Negative Space: Mohammed cartoons
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- Ostracized by Cowardly West, Charlie Hebdo Faced the Islamists Alone
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“Reporting on the 2005 Jyllands-Posten affair, the New York Times condemned what it called ‘callous and feeble cartoons, cooked up as a provocation by a conservative newspaper.’ When the Charlie Hebdo offices were firebombed in 2011, Time’s Bruce Crumley blamed the magazine for bringing the attack upon itself. Western politicians were equally obliging to the extremists. In 2012 in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney criticized Charlie Hebdo for publishing its latest cartoons.”
- The Charlie Hebdo Massacre
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“A religion that commands murder as the punishment for blasphemy offends the God it professes to worship. In reality, it worships the Devil. And by such deeds as the half-random murders of innocent people ye shall know that truth.” (Memeorandum thread)
The media relishes its role as intermediary between the plain facts and the interpretation of the facts; they’ve been afraid of losing this position ever since the rise of television.