{"id":6646,"date":"2015-07-30T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2015-07-24T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:53:17","slug":"charlie-hebdo-follow-up-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6646","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hebdo Follow-up; Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJe Suis Charlie!\u201d That was the hashtag activism that came out of the Islamic extremist attack on the offices of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, in response to their cartoons of Mohammed. It was the most French many of us had ever spoken, defending a satire magazine that most of us had never heard of prior to that. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like it when cartoonists mock Jesus, but in America the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, and so they are allowed to. In France, this same idea was behind the Je Suis Charlie movement. We will not be intimidated by extremists.<\/p>\n

Right up until we are.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, the Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief, whose name is in the article in the show notes and which I will not attempt in case I butcher it, waved the white flag of surrender and said that the magazine would no longer draw cartoons of Mohammed. A dozen of his colleagues died for, and the world erupted in support of, their right to mock. All that was for naught. Violence prevailed. The terrorists won.<\/p>\n

To be sure, you can understand their concern. Who wants to poke that particular hornet\u2019s nest again? Why put yourself in that literal line of fire? But his reasoning seemed to be strained. He claimed, \u201cThe mistakes you could blame Islam for can be found in other religions.\u201d Perhaps, although the offices were not shot up by enraged Evangelicals, cantankerous Catholics, agitated Jews, or belligerent Buddhists. In fact, the terrorism perpetrated worldwide has predominantly come from one particular religion, but it\u2019s not politically correct to notice that. Oh, and interestingly, no word from Charlie Hebdo about no longer drawing cartoons mocking Jesus. They know perfectly well that the Christian response will most likely be a strongly-worded letter. #ReligionOfPeace<\/p>\n

So just in case you were wondering whatever happened to all that solidarity and righteous indignation spent in the service of free speech, that\u2019s<\/i> what happened. The French surrendered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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