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Instagram blocks accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists for depicting Muhammad

Sep 8, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer 8 Comments

“These accounts were deleted by mistake. We reinstated them as soon as we became aware of them, and we apologised,” says Mélanie Agazzome, Instagram’s communications director for France and southern Europe.

Sure. All right. But have you ever noticed that these “mistakes” always go in one direction, toward the silencing of dissenting voices, and toward, among other things, the implementation of Sharia blasphemy restrictions? Now, why is that?

“Two Charlie Hebdo Instagram accounts temporarily blocked for depicting prophet Mohammed,” Brussels Times, September 7, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Two Instagram accounts of Charlie Hebdo journalists, who had posted the front page of the weekly with the reproduction of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, were temporarily disabled on Sunday.

The original publication of the cartoons prompted two jihadist brothers to invade the editorial staff of the magazine in Paris and kill twelve people. The weekly decided to republish the cartoons at the onset of the trial of the suspected helpers in the attack and those in its wake.

“These accounts were deleted by mistake. We reinstated them as soon as we became aware of them, and we apologised,” Mélanie Agazzome, Instagram’s communications director for France and southern Europe, told AFP.

All it takes is one report for an account to be deactivated, and those accounts had been flagged.

Charlie Hebdo’s Instagram account “was not closed, was not censored, and some members shared the cartoons,” Agazzome added.

The cartoonist Coco and journalist Laure Dassy had complained on Twitter that their Instagram accounts had been deactivated after they rebroadcast the coverage of their newspaper, which had reproduced on Wednesday the cartoons of Mohammed published in 2006.

“Everything is restored. It is possible that massive reports from the cover may have caused Instagram accounts to be suspended automatically,” Coco tweeted midday.

“The right to blasphemy cannot be diminished,” Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot commented on Sunday, adding that it “is a right in the secular French Republic: we must fight for it to be respected.”…

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, free speech, Internet jihad, Muhammad cartoons Tagged With: Charlie Hebdo, Instagram, Mélanie Agazzome


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Comments

  1. elee says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    Any concession to these murdering bastards is always a mistake.

    Reply
  2. owensgate says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 1:58 pm

    Yeah, Instagram really needs to protect mohammad. No, wait… What?

    Reply
  3. Malcolm (South Afric) says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    Instagram of course welcomes vile comments from these same murderous maniacs, such as death to the USA, Trump Jewish people and Christians.

    Reply
    • curious george says

      Sep 8, 2020 at 2:37 pm

      Malcolm (South Afric)

      +1

      Reply
  4. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    They can go crying to social media companies All they like we don’t care who bans us we will find ways to expose this evil satanic ideology Social media like IslamGram twitter 2facebook Notube can’t stop us they can ban all they like The truth is our weapon

    Reply
  5. Simon Fish says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    Everyone reading this should do as I’ve done and save the image. Then post image to Instagram along with the heading: Instagram blocks accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists for depicting Muhammad
    Let’s all affirm our right to free speech !…

    Reply
  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 8, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    Instagram blocks accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists for depicting Muhammad
    …………..

    Just appalling. This doesn’t look like a mistake to me.

    Reply
  7. Christopher Watson says

    Sep 10, 2020 at 3:53 am

    Our free speech and liberty will be erased not by moslems but by our social media companies. If the newspapers had done that during the two World Wars in the 20th century the editors would have been executed.

    Reply

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