Tza: Good Lord...
Are these guys some sort of alternate KKK ?
#whitelivesmatter ?? A nation shocked by radicalists murderers = white people crying for white people ? What the hell ?!
French citizens have been killed by extremists for their opinion, their status and/or their religion and that freaking neo-racist supports that horrendous tweeter discussion ?
all forms of governing are flawed, all political visions are flawed, each and every religion has minor/mayor flaws
Pointing out, exaggerating and ridiculing those flaws is an important part of western culture. In medieval times, the jester was the only one allowed to point out the misruling of the king if he packed it into a joke.
Then came the Age of Enlightenment, after which everyone could be a jester. Today, cartoonists are the modern jesters, pointing out what is wrong with society in the form of jokes.
someone pointed out to me "you can make insulting jokes about Christianity, you can ridicule Jesus, you can joke about Jews (as long as you keep WWII out of it, they can take it just fine). make jokes about the socialistic, liberal and right-winged party in your country. You can joke about anything and at worst you'll get a few angry tweets.
But joke about the Islam, and you put your life on the line."
In my life I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of cartoons ridiculing Jesus, yet only a few about Mohammed. Why? most cartoons fear the retaliation should they draw one. C.H. stood against this fear. They believed everyone deserves to be ridiculed just as much. The jihadis could not tolerate this ideal.
And who is hurt the most here? Its the Muslims. because many of them know their culture will not be seen as equal or normal until we can joke about it to an even degree of how much we joke with our own culture.
I can't imagine anyone ever making something like the life of Brian, but with Mohammed. No filmmaker would ever want to take that risk