I was thinking about this earlier on. I know it's an old topic but it still remains important. Remember the caricatures of Muhammad? Well, how come it was called freedom of expression? A french comedian once came on stage dressed as a hassidic jew with a swastika on his arm and saying "Heil Hitler!" in reference to the way Palestinians are treated by the Israeli authority in place. Dieudonne, which is his name, got banned from every TV station and pretty much every media. He was slated as an anti-semitic fascist. (he Cameroonian/french...) Just imagine, people, how the world would react if any western newspaper portrayed a jewish person, ANY jewish person, not even the jewish "prophet", with a big nose and some money held in his "claws". Would that be considered freedom of expreesion? NO. Now, how come western newspapers caricaturising Muhammad, the prophet of over 2 million people, is considered freedom of expression then?
2006-11-16
10:29:02
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Oyster
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