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Financial Times calls for Sharia self-censorship: “Some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo”

Jan 7, 2015 4:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Charlie Hebdo MahometThe Financial Times piece has been edited. The Daily Beast points out that it used to say this: “If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of freedom of speech….This is not in the slightest to condone the murderers… it is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications… which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims, but are actually just being stupid.”

Anyway, this is how the freedom of speech dies. The intelligentsia comes out for “common sense,” which equals self-censorship to avoid offending Muslims — in other words, voluntary submission to Sharia blasphemy laws.

“The gunmen in Paris attacked more than a Muslim-baiting magazine,” by Tony Barber, Financial Times, January 7, 2015:

…Charlie Hebdo is a bastion of the French tradition of hard-hitting satire. It has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling Muslims. Two years ago the magazine published a 65-page strip cartoon book portraying the Prophet’s life. And this week it gave special coverage to Soumission (“Submission”), a new novel by Michel Houellebecq, the idiosyncratic author, which depicts France in the grip of an Islamic regime led by a Muslim president.

This is not in the slightest to condone the murderers, who must be caught and punished, or to suggest that freedom of expression should not extend to satirical portrayals of religion. It is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims….

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  1. Lu says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Totally unacceptable view – saying that:

    “It is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims….”

    is a first-class dhimmitude.

    Just the contrary – all the free press (how much of it is left nowadays?) should start publishing the cartoons en masse.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm

      Surrenderism

  2. KrazyKafir says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Absolute gutless dhimmi worms.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 4:46 pm

      Tony Barber’s comments are those of a weasel and worm.

      Terrorists only respect strength and unless Europeans turn out by their HUNDREDS of thousands to march for FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, the Islamic barbarians will win.

      They know that. We don’t. Tony Barber doesn’t know much. Take your head out, Tony.

  3. noellsq says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    First I want to say that I feel for the murdered civilians. Their is this big uproar when the press or a printed publication is terrorized but was their this same uproar when Jews, Christians,Muslims,Hindus or anybody that does not have the same beliefs as them are terrorized. It is time that we start arming ourselves and stop worrying about offending anybody.

    • akumaleva says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:01 pm

      What you say is true but this quote “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” –Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier (1967 – 2015), publisher, Charlie Hebdo. could serve as a wake up call for Europe and the Western world. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

    • EvaGirl says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:06 pm

      What you say is true but this quote “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” –Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier (1967 – 2015), publisher, Charlie Hebdo. Could serve as a wake up call for Europe and the Western world. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

  4. Stanley says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    Cowards..dangerous cowards at that. To appease totalitarians is to side with them.

    My heart goes out to the families of those murdered.

    I hope that the Hebdo continues, one of the last bastions in Europe of freedom of speech.

    As for the FT article…..disgusting.

  5. john spielman says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    absolutely, dhimmitude saves lives(NOT) as evidenced by the Boston Bombing, Mumbai massacres , etc
    THEY HATE US BECAUSE WE ARE NOT MUSLIMS. and according to the mad rantings of their demon possessed false prophet they can kill us anytime they want.

  6. BlueRaven says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    “It is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims”

    What a bunch of pathetic loser. FT stands for Fkcngi Tramps.

  7. nationalist says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    Drinking game

  8. American Citizen says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    Follow the money trail, always follow the money trail. Who has financied the millions of small arms sent to terrorists? Who has bought oil and built the middle east? Who created Osama bin Laden?

    It is no accident that the FT is calling for restraint. It really is about the global elite bankers using any means possible including fundamental Islam to force the world into a one world controlled society and what better mechanism than sheer raw fear generated by these cruel barbaric acts?

    All this is no accident, the oil prices falling, now these attacks, it is all being orchestrated for an end.

    While some anger is justified against the teachings of the Qu’ran, please re-assess and place the appropriate blame where it belongs.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:28 pm

      NONSENSE.

      All you’re doing is throwing more sand, deflecting attention from Muslims and the imperative to Jihad that is hardwired into the core Islamic texts.

      So who orchestrated the past 1400 years of Jihad? In India, in Africa, everywhere?

      If there were no Quran, no Hadith, no Sira, no Islam, no Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, there would be no Jihad.

      Got Muslims? – Got Jihad.

      That has been the case for **fourteen hundred years**, not just the past fifty or sixty or even hundred years.

      Jihad existed *before* there was any such thing as “banks” and bankers and international corporations; and it had *all* the same features as it has today, it used the same methods and has always had the same goal. The goal of *Islam* is a global sharia despotism; and always has been, since the 7th century or thereabouts. It’s not that Islam and Muslims- oh poor lil puppets – are being used by someone else; they are doing it themselves, they don’t need anybody else to tell them what to do. And wherever and whenever there is division in the camp of the infidels – as there was in the 7th century already when Byzantium and Persia had been sparring for years – the Muslims will exploit it. And wherever there are greedy or corrupt or gullible people in the camp of the Infidels, as there are now and have been on many, many previous occasions all the way down the centurie s- the Muslims will exploit them.

      Mohammed ordered the assassination of poets who mocked him. And so, right here in Paris in the 21st century, Mohammedan hitmen kill…poets, cartoonists who mocked Mohammed.

      • Roderick MacUalraig says

        Jan 7, 2015 at 7:43 pm

        Damn. That was sound.

        Perfect response.

    • Champ says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:46 pm

      American Citizen wrote:

      While some anger is justified against the teachings of the Qu’ran, please re-assess and place the appropriate blame where it belongs.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      I must inquire as to whether or not “American Citizen” has even *read* the quran!

      If not, then please make it a priority, so that you may offer some good, sound advice.

      • Western Canadian says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 1:15 am

        And while doing so, question the claim that he/she is even an American citizen….

      • pftpete says

        Jan 8, 2015 at 10:08 am

        It is easy to be a peaceful muslim whllst other muslims carry the sword

  9. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    How about some common sense that you shouldn’t kill someone simply because you don’t like what they say.

    • mariam rove says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 4:42 pm

      Not when it comes to their murderous pedophile prophet. M

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Jan 7, 2015 at 4:55 pm

        Yes, that’s exactly what the Financial Times is saying. If you value your life, don’t insult Muhammad. Are they being smart ………. or idiots? I call them cowards AND idiots.

  10. Peter says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    How about Islam-inspired hate-mongers, who believer their religion is the only “true faith” and should be imposed on all of humanity learn to leave other societies and people who don’t share their beliefs alone?

  11. Angemon says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims, but are actually just being stupid

    No. Just… No. Shame on you mr. Tony Barber. Shame. On. YOU!

  12. thomas pellow says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    “Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris sees cartoonists around the world unite

    with touching art tributes.”

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/charlie-hebdo-terror-attack-paris-4937174

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 7:40 pm

      Some of those aren’t’ bad. But I’d like to see one, just one, that references Asma Bint Marwan. That tackles, head on, the sharia ban on criticism and mockery of mohammed and islam.

      Or that makes the link between this murder, by Muslims, of French cartoonists, and the murder – by a Muslim – of Theo Van Gogh and the attempted murders – by Muslims – of Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard , and the “hit” that the Mullahs of Iran have out on Salman Rushdie.

      I’d like to see Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks creating cartoons directly lambasting Gang Boss Mohammed, sender-out of hitmen.

      What’s in order, right now, is not grief, but RAGE.

      And fuelled by white-hot righteous rage, an *avalanche* of blisteringly accurate mockery, satire, lampooning and criticism of Mohammed, Islam, Muslims, the Quran…ALL of it fact-based, capable of being verified by any infidel checking the original Islamic source-texts and sharia handbooks.

      I do hope that Sergio Redegalli in Australia is busy painting a billboard-size comment, right now.

      • St. Croix says

        Jan 7, 2015 at 8:34 pm

        DDA I really like your ideas. You come up with the details and I’ll do the drawings for you.

  13. Neil Jennison says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Dear Lord! So it is their own fault for not being sensitive to the feelings of murderous lunatics?

    What is happening in the world?

    We shouldn’t “provoke Muslims” ????? Provoke them? Why? Because if we do they will murder us?

    Any criticism is “provocation”? What screwed up logic!

    Let me lay my cards on table. ISLAM TEACHES EVIL.

    Is that provocative? It is certainly TRUE!

  14. Marblenecltr says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    I remember Paris years ago when France was struggling to keep its Algerian colony, and the police on the street were given submachine guns to stop riots. In that instance, the Algerians had reasonable motivation, and the French colonies of North Africa were frequently fighting troops of the Foreign Legion. Today, there are reasons for armed protection of the legitimate homeland of the French people. The first invasion and occupation of France, late seventh-early eight century was reversed by Charles Mattel (The Hammer) around 730, year of our Christian God. What name will be given current French leaders? Will there be a new slogan courageously shouted by lovers of freedom, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death your right to say it. If you don’t offend anyone.

    • Marblenecltr says

      Jan 7, 2015 at 6:49 pm

      Sorry, my tablet or OS was unable to spell “Martell” when I typed it.

  15. Steffen Larsen says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Financial Times: “this week [Charlie Hebdo] gave special coverage to Soumission (“Submission”), a new novel by Michel Houellebecq”.

    Not mentioned is that Charlie Hebdo mocks and needles Michel Houellebecq and his novel.

  16. Katnis says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    I’m afraid there is no common sense that applies to this situation

  17. Wellington says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    Sometimes it’s a tough call for me whom I despise more——-Islamic terrorists or the current bunch of Western elites in the media, academia and the political realm. Actually, most times I lean toward the latter.

  18. forrest says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    “I’m not saying that it’s ok to kill people for free speech, just that people shouldn’t have free speech out of fear that they will be killed for it.”

    Yeah, no.

    The answer to this is not to not say anything out of fear that you will become a target. The answer is to make the ones who would target you the target. The anti-anti-islam forces in Eurpoe have brought this on themselves. By rolling ut the red carpet to people who would murder innocents in their country and condemning those who want this to end, the governments of the world who have caved to the onslaught of islamization have brought this on themselves.

    It’s time to stand up and fight these people in the streets if needed! Just as we once decided that the very ideas of Nazism were such a threat to society that it must be wiped out, the ideals of islam; shariah law, the deaths of “infidels”, stoning of rape victime, slavery, and Taqiyya must be stomped out and removed from this world or we will be the ones stomped out.

    “The first rule of surviving a gunfight is to realize that you are in one.”

  19. Georg says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    I’m sure “FREEDOM GO TO HELL!” is just fine by them, however. Bunch of weasels..

  20. R Cole says

    Jan 7, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    In Arabia when a woman is raped – it is normal to say that it was her own fault for being outside of the house without her male guardian – read: legal owner.

    So therefore it is reasonable to assume that the woman should take some responsibility for the actions of the rapist. And serve time in jail or receive some punishment in live with her part [….in breaking with established religious code]

    Outrageous!

    But how do we go from where we are /or have been in western society to there – the Saudi position?

    Already in Europe people are arrested for criticizing Islam. In Spain an ex-Muslim was arrested and then threatened with deportation – for saying what he was taught when he was a Muslim […he did not say it taught peace]. David Cameron the champion of free speech today – not long ago proposed a law that would make it a criminal offense to criticize sharia.

    Of course this is all in the name of being reasonable.

    But how do we get to the position taken in Saudi Arabia where people face long term imprisonment and even beheading […for crimes against Islam].

    To start with, we are already accept that one is deserving of attack – for criticizing or offending their Islamic beliefs.

    Look at Geert Wilders there is almost a tacit acceptance in parts of the Dutch media that if he is killed – he would have brought it on himself.

    We know what we are doing.

    This is what the new integration looks like.

    Because apparently according to so many reports – French and other EU Muslims are ‘desperate’ to integrate into western society. Or – is it to have the western society integrate into their’s – which many believe in all its myriad of restrictive laws – is far superior.

    The problem with this reverse integration – is you only need to look at the Islamic world – where this islamization has been in full swing – for centuries – to see that these demands can never be satisfied.

    It is a delusion!

    Because the alternative – to freedom and rights – is a sow’s ear.

    ::

    Some hard logic is needed to deal with Islam.

    Where the prevalent idea that immigration means Islamization of the host country – should be discouraged.

  21. Salah says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 2:46 am

    Common sense? ok, how about some “halal” cartoons!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/drawing-muhammad-dessiner-mahomet.html

  22. DAVE KENT says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 4:30 am

    what a bunch of spineless gets they are. I think every free press newspaper should publish them Mohammed picture as solidarity to all free press up yours islam

  23. blameitonthemoonlight says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 6:11 am

    The Spectator have picked up on exactly Roberts point. So it seems not all the mainstream press in the UK are DUII (driving under the influence of Islam).

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-the-truths-that-ought-to-be-self-evident-but-still-arent/

  24. Beatrix says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    During WW2, you couldn’t call all Germans Nazis. But without the complicity of the Germans because of loyalty, indifference or fear, how could Hitler have gone to war, taken over most of Europe, killed 6 million Jews, and contributed to the deaths of 50 million people? And if there weren’t more Germans loyal or indifferent to Hitler than fearful, how could the loyalist have taken over all of Germany? And when does indifference to evil do anything except contribute to more evil?

  25. don vito says

    Jan 8, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    It would seem, the Kufr needs more than “a little common sense”. We need Uncommon sense. Super sense. Value sense. Dogid sense. Truth sense. Pride sense. Honest sense. Determined sense. Common sense=senselessness. Boundless sense. Rebellious sense. Righteous sense. Right sense. No nonsense. We need Kufr sense.

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