As unlikely a pair as Pope Francis and Charlie Hebdo founder have weighed in on the flagrant incitement of believers of a major religion with the intent of causing violence. On his way to the Philippines, the Pope said, “You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.” He also said that if someone insulted his mother, he “could expect a punch” in return.
The founder and former editor of Charlie Hebdo, Henri Roussel, voiced his misgivings about one of his successors as editor, Stephane Charbonnier, among the satirical newspaper’s staff gunned down by two Islamist radicals seeking revenge for the paper’s cartoon portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed. Roussel blamed Charbonnier for needlessly dragging his staff to their deaths, pointing out that the late editor, known as “Charb” played a dangerous “game of one-upmanship” in provoking radical Muslims to act. Roussel said that after the paper’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after it published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed considered by Muslims to be blasphemous.
Roussel criticized the most recent management of Charlie Hebdo. He accused Charbonnier’s predecessor as editor, Philippe Val, of turning the paper into a “Zionist and Islamophobic organ,” especially after Val fired longtime cartoonist Maurice Sine for publishing a cartoon of the marriage of former President Nicolas Sarkozy’ son to a Jewish electronic chain heiress. Val considered that cartoon to be anti-Semitic, but, as Roussel pointed out, the paper’s management had no problem repeatedly mocking and insulting Islam. Roussel pointed out that after “Charb” published an offensive Mohammed cartoon in 2011 and the paper’s offices were firebombed, he proceeded to do the same thing again in 2012. Roussel said Charbonnier “shouldn’t have done it.”
The peak inside the inner workings of Charlie Hebdo is reminiscent of the activities of the neoconservative-influenced and financed protest groups FEMEN, Pussy Riot, and Voina, which have received international publicity over their inciteful and lewd protests at Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian cathedrals, as well as Islamic mosques. There is no record of these protesters committing any actions against Jewish synagogues in any of the countries where they have protested against Christianity and Islam.
These facts certainly point to the actions of Charlie Hebdo, FEMEN, Pussy Riot, and Voina being directed by well-organized and money-flush Zionist interests. The corporate news media have been full of stories on the sale of over five million copies of the “survivors’ edition” of Charlie Hebdo and how French police have been rounding up those who have been charged with inciting “anti-Semitic” speech. At the same time, the Pope, Muslim clerics, and informed observers like Roussel have been slammed hard by the corporate, and largely Zionist-owned media, for their views on what can only be termed as “anti-Gentilic” speech. It certainly appears that the Pope and France’s four top imams had Charlie Hebdo’s actions in mind when they issued a joint statement condemning the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher Jewish market but urging the media to restrain itself from publishing content disrespectful of religious faiths.
The Charlie Hebdo “survivors’ edition” can be downloaded by clicking here. Apparently, the surviving staff saw fit to disregard the wishes of their former editor and founder, the Pope, and France’s four chief imams. After examining this much-heralded issue, it is clear that Charlie Hebdo’s modus operandi is to provide a single stock caricature of a bearded Jewish man in a one cartoon while devoting the remainder of its pages to bashing Islam and Christianity. A single caricature does not constitute a license to incite.
Anti-Christian and Islam “comedian” Bill Maher recently said the following in comparing Christianity and Islam, “one is herpes and one is cancer.” Not everyone in Hollywood thinks Maher is funny and actor Ben Affleck called Maher on his Islamophobia. The Zionists, using their Talmud as their inspirational guide, want to convince the world that it is perfectly okay to mock, ridicule, blaspheme, and incite Muslims and Christians but to utter one word of condemnation of Jewish practices, including the ritual genital mutilation of infant boys, is “anti-Semitic.” Monsieur Roussel, Pope Francis, the French imams, and others, including this website, see the hypocrisy being carried out. President Obama was right to miss out on the navel-gazing “march,” that is, the photo-op, of world leaders in Paris. The only march the world needs is one to expose the hypocrisy of the world’s elites because once again, they have perpetrated a cruel hoax on the civilized people and nations of the world.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
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There are limits to inciteful speech
Posted on January 21, 2015 by Wayne Madsen
As unlikely a pair as Pope Francis and Charlie Hebdo founder have weighed in on the flagrant incitement of believers of a major religion with the intent of causing violence. On his way to the Philippines, the Pope said, “You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.” He also said that if someone insulted his mother, he “could expect a punch” in return.
The founder and former editor of Charlie Hebdo, Henri Roussel, voiced his misgivings about one of his successors as editor, Stephane Charbonnier, among the satirical newspaper’s staff gunned down by two Islamist radicals seeking revenge for the paper’s cartoon portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed. Roussel blamed Charbonnier for needlessly dragging his staff to their deaths, pointing out that the late editor, known as “Charb” played a dangerous “game of one-upmanship” in provoking radical Muslims to act. Roussel said that after the paper’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after it published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed considered by Muslims to be blasphemous.
Roussel criticized the most recent management of Charlie Hebdo. He accused Charbonnier’s predecessor as editor, Philippe Val, of turning the paper into a “Zionist and Islamophobic organ,” especially after Val fired longtime cartoonist Maurice Sine for publishing a cartoon of the marriage of former President Nicolas Sarkozy’ son to a Jewish electronic chain heiress. Val considered that cartoon to be anti-Semitic, but, as Roussel pointed out, the paper’s management had no problem repeatedly mocking and insulting Islam. Roussel pointed out that after “Charb” published an offensive Mohammed cartoon in 2011 and the paper’s offices were firebombed, he proceeded to do the same thing again in 2012. Roussel said Charbonnier “shouldn’t have done it.”
The peak inside the inner workings of Charlie Hebdo is reminiscent of the activities of the neoconservative-influenced and financed protest groups FEMEN, Pussy Riot, and Voina, which have received international publicity over their inciteful and lewd protests at Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian cathedrals, as well as Islamic mosques. There is no record of these protesters committing any actions against Jewish synagogues in any of the countries where they have protested against Christianity and Islam.
These facts certainly point to the actions of Charlie Hebdo, FEMEN, Pussy Riot, and Voina being directed by well-organized and money-flush Zionist interests. The corporate news media have been full of stories on the sale of over five million copies of the “survivors’ edition” of Charlie Hebdo and how French police have been rounding up those who have been charged with inciting “anti-Semitic” speech. At the same time, the Pope, Muslim clerics, and informed observers like Roussel have been slammed hard by the corporate, and largely Zionist-owned media, for their views on what can only be termed as “anti-Gentilic” speech. It certainly appears that the Pope and France’s four top imams had Charlie Hebdo’s actions in mind when they issued a joint statement condemning the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher Jewish market but urging the media to restrain itself from publishing content disrespectful of religious faiths.
The Charlie Hebdo “survivors’ edition” can be downloaded by clicking here. Apparently, the surviving staff saw fit to disregard the wishes of their former editor and founder, the Pope, and France’s four chief imams. After examining this much-heralded issue, it is clear that Charlie Hebdo’s modus operandi is to provide a single stock caricature of a bearded Jewish man in a one cartoon while devoting the remainder of its pages to bashing Islam and Christianity. A single caricature does not constitute a license to incite.
Anti-Christian and Islam “comedian” Bill Maher recently said the following in comparing Christianity and Islam, “one is herpes and one is cancer.” Not everyone in Hollywood thinks Maher is funny and actor Ben Affleck called Maher on his Islamophobia. The Zionists, using their Talmud as their inspirational guide, want to convince the world that it is perfectly okay to mock, ridicule, blaspheme, and incite Muslims and Christians but to utter one word of condemnation of Jewish practices, including the ritual genital mutilation of infant boys, is “anti-Semitic.” Monsieur Roussel, Pope Francis, the French imams, and others, including this website, see the hypocrisy being carried out. President Obama was right to miss out on the navel-gazing “march,” that is, the photo-op, of world leaders in Paris. The only march the world needs is one to expose the hypocrisy of the world’s elites because once again, they have perpetrated a cruel hoax on the civilized people and nations of the world.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).