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Slain Charlie Hebdo editor: “Suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam…is…discrimination”

Apr 18, 2015 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Stephane-Charbonnier“It’s time to finish with this disgusting paternalism of the white, left-wing bourgeois intellectual seeking to prove himself among the ‘poor unfortunate undereducated.'” Indeed. I have often remarked upon the Left’s condescending paternalism toward Muslims, in holding them to lower standards of behavior than those to which non-Muslims are held. Charb articulates their unconscious assumptions: “Since I am educated, I understand that Charlie Hebdo is using humour. But out of respect for you [Muslims], since you haven’t yet discovered second-degree humour, I will denounce these Islamophobic drawings that I pretend not to understand. I will put myself at your level to show that I love you.”

And even worse, this self-censorship plays into the hands of those who want to bring Islam’s blasphemy laws to the free world and criminalize criticism of Islam, thereby allowing the global jihad to proceed unopposed and unhindered.

“Charlie Hebdo’s dead editor in posthumous attack on left-wing French intellectuals,” by Henry Samuel, Telegraph, April 15, 2015 (thanks to Inexion):

Left-wing intellectuals in France who leapt to Charlie Hebdo’s defence after the Paris terror attacks are guilty of “disgusting paternalism”, the satirical weekly’s slain editor claims in a posthumous book.

Stéphane Charbonnier’s message from beyond the grave will rock the sense of national unity in the wake of the attacks in and around the French capital, which saw three terrorists gun down 17 people before being killed.

Charb, as he was known, finished Lettre Ouverte aux Escrocs de l’Islamophobie qui Font le Jeu des Racistes (Open Letter to the Fraudsters of Islamophobia who Play into Racists’ Hands) just two days before he was among 12 killed in the first attack by Islamist extremists to “avenge” the publication of drawings of the Prophet.

The book accuses the media of fomenting hatred against the magazine and the former Right-wing French president Nicolas Sarkozy of “freeing up” racism in France.

It slams Islamists who apply the Koran to the letter as if they were “putting up Ikea shelves”, and are ready to “cut the infidel’s throats along the dotted line otherwise God will deprive me of Club Med in the afterlife”.

But it saves its heaviest salvos for Left-leaning intellectuals, described as “ridiculous demagogues” for accusing Charlie Hebdo of going too far by publishing drawings of Mohammad. Many then joined mass street demonstrations after his death under the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ banner.

“The suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam, because Muslims are much more susceptible that [sic] the rest of the population, what is that, if not discrimination?,” it asks.

“It’s time to finish with this disgusting paternalism of the white, left-wing bourgeois intellectual seeking to prove himself among the ‘poor unfortunate undereducated’,” it goes on.

Seeking to explain what he saw as intellectuals’ condescension masquerading as solidarity, Charb writes: “Since I am educated, I understand that Charlie Hebdo is using humour. But out of respect for you [Muslims], since you haven’t yet discovered second-degree humour, I will denounce these Islamophobic drawings that I pretend not to understand. I will put myself at your level to show that I love you.

“These ridiculous demagogues just have a huge need to be the centre of attention and want to satisfy their formidable fantasy to dominate others.”…

He writes: “Those who accuse Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonist of Islamophobia every time a figure in them has a beard are not only showing dishonesty or gratuitous bad faith, they are displaying support for so-called radical Islam.”

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  1. Brian says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 9:08 am

    The Charlie Hebdo magazine lampooned viciously the Roman Catholic church/faith, the Pope, priests, bishops etc etc etc FAR MORE than they lampooned Islam, yet no Christian would be tempted to murder so many people over it. That is the massive difference between Christianity and Islam. Islam is inherently VIOLENT and always will be…It solves “problems” with brutal violence, always has, always will. I really think Islam should be outlawed as a fascist ideology.

    • Lynn says

      Apr 19, 2015 at 10:24 am

      “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose it’s law on all nations and to extend it’s powers to the entire planet”. Hasan Al-Banna founder muslim brotherhood

      And they mean it. Even the quiet one unless they show by their actions they are truly ‘reformed’ Muslims. The quiet ones attending agitating mosques are merely practicing taqiyya if they say otherwise.

      Find out what your national and local church site offers in education about islam. Raise hell if it’s taqiyya. ELCA uses ISNA donated materials. The church offices were not happy with my phone calls requesting clarification of their stand.

  2. Scott says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 9:13 am

    Unfortunately, the words of “Charb” will fall silent on those “leftist, demagogic, bourgeois (pseudo) intellectuals he so well described.
    They will read them, silently feel a moment of guilt and then continue to assist the suicide of Western Civilization in the name of political correctness.
    This must be a similar path that Rome followed……..

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 11:11 am

      Technical note:
      Scott,
      Why did you put parenthesis around the word pseudo?
      If you meant pseudo-intellectual then a hyphen would better distinguish it from the other adjectives?
      The way it is written could be misinterpreted to mean that ‘bourgeois’ means pseudo which it does not.

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 11:36 am

      Antiestablishment English speaking Marxists and leftist university professors who want to sound intellectual have latched onto this word ‘bourgeois’ and overused it and morphed it into a catch-all as much because of the way it is pronounced as from its actual meaning.

    • Anna says

      Apr 19, 2015 at 2:36 am

      Yes, they let the ” Barbarians ” in !

      “Increasing pressure from peoples outside the Empire, the much maligned barbarians, had compelled the Romans in later antiquity to let more and more foreigners inside their state. Since most of these spoke a language based on Common Germanic, the Romans referred to them collectively as Germans, even though they actually represented a wide array of nations and cultures. These newly adopted resident aliens were assigned to work farms or were conscripted into the Roman army in numbers so large that the late Latin word for “soldier” came to be barbarus (“barbarian”). And where these barbarians met resistance, they sneaked or pushed their way inside the Empire, and in such a profusion that Rome was fast turning into a nation of immigrants……..”

      From usu.edu

      • Shane says

        Apr 19, 2015 at 9:44 am

        It’s happening again in Europe and North America as we allow huge numbers of Muslims to immigrate into our civilization. Western Civilization is destroying itself by allowing millions of hostile Muslims to immigrate here and by attacking Christianity.

        • Anna says

          Apr 19, 2015 at 11:25 am

          Agree, and it is terrifying .
          But there are a few differences Shane, the barbarians were met with resistance then ! Unlike here centuries later when they are welcomed, pampered ( at least the barbarians had to work in ancient Rome !) and their barbarity sanctioned, excused and even supported as ” religious-cultural” .
          Also, Romans did not have as much history to refer to as we do.
          My conclusion : we are more gullible , powerless and suicidal than the ancient Romans were !
          At least the general public are, fed lies by the elites who are well aware what is happening under our noses, actively encourage it and most likely DO refer to the fall of Rome with a ” ah ha, this is the way to divide and conquer and start the world afresh !! ( Pol Pot type of insanity comes to mind)
          Our elites , Western ” leaders” who obviously work closely together, ( a few at the top is all that is necessary, underneath them most are oblivious to the real motives) understand our ancient enemy Islam is a means of destroying our Judeo-Christian values, the stumbling block to their “Utopia” ( which is Hitlerism/Stalinism/Potpotism /maoism all rolled into one melting pot of control and misery)
          As soon as their poster-boy the USSR fell, plan B came into being and we were flooded with Muslim immigrants.

  3. JuanColina says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 10:06 am

    The islamification of the west can only happen if our leaders prevent us from stopping it.

    Don’t let them.

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 10:47 am

    Not only can you not make fun of it, you are not allowed to even acknowledge it. With all its stupidity, cruelty and hypocrisy, Islam is the richest bed for humor and sarcasm. Yet there is none. Sure, we are Charlies alright: we are cowed into collective silence.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 11:33 am

      Sharia law forbids a kafir to ‘mention’ anything about Islam or study it or teach about it.

      All news that shows a connection between Islam and cruelty or violence is therefore forbidden. Only news that tends to promote Islam is permissible under Sharia…nothing controversial.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Apr 18, 2015 at 12:22 pm

        Sharia law forbids a kafir to ‘mention’ anything about Islam or study it or teach about it.

        Is that true? I did not know that, but it does make perfect sense. That means that Moslems are conscious of Islam’s coercion of Infidels. That does not fit well with the image of Unicorns galloping happily through the green grass fields of Dar al-Islam, of which we here in Dar al-Harb are slated to become a part.

        As for the lack of sarcasm, anybody recall the comedic Moslem reporter on the Daily Show? The content delivered by the dude in every one of his bits was careful to avoid denunciation of Islam, but instead tended to lampoon an unexplained gap in understanding between Infidels and Unicorns, as if some kind of unexplained incompetence on both sides.

        That’s what I like to call tiptoeing on eggshells.

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 11:42 am

      Alarmed Pig Farmer said,
      “Islam is the richest bed for humor and sarcasm”
      ——————

      Because Islam is so incredibly vulnerable in this area — They resort to violence.
      Muslims have no natural defense against well deserved mockery.
      They bring it upon themselves.

      • Davegreybeard says

        Apr 18, 2015 at 6:15 pm

        @Jay Airahs
        “Muslims have no natural defense against well deserved mockery.
        They bring it upon themselves.”

        Of course they have a “natural defense” against mockery, Jay, it’s called murder.

        Seems to work pretty well too.

        • Mirren10 says

          Apr 18, 2015 at 6:34 pm

          ”Of course they have a “natural defense” against mockery, Jay, it’s called murder.”

          Yep. Along with lawfare, playing the victim, pulling the racist/bigot card, and for the ‘moderates’, quietly and patiently worming their way into the body politic; education, government, armed forces, the police, the judiciary.

        • Nathan says

          Apr 18, 2015 at 8:20 pm

          It’s exactly how the left operate… shout you down, attack your character, attack your family, your livelihood and then kill you!!!

          I think they read the same book? 😀

        • Jay Airahs says

          Apr 18, 2015 at 8:21 pm

          @Davegreybeard
          Islam is indefensible.
          I consider murder an unnatural defense.
          Muslims resort to murder because Islamic ideology is so inherently asinine that it cannot stand up to even the slightest bit of mockery.

          Islam it ripe for ridicule.
          Easy pickens

  5. Islam_Is_Islam says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 11:06 am

    OT
    Anyone else having difficulty getting on Atlas Shrugs? Did Ms. Geller get hacked again?!

    • Tom W Harris says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      I think she did get hacked. For a couple days now I’ve been getting a “Server not found” error whenever I try to reach her site.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 11:25 am

    The book “slams Islamists who apply the Koran to the letter”.
    Charb unfortunately did not know that Islam allows no room for selectivity:

    “ It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision:” (Koran 33:36, part of Islamic law).

    No-one can deny any verse in the Koran. That is a capital offence. In just the same way to revile the messenger of Allah is also a capital offence, that anyone is free to carry out without repercussion “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” o8.7(7), o8.4). That last item is made known in the mosques, and was well known to his killers.

    • Holy Prophet APF says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 1:53 pm

      Reliance of the Traveller is an interesting name. We know who’s being relied on: the Holy Prophet Mohammed and his insanity avatar Allah, but travelling where? Where is all this going?

      • voegelinian says

        Apr 18, 2015 at 2:56 pm

        The “Traveler” of that title may well refer to the Muslim migrations, which have been going on for 1,400 years, and which are joined at the hip with its supremacist expansionism (whether by hook (violence) or by crook (stealth), or both as in our time). I.e., in Islam, a Muslim be definition is a pilgrim immigrant in the never-ending desideratum to conquer the world. Any Muslims who seem stationary (no longer on the move) are such by virtue of having been (or their parents or grandparents having been) part of the process of expansion.

        Aren’t all peoples throughout history like this, the reader may ask? Sure, all peoples throughout history have been migratory to one degree or another, and all “lands” and “nations” and “states” (and “kingdoms” and “empires” etc.) reflect the relatively stationary settlement in that process, but to one degree or another still in flux. However, only Muslims have had a blueprint articulating and mandating an entelechy of world conquest in the name and context of a fanatical eschatolgy which also includes supremacism, hatred of the Other, and a psychopathic cult of violence and deceit as part of the whole complex.

  7. mortimer says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 11:35 am

    The Leftards are betraying what Charb did for them: defend their freedom of expression against the barbarians.

    The Leftards naively believe they will be able to control their ‘noble savages’ once they are in the West in overwhelming numbers.

  8. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    French film director, writer, and producer Luc Besson wrote a (love) letter to Muslims after the attack.

    Youtube summary at
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_j5t-wjn0

    Full English translation at the Guardian (Yuk!)

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Apr 18, 2015 at 2:17 pm

      Looking at him pontificate with mistakedness, it almost seems like he was reading from a script. The same tired, old, ahistoric script everybody else reads from. The only reason he did such a regurgitation is as a publicity stunt, unless he’s stupid enough to believe such nonsense, which he probably is. Yeah, get “French” Moslems employment opportunities and that’ll stop the Jihad. Have Moslems suffered from chronic unemployment or underemployment for 1,400 years?

  9. Dag says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    I’m doing my part here. I published an illustrated Life of Mohammed.

    http://www.amazon.com/Snootom-D-W-Walker/dp/0987761587/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427136006&sr=1-1&keywords=snootom

    It’s pretty simple: I was going to publish it as Motoons, but the censorship in the West made it advisable that I turn the word around, hence Snootom. Mohammed became Demmahom. Instead of writing about an evil thug founding a religion called Islam, the character in my book founded Malsi. Now you can get the book. Otherwise, maybe not.

    http://www.amazon.com/Snootom-D-W-Walker/dp/0987761587/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427136006&sr=1-1&keywords=snootom

    No, my book is not really written in Samizdat. Samizdat is not really an ancient Polish dialect. No, cartoons are not really ancient, Classical Medieval oil paintings even if I claim they are. But yes, my character’s eyes do look like those of Charles Manson.

    Snootom is a parody of the life of Mohammed. If you get Charlie Hebdo, then my book is no great challenge. It ridicules Islam.

  10. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    Help! The jackals are chewing on our children’s legs and the dingo has got the baby.
    What can we possibly do to stop this?

    Now, Now dear, let’s not be so judgmental;
    that is what animals love to do.
    These poor animals must be very hungry.
    Let’s feed them our neighbor’s children too and maybe they will go away and leave us in peace.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 4:22 am

    “Those who accuse Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonist of Islamophobia every time a figure in them has a beard are not only showing dishonesty or gratuitous bad faith, they are displaying support for so-called radical Islam.”

    Could anyone have put it more plainly than Stéphane? It’s time for the New Left to part with the old pretences and false courage and to get behind plain speech and civil society. No one is forcing them to stay in bed with todays tyrants of Islam.

  12. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Yet again …
    Muslim husband commits honor killing in Pakistan.
    After years of continual, Islam sanctioned abuse against his wife, he finally decided to beat her one last time and douse her with petrol because he claimed that she went to visit her sister without first asking his permission.

    If she did in fact seek a moment of respite and visit her sister without asking her husbands permission first, Islamic law does have punishments for disobedient wives and far be it for any non-Muslim feminist to dare object.

    After all Muhammad is their example.
    Is it really fair that we should expect Muslim husbands to behave like decent human beings?

  13. jewdog says

    Apr 19, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    What the Left should do, if it were honest, is to craft a constitution which embodies their values. Its first amendment would be an homage to anti-racism, since that, and not free speech, is what they consider most important. The other clauses would be devoted to the human right to shout down alleged racists at speaking events as well as to the sorts of draconian punishments that they envision for racists.
    Leftists and Islamic supremacists can unite on these principles, until the day when failure to fully conform to Sharia is considered more important than anti-racism, when the Koran supercedes the anti-racism constitution. As in Iran, 1979.

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