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je Suis Charlie protests in Muslim countries?
juliancarswell
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Today the BBC and sky have the reports of Je Suis Charlie protests taking place in countries all around the world and they were listing them, when I noticed non of them were Muslim. I hope I am wrong and things may have moved along since lunchtime when I watched it but has anyone seen any reports of reports of je Suis Charlie protests in muslim countries? Perhaps I am being naive and expecting too much. May be if not je suis charlie, then protests condeming the violence
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Found this link
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec12-protests1_09-14/
This is not about the massacre in Paris but Muslims were protesting about a film made in California that mocked Mohammed.
One demonstrators comments below are so completely over the top - unbelievable.
'SAMIR ANWAR, Egypt (through translator): I came to the square not to attack the American Embassy or America itself.
I am against those who produced, financed, and acted in the movie. SAMIR ANWAR, Egypt (through translator): I came to the square not to attack the American Embassy or America itself.
I am against those who produced, financed, and acted in the movie. I demand that they be publicly executed. They didn’t just insult Prophet Mohammed. They insulted all Muslims.I demand that they be publicly executed. They didn’t just insult Prophet Mohammed. They insulted all Muslim'
So the one link to a protest is just muslims protesting against free speech
Says it all really.
One thing's certain - nothing WORSE than happened to the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo!
The Turkish government has condemned the attacks but the people...silence.
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_turkey-strongly-condemns-paris-shooting-calls-it-unacceptable-savagery_369143.html
Protesters get killed in Islamic countries with alarming frequency. I would hate to see more innocent people die because nutters won't tolerate freedom of speech.
Whereas *I* would hate to see more "good men doing nothing"...for you know where THAT leads ;-)
Probably much the same reason as all those hundreds of good, loving mothers and fathers who have waved off their sons to go for "a year's study in Turkey"...probably even gave them the money to do it...without knowing exactly where they were going or what they were doing...
...allegedly...
I mean - would YOU hand your 18 year old son - emerging from his bedroom for the first time in months - hundreds of quid to book a flight "to go to Turkey to study"...without giving him the third degree? Who, what where, when?
I read there was a vigil at the French consulate in Istanbul last night though I haven't seen any photos of it.
Journalists from various Turkish media outlets shared these:
http://www.bianet.org/bianet/toplum/161403-turkiye-deki-gazeteciler-ben-de-charlie-yim
Yes - there have been protests round the world from journalists....who would do, freedom of speech being close to their particular hearts - but I think we're more interested in the average people in the street...
Religious countries do not work because they are premised on an imposed unquestionable belief system.
Oh yes! It's one of those fundamental differences. They have "turn a blind eye" for our "turn the other cheek".
...but how many years ago was that??? How many Islamic terrorist plots and bombings and killings have there been or attempted around the world since THEN without a protest?
It's almost as though the Enlightenment and the discarding of religious belief as a consequence of scientific revelation during the 19th century never happened.
Now we have the re-emergence of evangelical schools (Christian, Jewish and Islamic) in which creationism is taught alongside or in preference to Evolution.
Is that 'silence' in the sense of 'loudly protesting'? http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Attack-to-critical-magazine-Charlie-Hebdo-protested-in-Istanbul_3580-CHMTY0MzU4MC80
And there is something unpleasant about the constant suggestion that unless vast numbers of Muslims are rioting in the streets about something, they haven't done ENOUGH. Almost every country, including Pakistan and Afghanistan, has issued official statements of condemnation. But it is unreasonable to suppose that a country is full of people morally bankrupt unless crowds are weeping in the street. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan suffer hundreds of civilian deaths a year due to terrorism. There is no reason for them to think that European lives are so much more precious than their own that they deserve special respect.
They never really went away. They either hid themselves away, free from ridicule...or took off to the States over the centuries and played with snakes. It's just that they've "come back into fashion" along with every other sort of post-'60s loonyness
Tracy or Publius Maro
No; "silence" in the sense of
...a very small number - in the most secular city in all of Turkey.
Thanks. I corrected my spelling mistake.
I suspect most of them were foreign tourists.
So, to you, from your personal perspective, all human life is equally precious?