zondag 11 januari 2015

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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