Aussie wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 4:17pm:


I understand there is a risk that people will respond inappropriately Aussie. Further, to resort to violence (which we are all equally capable of) is to demonstrate a lack of capacity to argue the point.

Whilst that point though is valid, i.e. if I chose to verbally abuse (whether humorously or not) and, in response, someone decides punching me is an apt response, then likewise, that person need not whine when they get smacked back.... Violence begets violence after all. I might not advocate violence as an answer, but do not mistake that as an incapacity to respond. There in lieth the whole problem with addressing commentary and/or pictures with physical force, you just might bump up against someone who can use a bit of force back - then we have a "that escalated quickly" situation... The point in the end gets lost.

So, no I won't complain if someone goes to smack me, I will (hopefully) simply respond/react to minimise the risk to my person.

Life_goes_on wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 2:56pm:


Exactly.ive never heard of Pickering until Herbert here kept referring to him and I reckon most Aussies let alone Aussie Muslims have never heard of Pickering.

Pickering is just cashing in, he doesnt even have the guts to defame islam appropriately. On another note, the hebdo mag looks like selling 8 million copies this month. their circulation was 60,000 last week.

red baron wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 1:32pm:


Lefty nonsense.
People bang on about free speech, yet conveniently forget the necessary and not-so-necessary restrictions that we have place on it.

These Je Suis Charlie f-ckwits quote Voltaire and carry on like France is a bastion of free speech yet in France they jail people for Holocaust denial.

ian wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 3:42pm:


I completely agree.

cods wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 4:37pm:


Getting down to the nitty gritty there.  It is  not so much the cartoon per se, is it.  It is the naked abuse of a mainstream religion going back centuries trying to hide the attack as 'Oh, it's just a cartoon.'  Bullshite!  It is lampooning, putting shite upon, ridiculing, rendering scornful, inciting hatred against a faith.

The more I get into this discussion, the more I reckon I am correct about it.  You can get away with that with some things if you think you have the high moral ground, but when someone says, 'Please don't," and you persist, you get a black eye.  Tough.



*Listen to the sound track.*

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 8:17am:


exactly.  frankly every newspaper in the world should publish these cartoons - once.  Make the point that the more the nutters shoot people the more we will fight back.  and if they do it again, make it a standard front page for a week.

"You deserve what you tolerate" is a maxim of great power.