CNN: Pusillanimous twits for not showing the cover of Charlie Hebdo (look up the word)...

CHARLIE HEBDO the satirical French magazine has published a new edition after the massacre at its offices.

The magazine cover has a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad holding a sign saying “I am Charlie” which most of the people in the world were holding, with a caption stating that “All is forgiven”…Muhammad is crying.

The cartoon tried to convey that the journalists at Charlie Hebdo “forgive” the terrorists and that even Muhammad is crying in sympathy with those slain; that makes him unhappy with what the terrorists did.

CNN chose not to show the cover of the magazine and that just pissed me off to no end; USA Today did because it had news value and that is what a fucking news organization is supposed to do.

I will agree that some of the cartoons that Charlie Hebdo puts out are not fit to print in family newspapers; they are just too obscene but this cover, coming especially at this historic time is very tame.

The problem, I suppose, is that some Muslims are offended by the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad and CNN did not want to offend them???

All religious people are offended by a sarcastic portrayal of their religion or of their religious leaders…so what…that does not mean that such portrayals can be banned by them as they have no right to do that.

The Muslims have been known to issue death warrants against people or organizations that do not abide by “their” rules of behavior and obviously some of these death warrants have been carried out trying to “avenge” the Prophet Muhammad.

The only way to stop this kind of thinking and behaving is to totally ignore these people and their demands and publish what one wants as is allowed in our culture under our tenet of free speech; we cannot bend to intimidation.

The pope has said that killing in the name of religion is wrong but he also added that insulting someone’s faith is also wrong. Well it may be in poor taste and even rude to insult someone’s faith but it’s not against the law and it is not “wrong” as the word is defined; it is simply someone’s opinion.

The march in Paris with all those world leaders joining hands in support of free speech was a bunch of hypocritical bullshit. Many of those world leaders jail journalists for publishing things they don’t like…Turkey, Egypt, etc.

This whole debate about “hate” speech can get out of hand and must be carefully monitored but who will monitor those monitoring the speech…see the problem.

Our Founding Fathers pledged to defend the right to free speech and the right to practice one’s own religion as the basis of our Constitution. 

CNN is obviously a pusillanimous news agency more concerned with its ratings (which are falling) and not with the principles of its profession…reports the NEWS dipshits!