Disrespect
is a fundamental right, Charlie Hebdo took it to the limit. Europe
took to the streets after the attack on the magazine, basically to
defend that very right to mock and insult.
The
Limburger adopted the Je Suis Charlie sign and took a stand pro
freedom of press. But the readers are confused. A couple of years
ago, cartoonist Ruben
Oppenheimer was fired because he didn't abide by the
newspaper's philosophy of ''keeping the church in the middle'',
as the editor, Huub Paulissen, put it in an e-mail to the cartoonist.
Cartoons
about the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church were censored, one
after another. Considered too disrespectful here in the South.
By the
way, not a single person started a protest when Oppenheimer was
terminated.
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