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Re: France terror attack is justified by Islam
Reply #75 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:18pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:14pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:48pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:40pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:36pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:29pm:
Quantum wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:25pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:18pm:
Quantum wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:10pm:
... the usual lefty homo's ...




An Islamophobe AND a homophobe.

How delightful.





But it's a valid point. The first people to have their heads cut off by the "religion of peace" will be lefty homos, yet they are the first to ignore every danger Islam offers and continue to pretend that it is genuinely peaceful.


If that ever did happen, I wouldnt have any sympathy ...




Nobody is surprised by that admission.

"Qualities of a Sociopath:

"• Lack of empathy – Inability to feel sympathy for others ... "


http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15850/1/Characteristics-of-a-Sociopath.html



Oh you wouldnt believe how sympathic i can be with lots and lots of people, its just people like you PECCARBRAIN whom i find quite disturbing and beyond just a scum. and YOUR THE ONLY ONE I FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT IN THIS ENTIRE SITE, the rest are ok one way or another with me with a few @******* here and there. BUT NOTHING LIKE YOU.



"Qualities of a Sociopath:

"• Sensitive to criticism – That said, like all narcissists, the sociopath will desire the approval of others and will be highly sensitive to criticisms. They often feel they deserve adulation and admiration of the world and might feel victimized".


Ah. This explains the old boy’s aversion to.any criticism.of Freudianism.or Lutheranism.

No one has the right to not be offended, you know. Except the old boy.



Karnal who ??? am i supposed to take you seriously, what you dont follow and stalk MATTY ANYMORE ?????? what happened, ? falling out Grin Grin Grin

Im sorry i dont take you seriously, i never have, and it looks like from your post there, I NEVER WILL.  Cheesy
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Re: France terror attack is justified by Islam
Reply #76 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:27pm
 
buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 6:58pm:
Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

By Juan Cole
Apr. 17, 2013


[size=12]Here are the top ten ways that Islamic law and tradition forbid terrorism :

1. Terrorism is above all murder. Murder is strictly forbidden in the Qur’an. Qur’an 6:151 says, “and do not kill a soul that God has made sacrosanct, save lawfully.” (i.e. murder is forbidden but the death penalty imposed by the state for a crime is permitted). 5:53 says, “… whoso kills a soul, unless it be for murder or for wreaking corruption in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and he who saves a life, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind.”

2. If the motive for terrorism is religious, it is impermissible in Islamic law. It is forbidden to attempt to impose Islam on other people. The Qur’an says, “There is no compulsion in religion. The right way has become distinct from error.” (-The Cow, 2:256). Note that this verse was revealed in Medina in 622 AD or after and was never abrogated by any other verse of the Quran. Islam’s holy book forbids coercing people into adopting any religion. They have to willingly choose it.

3. Islamic law forbids aggressive warfare.

4. In the Islamic law of war, not just any civil engineer can declare or launch a war.

6. Terrorism or hirabah is forbidden in Islamic law, which groups it with brigandage, highway robbery and extortion rackets– any illicit use of fear and coercion in public spaces for money or power. The principle of forbidding the spreading of terror in the land is based on the Qur’an (Surah al-Ma’ida 5:33–34). Prominent

7. Sneak attacks are forbidden. Muslim commanders must give the enemy fair warning that war is imminent. The Prophet Muhammad at one point gave 4 months notice.



The apologists are out in force, they are mainly brain dead lefties who vote greens.

I guess Juan Cole didn't read the 600 page Qadri fatwa that was supposed to outlaw Islamic terror, if Islamic terror is unislamic why did Qadri need 600 pages for his fatwa.

1.Lets look at what 6/151 says does it differ from Juan Cole BS?-
quran.com/6/151
5/53 says something about becoming losers has your Juan cole even read the Quran?
quran.com/5/53
Does he really mean 5/32, why does he leave out the bit about the children of Israel that verse doesn't apply to muslims.
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We decreed upon the children of Israel that whoever kills a soul
quran.com/5/32


6.Does 5/33 forbid spreading terror i would say it encourages it and could be used to justify this latest attack-
quran.com/5/33

Sneak attacks are forbidden, lmao at this idiot,Muhammad was the master of sneak attacks, this verse will explain his dating methods in gaining Juwairiya as a wife, many in the Islamic state copy his dating methods.
sunnah.com/muslim/32/1

Answer this Buzz and smoked J, if islamic terror is unislamic why did Qadri need a 600 page fatwa to outlaw it?
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Reply #77 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:47pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.


He does give the impression of being happy and care free.
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Re: France terror attack is justified by Islam
Reply #78 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:53pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


I use soap on a rope for communal showers
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Reply #79 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 10:51pm
 
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:18pm:
Karnal wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:14pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:48pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:40pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:36pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:29pm:
Quantum wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:25pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:18pm:
Quantum wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:10pm:
... the usual lefty homo's ...




An Islamophobe AND a homophobe.

How delightful.





But it's a valid point. The first people to have their heads cut off by the "religion of peace" will be lefty homos, yet they are the first to ignore every danger Islam offers and continue to pretend that it is genuinely peaceful.


If that ever did happen, I wouldnt have any sympathy ...




Nobody is surprised by that admission.

"Qualities of a Sociopath:

"• Lack of empathy – Inability to feel sympathy for others ... "


http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15850/1/Characteristics-of-a-Sociopath.html



Oh you wouldnt believe how sympathic i can be with lots and lots of people, its just people like you PECCARBRAIN whom i find quite disturbing and beyond just a scum. and YOUR THE ONLY ONE I FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT IN THIS ENTIRE SITE, the rest are ok one way or another with me with a few @******* here and there. BUT NOTHING LIKE YOU.



"Qualities of a Sociopath:

"• Sensitive to criticism – That said, like all narcissists, the sociopath will desire the approval of others and will be highly sensitive to criticisms. They often feel they deserve adulation and admiration of the world and might feel victimized".


Ah. This explains the old boy’s aversion to.any criticism.of Freudianism.or Lutheranism.

No one has the right to not be offended, you know. Except the old boy.



Karnal who ??? am i supposed to take you seriously, what you dont follow and stalk MATTY ANYMORE ?????? what happened, ? falling out Grin Grin Grin

Im sorry i dont take you seriously, i never have, and it looks like from your post there, I NEVER WILL.  Cheesy


Now now, Stryker, even Jesus takes Lucifer seriously.

The price of Freeedom is eternal vigilance, you know.
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Re: France terror attack is justified by Islam
Reply #80 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 10:53pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


Do you use communal showers, Bobbie?

Ooooh.
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Re: France terror attack is justified by Islam
Reply #81 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 11:24pm
 
buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 6:58pm:
Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

By Juan Cole
Apr. 17, 2013


Here are the top ten ways that Islamic law and tradition forbid terrorism :

1. Terrorism is above all murder. Murder is strictly forbidden in the Qur’an. Qur’an 6:151 says, “and do not kill a soul that God has made sacrosanct, save lawfully.” (i.e. murder is forbidden but the death penalty imposed by the state for a crime is permitted). 5:53 says, “… whoso kills a soul, unless it be for murder or for wreaking corruption in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and he who saves a life, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind.”

2. If the motive for terrorism is religious, it is impermissible in Islamic law. It is forbidden to attempt to impose Islam on other people. The Qur’an says, “There is no compulsion in religion. The right way has become distinct from error.” (-The Cow, 2:256). Note that this verse was revealed in Medina in 622 AD or after and was never abrogated by any other verse of the Quran. Islam’s holy book forbids coercing people into adopting any religion. They have to willingly choose it.

3. Islamic law forbids aggressive warfare. The Quran says, “But if the enemies incline towards peace, do you also incline towards peace. And trust in God! For He is the one who hears and knows all things.” (8:61) The Quran chapter “The Cow,” 2:190, says, “Fight in the way of God against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! God loveth not aggressors.”

4. In the Islamic law of war, not just any civil engineer can declare or launch a war. It is the prerogative of the duly constituted leader of the Muslim community that engages in the war. Nowadays that would be the president or prime minister of the state, as advised by the mufti or national jurisconsult.

5. The killing of innocent non-combatants is forbidden. According to Sunni tradition, ‘Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the first Caliph, gave these instructions to his armies: “I instruct you in ten matters: Do not kill women, children, the old, or the infirm; do not cut down fruit-bearing trees; do not destroy any town . . . ” (Malik’s Muwatta’, “Kitab al-Jihad.”)

6. Terrorism or hirabah is forbidden in Islamic law, which groups it with brigandage, highway robbery and extortion rackets– any illicit use of fear and coercion in public spaces for money or power. The principle of forbidding the spreading of terror in the land is based on the Qur’an (Surah al-Ma’ida 5:33–34). Prominent [pdf] Muslim legal scholar Sherman Jackson writes, “The Spanish Maliki jurist Ibn `Abd al-Barr (d. 464/ 1070)) defines the agent of hiraba as ‘Anyone who disturbs free passage in the streets and renders them unsafe to travel, striving to spread corruption in the land by taking money, killing people or violating what God has made it unlawful to violate is guilty of hirabah . . .”

7. Sneak attacks are forbidden. Muslim commanders must give the enemy fair warning that war is imminent. The Prophet Muhammad at one point gave 4 months notice.

8. The Prophet Muhammad counseled doing good to those who harm you and is said to have commanded, “Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well you will treat them well, and that if they do wrong you will do wrong to them. Instead, accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and not to do wrong (even) if they do evil.” (Al-Tirmidhi)

9. The Qur’an demands of believers that they exercise justice toward people even where they have reason to be angry with them: “And do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness.” [5:8]

10. The Qur’an assures Christians and Jews of paradise if they believe and do good works, and commends Christians as the best friends of Muslims. I wrote elsewhere, “Dangerous falsehoods are being promulgated to the American public. The Quran does not preach violence against Christians.

    Quran 5:69 says (Arberry): “Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans, whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness–their wage waits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.”


http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/islamic-forbids-terrorism.html



so any day now the muzzies will read thee pages and realise they were wrong ?

I don't think so.
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Reply #82 - Jan 8th, 2015 at 11:33pm
 
Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:53pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


I use soap on a rope for communal showers




LOL

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Reply #83 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 5:19am
 
Karnal wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 10:53pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


Do you use communal showers, Bobbie?

Ooooh.



About 15 years ago I used a communal shower at a swimming pool facility
& I noticed that a bloke was looking at me.
I got out of there fast.

I've never been back there.
It was creepy.
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Reply #84 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 9:40am
 
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:09pm:
I am going to dig up some of those cartoons and post them. The 'good' it does is defending freedom of speech.


Quote:
We can defend Charlie Hebdo without endorsing it
By Jeff Sparrow
Updated about an hour agoFri 9 Jan 2015, 6:28am

We should condemn the Paris killers, but that doesn't mean we must circulate the work of Charlie Hebdo. You can uphold their right to safety without endorsing the racialised stereotypes they published, writes Jeff Sparrow.

No one should be killed for drawing a cartoon. Nor for writing an article, or for editing or publishing one.

It doesn't matter whether you live in Paris or Sydney, New York or Baghdad - expressing an opinion shouldn't be a death sentence.

That's all that needs to be said about free speech and the awful murders in France.

Or at least it should be.

But in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it's being argued that, rather than merely condemning the killers, we should, in the name of free speech, republish the magazine's work.

And that's something quite different.

Last July, the Sydney Morning Herald published a cartoon by Glen Le Lievre about the conflict in Palestine. The image showed an elderly man sitting on an armchair using a remote control device to explode bombs in Gaza. The figure, with an exaggeratedly large nose, was wearing a skullcap; his chair was decorated with the Star of David.

Fairfax (correctly, in my view) subsequently apologised for the cartoon: the tropes were, the paper said, uncomfortably close to classical anti-Semitism:

The Herald now appreciates that, in using the Star of David and the kippah in the cartoon, the newspaper invoked an inappropriate element of religion, rather than nationhood, and made a serious error of judgment.
It was wrong to publish the cartoon in its original form.
Had someone subsequently attacked the artist, would that have changed our opinion of the image in question? Would it have been necessary to endorse - or even republish - an anti-Jewish cartoon to defend its creator from harm?

To put it another way, you don't have to like the project of Charlie Hedbo to defend its artists from murder, just as you can uphold media workers' right to safety without endorsing the imagery they produce.

That might seem entirely obvious. But it needs to be said for, if the SMH cartoon was bigoted, so too was much of what Charlie Hebdo published.

Jacob Canfield offers a sample of the magazine's work. Have a look for yourself. It's a gallery of racialised stereotypes: image after image of leering hook-nosed Muslims, with bushy beards and hijabs.

As Canfield says:

These are, by even the most generous assessment, incredibly racist cartoons. Hebdo's goal is to provoke, and these cartoons make it very clear who the white editorial staff was interested in provoking: France's incredibly marginalized, often attacked, Muslim immigrant community.
Once more and again, we can condemn those who kill artists for their art without pretending there's something admirable in xenophobic clichés, particularly given the rising racial tensions across Europe.

Earlier this week, 18,000 people marched in Dresden under the banner of PEGIDA - or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West - demanding a harsh crackdown on immigrants. The group's been dubbed "the pinstripe Nazis", in a country that doesn't use references to National Socialism lightly.

Similar groups are on the rise all across the continent, including in France, where the National Front has reached new levels of popularity, despite a lineage traceable back to old-style Jew-baiting fascism.

Already, the far Right is making political capital from this crime. The circulation of Islamophobic images, even if intended as a gesture of solidarity with the victims, will help normalise a bigotry that's the bread and butter of the National Front and its ilk.

Many of us remember the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when politicians and media pundits stampeded each other into a whole gamut of responses, almost all of which proved to be disastrous.

So right now would be a good time to calm down, to refrain from hashtag politics and kneejerk reactions. What's happened is bad enough. Let's not make matters worse.

Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland literary journal and the author of Killing: Misadventures in Violence. On Twitter, he is @Jeff_Sparrow. View his full profile here.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/sparrow-we-should-support-charlie-hebdo-no...
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Reply #85 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 9:44am
 
Bobby. wrote on Jan 9th, 2015 at 5:19am:
Karnal wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 10:53pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


Do you use communal showers, Bobbie?

Ooooh.



About 15 years ago I used a communal shower at a swimming pool facility




Ah, so that's where it all started.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.


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Reply #86 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 10:48am
 
Bobby. wrote on Jan 9th, 2015 at 5:19am:
Karnal wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 10:53pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:16pm:
stryder wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:10pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 9:00pm:
Greg is gay.



Doesnt matter Bobby, peccarbrain is unlikeable to the extreme with me.



Would you trust him in a communal shower?


Do you use communal showers, Bobbie?

Ooooh.



About 15 years ago I used a communal shower at a swimming pool facility
& I noticed that a bloke was looking at me.
I got out of there fast.

I've never been back there.
It was creepy.


You have led a very sheltered life, haven't you Bobby?   Grin Grin Grin Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #87 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 12:57pm
 
wally1 wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 4:40pm:
Gunmen shoots cop who was on the ground supposedly in the head, head doesnt bleed or splatter


http://www.conspiracyclub.co/2015/01/07/paris-fake-terrorism/


The cop was a muslim he has been named, if they have a funeral for him does that debunk your conspiracyclub?





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Reply #88 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 1:12pm
 
Indeed Baron - and I'm so looking forward to your barrage of rhetorical questions to either smear him or argue how he wasn't a muslim at all.

Whatever it will take to ensure that a muslim doesn't receive any sympathy for this attack.
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Reply #89 - Jan 9th, 2015 at 6:07pm
 
polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9th, 2015 at 9:40am:
freediver wrote on Jan 8th, 2015 at 8:09pm:
I am going to dig up some of those cartoons and post them. The 'good' it does is defending freedom of speech.


Quote:
We can defend Charlie Hebdo without endorsing it
By Jeff Sparrow
Updated about an hour agoFri 9 Jan 2015, 6:28am

We should condemn the Paris killers, but that doesn't mean we must circulate the work of Charlie Hebdo. You can uphold their right to safety without endorsing the racialised stereotypes they published, writes Jeff Sparrow.

No one should be killed for drawing a cartoon. Nor for writing an article, or for editing or publishing one.

It doesn't matter whether you live in Paris or Sydney, New York or Baghdad - expressing an opinion shouldn't be a death sentence.

That's all that needs to be said about free speech and the awful murders in France.

Or at least it should be.

But in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it's being argued that, rather than merely condemning the killers, we should, in the name of free speech, republish the magazine's work.

And that's something quite different.

Last July, the Sydney Morning Herald published a cartoon by Glen Le Lievre about the conflict in Palestine. The image showed an elderly man sitting on an armchair using a remote control device to explode bombs in Gaza. The figure, with an exaggeratedly large nose, was wearing a skullcap; his chair was decorated with the Star of David.

Fairfax (correctly, in my view) subsequently apologised for the cartoon: the tropes were, the paper said, uncomfortably close to classical anti-Semitism:

The Herald now appreciates that, in using the Star of David and the kippah in the cartoon, the newspaper invoked an inappropriate element of religion, rather than nationhood, and made a serious error of judgment.
It was wrong to publish the cartoon in its original form.
Had someone subsequently attacked the artist, would that have changed our opinion of the image in question? Would it have been necessary to endorse - or even republish - an anti-Jewish cartoon to defend its creator from harm?

To put it another way, you don't have to like the project of Charlie Hedbo to defend its artists from murder, just as you can uphold media workers' right to safety without endorsing the imagery they produce.

That might seem entirely obvious. But it needs to be said for, if the SMH cartoon was bigoted, so too was much of what Charlie Hebdo published.

Jacob Canfield offers a sample of the magazine's work. Have a look for yourself. It's a gallery of racialised stereotypes: image after image of leering hook-nosed Muslims, with bushy beards and hijabs.

As Canfield says:

These are, by even the most generous assessment, incredibly racist cartoons. Hebdo's goal is to provoke, and these cartoons make it very clear who the white editorial staff was interested in provoking: France's incredibly marginalized, often attacked, Muslim immigrant community.
Once more and again, we can condemn those who kill artists for their art without pretending there's something admirable in xenophobic clichés, particularly given the rising racial tensions across Europe.

Earlier this week, 18,000 people marched in Dresden under the banner of PEGIDA - or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West - demanding a harsh crackdown on immigrants. The group's been dubbed "the pinstripe Nazis", in a country that doesn't use references to National Socialism lightly.

Similar groups are on the rise all across the continent, including in France, where the National Front has reached new levels of popularity, despite a lineage traceable back to old-style Jew-baiting fascism.

Already, the far Right is making political capital from this crime. The circulation of Islamophobic images, even if intended as a gesture of solidarity with the victims, will help normalise a bigotry that's the bread and butter of the National Front and its ilk.

Many of us remember the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when politicians and media pundits stampeded each other into a whole gamut of responses, almost all of which proved to be disastrous.

So right now would be a good time to calm down, to refrain from hashtag politics and kneejerk reactions. What's happened is bad enough. Let's not make matters worse.

Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland literary journal and the author of Killing: Misadventures in Violence. On Twitter, he is @Jeff_Sparrow. View his full profile here.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-09/sparrow-we-should-support-charlie-hebdo-no...


The cartoons I have seen do not look racist to me, any more than a comical depiction of Jesus is racist. People are becoming genuinely afraid to publish this sort of thing, so it is necessary to actually publish it, to show your solidarity in more than a limp wristed, tokenistic gesture, and to drive home the point to the nutjobs that these sorts of attacks backfire.
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