under alcohol, nice...

I believe I was trying to question the people who type on here about the injustice, and how something must be done, without considering any practical applications. I guess as you say the real question (not the ones that I proposed, those are silly) is how exactly could this be prevented? Sadly...

This is the mainline problem with people's assessment of situations similar to this. Without wishing to single you out you are, in effect, not allowing for any possible scope of exaggeration, mis-remberence, forgetfulness, traumatic memory altering (real, imagined or exaggerated) and of course...