They burned an effigy
Once again people lose their damn minds over a long-dead guy who called himself a “prophet.”
Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, demanding a boycott of French goods amid a row over France’s tougher stance on radical Islam. They burned an effigy of President Emmanuel Macron, who has defended cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Police blocked the marchers from reaching the French embassy. Mr Macron has become a target in several Muslim-majority countries after his defence of French secularism.
Muhammad is gone; he’s been gone for centuries. There are more important things to worry about.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called for a boycott of French goods. In a televised speech, he said Muslims were now “subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II”. He said “European leaders should tell the French president to stop his hate campaign”.
But there is no lynch campaign. It’s the teacher who was murdered.
Humans: wasting their time on gods and prophets while children go hungry.
How hard does this have to be? You think abortions are immoral? Don’t have one. You think cartoons of Mo are blasphemous? Don’t draw them.
Hurt religious feelings. Hurt gender feelings. Hurt presidential (hah!) feelings. Wow. Is there no one who is adult enough to survive in a world that doesn’t always bow to their wishes?
What the Hell has happened to the BBC? It didn’t use to be this sloppy in its reporting. Macron did not defend cartoons of the prophet, he defended the rights of people in a secular society to say, draw,, make and/or show things without having to fear viopent retaliation from those who may not like those things.
Charlie Hebdo has a caricature of Erdoğan that the Turkish government is planning to sue them for. You can see it here:
https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-turkey-erdogan-macron-feud-2020-10
It’s lacking in taste, and not very polite, but no worse than the caricatures of Macron that you can see on banners in some of the protests. I can’t find an example of one on the web (my capacity for searching Turkish websites is rudimentary), but I expect they exist.
Incidentally, I doubt whether the link I gave is permanent.
That headline. “Charlie Hebdo, whose cartoons sparked terror attacks in France” – BLAME THE VICTIM again. The BBC and the Guardian do that whenever they mention any branch of this subject – Rushdie, Jyllands Posten, Charlie, anything.