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Originally Posted by jennyjuniper
I know it's a good long while now since Charlie Habdo (don't know if that's the right spelling) was murdered because of his cartoons, but yesterday I came across a video on Youtube of a guy called Mark Steyn giving a lecture in Copenhagen called 'The Danish Muhamad cartoon crisis in retrospect'.
Mark Steyn said something that shocked me. He said that when the magazine of Charlies work came out, the police went to British newsagents asking for names and addresses of people who had ordered a copy of this magazine.
It sounds a bit over the top to me, yet Mark Steyn seems to be a respected public speaker.
Does anyone else know more about this?
Is anyone else worried about this?
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Don't really know much about this Jenny But if police did indeed attempt to get the names and addresses of people who ordered the magazine I would question the legality of that. That would sound very much like a police state attempting to control peoples' thoughts under pressure by religious leaders and left-wing propaganda.
I did note however that in a case (Mosque of Paris v Val 2007) where a French mosque Took legal proceedings against the magazines chief-editor, Phillips Val, based on three cartoons, one depicting Muhammad carrying a bomb in his turban, he was acquitted with a finding that it was fundamentalists, rather than Muslims, who were being ridiculed in the cartoons. And rightly so. We really can't allow this kind of extreme religious sensitivity dictate how we think and express our thoughts.