Charlie Hebdo: The Magazine Should Stop Tarnishing Religions
Headline: Muslim leaders call out Charlie Hebdo
Subhead: The magazine should stop tarnishing religions
Section: Opinions
Date: Feb. 16, 2015
Words: 516
By William Gruppo
According to an article appearing on jpost.com (“Egypt's Grand Mufti warns Charlie Hebdo against publishing new Mohammad caricature”), Muslim leaders around the world are sending warnings to the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to not publish a cover egregiously disrespecting the Muslim icon, Mohammed.
The office of Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam said, “This edition will cause a new wave of hatred in French and Western society in general and what the magazine is doing does not serve coexistence or a dialog between civilizations.”
Charlie Hebdo published this article because, according to a BBC article there was a shooting in Paris, …show more content…
I am not saying that death is the answer to anything by any means but, when a magazine is directly poking at a bear in a loose cage, over and over again, is it surprising when there is some sort of reaction?
Charlie Hebdo should not be printing covers that purposely diminish the Muslim religion’s prophet, nor any religion for that matter.
Growing up as a Catholic I did not know about any other religions. Catholics are taught from a young age that this is how it is, do not question it and live by it. I am now not so religious.
I believe that everyone should believe what he or she wants to believe. Whether that is worshiping a pig, or bowing down to a cat. The world is not black and white anymore. It is full of differing views, conflicting beliefs and so on.
Many Americans shout, “Do not negotiate with terrorism.” I could argue that the French would not be “negotiating” so to speak; however, they are being reasonable. The government should put a limit on certain things Charlie Hebdo publishes. Why add so much fuel to an already out of hand fire? Freedom of the press can be expressed in so many other
Subhead: The magazine should stop tarnishing religions
Section: Opinions
Date: Feb. 16, 2015
Words: 516
By William Gruppo
According to an article appearing on jpost.com (“Egypt's Grand Mufti warns Charlie Hebdo against publishing new Mohammad caricature”), Muslim leaders around the world are sending warnings to the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to not publish a cover egregiously disrespecting the Muslim icon, Mohammed.
The office of Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam said, “This edition will cause a new wave of hatred in French and Western society in general and what the magazine is doing does not serve coexistence or a dialog between civilizations.”
Charlie Hebdo published this article because, according to a BBC article there was a shooting in Paris, …show more content…
I am not saying that death is the answer to anything by any means but, when a magazine is directly poking at a bear in a loose cage, over and over again, is it surprising when there is some sort of reaction?
Charlie Hebdo should not be printing covers that purposely diminish the Muslim religion’s prophet, nor any religion for that matter.
Growing up as a Catholic I did not know about any other religions. Catholics are taught from a young age that this is how it is, do not question it and live by it. I am now not so religious.
I believe that everyone should believe what he or she wants to believe. Whether that is worshiping a pig, or bowing down to a cat. The world is not black and white anymore. It is full of differing views, conflicting beliefs and so on.
Many Americans shout, “Do not negotiate with terrorism.” I could argue that the French would not be “negotiating” so to speak; however, they are being reasonable. The government should put a limit on certain things Charlie Hebdo publishes. Why add so much fuel to an already out of hand fire? Freedom of the press can be expressed in so many other