Daily Mail wimps out, pixelates Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Muhammad

Charlie-Hebdo1.jpgThe Daily Mail's photo


Charlie-Hebdo2.jpg
An unexpurgated photo from the same shoot


The Daily Mail recently posted a story about the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo's new comic book life of Muhammad; they illustrated the story with a photo of a man standing in front of the Charlie Hebdo offices after Islamic jihadists had firebombed them. The man is holding one of the earlier issues of the paper that featured cartoons of Muhammad, but the Daily Mail pixelated out the images.

This is the suicide of the free press. The Daily Mail is generally better than the other papers in Britain in covering the jihad threat, but it is also careless, sensationalistic, and -- as this proves -- execrably cowardly. The Daily Mail is hereby signaling that violent intimidation works, and that all you have to do to get the West's vaunted "free press" to cower before you and give up its freedom is lob a few bombs, kill a few innocents, make a few threats.

The proper response to violent intimidation is not for its victims to curtail their activities and to change their behavior. That only encourages the bullies. The proper response is to stand up to them, show them that they will not get their way, and do all one can to protect those whom they may harm. This would show the world that the West will not give up its principle of free speech, our foremost bulwark against tyranny, and will stand for our principles against attempts to intimidate us into enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws upon ourselves.

Instead, the Daily Mail, like so many others, capitulates. Among British papers, the Independent showed no greater courage, although the often-dhimmi Telegraph did -- albeit at a distance.

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"Violent intimidation works, and that all you have to do to get the West's vaunted "free press" to cower before you and give up its freedom is lob a few bombs, kill a few innocents, make a few threats"----

Violence works.... but only if you're an islamonazi. Would the Daily Mail and others do the same for regular nazis and other extremist groups -self censorship to not offend them-? of course not, only for islamonazis.

They just didn't want to offend anyone...Especially anyone named Abu...You know how he gets when he's offended...
Yikes...the best thing to do is roll over, belly up, and play dead...And hope Abu doesn't notice you...It's much better to do that than preserve your manhood and dignity, by standing up to the bully...Yes Abu is tough, but he's not 'that' tough...Stop quivering and shaking, man up...Daily Mail...

The best and only remedy is for all major western papers to start featuring daily cartoons ridiculing Islam, and tell all who protest that they are free to leave for countries where that isn't allowed, immediately or shut the .. up

"This is the suicide of the free press." It is indeed, but there are other voices in Britain. The English Defence League says NFSE, No fucking surrender, ever. We shall overcome!

The pixelation is a cop out, of course, but it also means that the average Daily Mail reader doesn't get the impression that Arabic and French look kinda similar! :)

the Daily Mail....pthththththth...

At least they published the story. They didn't have to. They didn't need to show any picture at all. And they gave a chance for anyone to send unedited opinions.
As they are no doubt aware by now, violence directed at them would probably be forgotten fast enough. Maybe this kind of compromise means the message still gets out. God knows the dhimmi establishment pays little heed to violent reactions to free speech.

There may be an intelligent design behind this apparemt madness from the 'Daily Mail'..their head office is only across the road from the Israeli Embassy in London.

Watch this,atheist,ex-Muslim Iranian Maryam Namazie debates Ahmadi Muslims on "Does Sharia Law negate human rights?".Namazie says their version is only their version and they have a Disneyland Sharia law.

http://www.antisharia.com/2013/01/06/watch-the-debate-between-maryam-namazieatheistex-muslim-from-iran-and-ahmadi-muslims-about-does-sharia-law-negate-human-rights/

AND ALSO

"Article III about the Enslavement of Christians by Muslims in Literature:Voltaire"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/03/03/article-iii-about-the-enslavement-of-christians-by-muslims-in-literaturevoltaire/

Watch this,atheist,ex-Muslim Iranian Maryam Namazie debates Ahmadi Muslims on "Does Sharia Law negate human rights?".Namazie says their version is only their version and they have a Disneyland Sharia law.

http://www.antisharia.com/2013/01/06/watch-the-debate-between-maryam-namazieatheistex-muslim-from-iran-and-ahmadi-muslims-about-does-sharia-law-negate-human-rights/

AND ALSO

"Article III about the Enslavement of Christians by Muslims in Literature:Voltaire"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/03/03/article-iii-about-the-enslavement-of-christians-by-muslims-in-literaturevoltaire/

Watch this,atheist,ex-Muslim Iranian Maryam Namazie debates Ahmadi Muslims on "Does Sharia Law negate human rights?".Namazie says their version is only their version and they have a Disneyland Sharia law.

http://www.antisharia.com/2013/01/06/watch-the-debate-between-maryam-namazieatheistex-muslim-from-iran-and-ahmadi-muslims-about-does-sharia-law-negate-human-rights/

AND ALSO

"Article III about the Enslavement of Christians by Muslims in Literature:Voltaire"

http://www.antisharia.com/2012/03/03/article-iii-about-the-enslavement-of-christians-by-muslims-in-literaturevoltaire/

To the British left even reading the Daily Mail is akin to a kind of mental illness.

Even the term, 'Mail Reader' is a running joke amongst these arrogant useful idiots.

When our public funded broadcaster, the BBC feels free to not only join these no-mark humourless cretins whose authoritarianism seeks to quell all dissent we know where the land lies within the new British establishment.

Of course they do it all the time in their so called comedy shows and a dumbed down knee-jerk audience always hoots in self righteous puerile and Pavlovian glee.

The BBC represents the antithesis of anti-Britishness. It is blindly pro European, it hates Israel and it just adores multiculturalism and Islam whereas the Mail is precisely the opposite.

I agree reservedly with Robert in his wimping out analogy but compared to the rest this is chickenfeed.

Remember the Mail is true msm.

It has a big circulation and thousands of employees with a duty to protect them from the depradations of predatory Pakistani's who love our boundless welfare yet hate us and what we stand for.

I guess their excuse/reasoning would be why poke the hornet's nest?... and although it could be quite reasonably argued that this is the definiton of cowardice, at least in the land of the blind they do acknowledge that a hornet's nest is there.

Most, both sides of the Atlantic even refuse this obviousness.

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