French embassies, consulates and international schools in 20 Muslim countries all closed their doors yesterday for the time being. They are frightened of a violent backlash over cartoons published in Charlie Hebdo, a Paris based weekly. Cartoons show the Mohammed naked which I can understand knowing a little about the religion would be offensive. I think we know peaceful protest would not be the outcome, so why go out of your way to offend other races and religions. France has a 4 million strong Muslim community and sadly within that group there will be some ' mad militants' and others around the world. People are dying because of Charlie Hebdo's arrogance and intolerance. That is my point of view but if you disagree you can email taglines82@gmail.com and give your point of view.
Oh! gosh ,a totally different point of view on home ground. Malcolm thinks we should have the freedom and right to do this with out murdering people around the world and it smacks of the threats to Salman Rushdie and the fatwa imposed on him in 1989. ( ndlr) In newspapers when you see this it means "notice de la redaction" which means " editorial explanation."
