Joe Sacco: On Satire – a response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks

[Ahmad1996]

The world is paying for the sins of Osama Bin Laden

He started this fire in 2001
Since then it has only been a cycle of revenge



Sir Why do you always assume a NEW member to be young in age
and unaware of global geopolitics

OBL was just the start of a terrorist organization too bad that when it fighting USSR no Western authorities or even our authorities thought how would we close it down, at that time they were called freedom fighters lol, while most of them had their country. I'm more sad at the fact that when this happened in Peshawar and our public wanted terrorists to be hanged EU condemned the hanging and wanted it to be stopped this is why most of the Pakistani public is still mad at you and doesn't wants to condemn this incident as otherwise the cartoon was on ISIS a terror outfit that for a long time has been declared as enemy to Pakistan by the public.

 

[Developereo]

Isn't france a country like germany and Britain where you cannot challenge the holocaust----.

I would be interested to see if Charlie Hebdo questioned any aspect of the Holocaust, or mocked the French laws against free speech in that context.

Of course, the clueless will blabber about Holocaust being a fact, but that misses the whole point. Facts, more than religious beliefs, should be able to sustain any assault.

People talking about murder are also missing the point. Of course the murders were wrong, as are any extrajudicial executions. The topic here is to highlight the European hypocrisy on the subject of freedom of speech.

 

[Dubious]

I hope Sacco realizes that firing someone is not the same as killing someone. And there is something deeply wrong with a person who uses physical violence against people who offend him.

bombing Libya from the air and helping the same breed of al qaeda rats on the ground that were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

The roots of the modern conflict probably lie in the 1953 coup and installing the shah in Iran, and it's been all downhill since.

Shall we put the same question to who armed these people? Weapons dont grow on trees...

2ndly, firing someone is inciting hate....killing someone incites hate towards a group of people...

What I see is a pattern ....The extremists are given weapons to cause hatred towards Muslims...They may call themselves Muslims but when you dont know what you are talking about ONLY then will you call them Muslims...Coz Muslim in Arabic is a verb ONE WHO SUBMITS to the will of ALLAH...now one who kills isnt submitting so is far from Muslim...yet when he kills it is ONLY MUSLIMS who suffer...

We Muslims codemn killings we equally codemn hypocrisy
We also codemn this underground hatred network against Muslims
We also codemn the repeated assults on our lands, on our people (Afghanistan, Iraq, A whole bunch of African countries)

Now take this scenario and give it a good thought:

You see your village being attacked, You see your whole family being destroyed right in front of you...Someone says well hello there you can take revenge for this....You are only 18/ 20/ 25 ....Now be honest, will you not take the gun? Revenge for the deaths of your family, relatives, friends...

Had America not thrown its weight around, ASSHOLES known as extremists wouldnt have a pool of dead souls to recruit from!

Can you join the dots?

OBL was just the start of a terrorist organization too bad that when it fighting USSR no Western authorities or even our authorities thought how would we close it down, at that time they were called freedom fighters lol, while most of them had their country. I'm more sad at the fact that when this happened in Peshawar and our public wanted terrorists to be hanged EU condemned the hanging and wanted it to be stopped this is why most of the Pakistani public is still mad at you and doesn't wants to condemn this incident as otherwise the cartoon was on ISIS a terror outfit that for a long time has been declared as enemy to Pakistan by the public.

Cold war was just what it was cold!

Results of cold war accelerated quickly and all spread to MUSLIM nations....at that time America was soooo wanting to win against USSR that they even went to extremist mode and created some...No one opened their mouths...No one gave a shit about the consequences just like no one cares about the consequences of "freedom of speech/ hate" ...

If people cant get their act together this will spiral to some hate shit!

 

[psynic]

Senor,

Did you think about it before you killed a million afghans and a million and a half Iraqis.

Where was the freedom of speech for that NBA owner who just said to his girl friend " don't bring blacks as guests ".

Isn't france a country like germany and Britain where you cannot challenge the holocaust----.

Janaab,

A private organisation has the right to fire anyone with good reason. Freedom of speech is not without consequences.

 

[Donatello]

The world is paying for the sins of Osama Bin Laden

He started this fire in 2001
Since then it has only been a cycle of revenge

As usual, clueless post.

Osama was the hired man of choice for the CIA in the middle east and central Asia region during most of 1980s. Osama was more like a candle (in hindsight) that was lit by CIA.....only realize what they taught and trained him, he would become a gunpowder keg for the west as a whole.

Who was Osama bin Laden and above all, who were and are the Bin Ladens? Read some literature on that and you'll get the idea.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

As usual, clueless post.

Osama was the hired man of choice for the CIA in the middle east and central Asia region during most of 1980s. Osama was more like a candle (in hindsight) that was lit by CIA.....only realize what they taught and trained him, he would become a gunpowder keg for the west as a whole.

Who was Osama bin Laden and above all, who were and are the Bin Ladens? Read some literature on that and you'll get the idea.

Yeah you can keep believing that

Secondly with regard to your thread " OBAMA reply to Indian Girl "
I have to say something

Since I was inactive for a few days I missed the debate

Anyway ; my point is this

OBAMA was aware of CIA having tracked Osama's hideout in September 2010
through the Courier

Obama visited India in November 2010

When Obama was giving a clean chit to Pakistan ; the CIA was
very busy in deploying Human resources on the ground at Abottabad

Obama lied through his teeth in Mumbai BUT he knew what was
coming for Pakistan

The answer is Operation Neptune spear MAY 2 / 2011
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PS You should have done some homework before opening that thread

 

[MilSpec]

I would be interested to see if Charlie Hebdo questioned any aspect of the Holocaust, or mocked the French laws against free speech in that context.

Of course, the clueless will blabber about Holocaust being a fact, but that misses the whole point. Facts, more than religious beliefs, should be able to sustain any assault.

People talking about murder are also missing the point. Of course the murders were wrong, as are any extrajudicial executions. The topic here is to highlight the European hypocrisy on the subject of freedom of speech.

Don't like it, dont read it.

 

[SledgeHammer]

So many opinions to justify terrorism! Taliban say that paintings, films, sculptures, music, photography, etc. are haram and an insult to Islam, so they have a right to kill if you don't stop such haram things.

 

[Developereo]

Don't like it, dont read it.

I see you keep typing that.
I don't expect you to understand the bigger issue being discussed, so don't strain your brain.

Hint: why do European countries have laws around Holocaust speech. Why not just tell people to ignore whatever they read?

 

[MilSpec]

I see you keep typing that.
I don't expect you to understand the bigger issue being discussed, so don't strain your brain.

Hint: why do European countries have laws around Holocaust speech. Why not just tell people to ignore whatever they read?

Too dumb of a query to bother respond to.