It’s not just ISIS that has threatened artists. Blasphemy is a legal charge that Arab cartoonists have been deflecting for years.
George Clooney might take out a Charlie Hebdo subscription, so all the women in our office would have his address.
Humour is the one thing all powerful and bigoted people are afraid of. Because they don’t and can’t understand it.
OK, I’m the Cowardly Cartoonist… As a Cowardly Cartoonist, I can’t make some glib comment like that, you know? I have to, like, make fun of myself. So […]
It is true that some Muslims took offence at some of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons. Imams wrote in criticism of them. But the same Imams were on TV after […]
Most white people don’t like to admit it, but those cartoons upheld their prejudice, their racism, their political supremacy, and cut it how you will–images like that upheld […]
Was Charlie Hebdo, the satirical publication whose staffers were murdered by Islamic extremists in Paris, always the fairest and most responsible newspaper in the world? Of course not. […]
Je Suis Charlie. It’s a phrase in every newspaper, in every Twitter feed, on demonstrations in cities across Europe. The expressions of solidarity with those slain in the […]
How fragile the belief of a Muslim must be if he feels threatened by a stupid caricature in a weekly satirical newspaper?
It is possible to defend the right to obscene and racist speech without promoting or sponsoring the content of that speech. It is possible to approve of sacrilege […]
If you’re the paper of record, if you’re the highest exemplar of American journalism, if you expect others to stand by your journalists when they are threatened, if […]
When religion overlaps with social and political issues, it’s necessary to fight back, so Charlie is equally hard on Jews including anti-semitic caricatures and quotes when talking about […]
I feel compelled – sometimes pressured – to tweet stories of the religious identity of the officer who died saving the lives of journalists in France. Why? Why […]