Silence those radical secularists!

From roots

“Author” of the strip, reflecting here on the likes of the BBC and the Guardian, who blame Macron for being rather too robust in his defence of French enlightenment values, of Liberté, égalité, fraternité and who hammer the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for printing those horrid Muhammad cartoons. “Je suis Charlie” back in 2015 lasted for all of, like, five minutes. In the battle of European enlightenment values vs Islamic values, can we doubt where the trend is?

I saw a commenter on Al-Jazeera say that if any other minority or idea were made fun of, instead of Islam, we wouldn’t accept it, which is patently false as Hebdo has always made fun of everyone and all ideologies. Including Islam, the ideology.

It’s perfectly safe to like this cartoon — it’s not bigoted! The likes of Chicago prof Jerry Coyne writes the foreword to a collection of the strips. Click on the “Jesus &. Mo” label below to see my selection over the years, or go straight to the source. The writer of the strip has only ever been known as “Author”, a wise precaution given the anti-cartoon murders in France and Austria.

ADDED (6 November): SCMP Editorial in “don’t blame Islam” mode. And getting schooled in the comments. The Editorial claims Macron’s defence of freedom-of-expression laws is “inflammatory”. To “certain” sectors of the community, no doubt it is. That’s precisely the point. Does one stand up for hard-fought values or bend to the demands of an implacable religion, at the first sight of a knife, or a gun? 

ADDED: Screenshot of some comments at SCMP site. Mine at top…

Screenshot of comments at the SCMP Editorial
Some people think Blasphemy is against the law