What was the Catholic and Jewsh reaction to these Charlie Hebdo covers?

[VScott]

How did they respond?

(Can someone translate the text? I'm sure it's not flattering)

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[elleng]

1. Thoroughly obnoxious.

I hate this crap, from anyone, anywhere.

[monmouth4]

3. I fail to see one iota of humor in any of it. I'm sorry 12 people are dead but......n/t

[elleng]

4. Not a bit of humor, exactly.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. The Pope holds a condom up and says 'This is my body' caption- The Pope Goes Too Far

It's a bleak humor, but considered along with the fact that the Popes instruct their followers not to use condoms and that 1.5 million people a year die of AIDS in Africa alone I'm not sure slapstick guffaws are really possible. Looking for really funny humor about homophobia and anti science teachings that cause death might be asking for too much, no?

[Hekate]

2. Their reaction? They took up arms against blasphemy, of course.... No, wait.

European Catholics and Jews live in a diverse and assimilated Western culture with democratic ideals at its core. I'm sure in France they give a giant Gallic shrug.

Individuals may be disgusted at other peoples' individual expressions of the freedom of expression (and those cartoons are disgusting), but you notice the Pope isn't calling for a Crusade to wipe out either the Jews or the Muslims -- because IT'S NOT THE MIDDLE AGES ANY MORE. The Muslims who are terrorists in the 21st century still have their minds stuck in the barbarism of the Middle Ages. Muslims who are not terrorists are just trying to live their lives like the rest of us and send their kids to school.

[Bad Thoughts]

5. Which one is supposedly anti-Jewish?

Except for the representations of Rabbis, along with others, claiming special protection from criticism, there are no anti-Jewish images in themselves.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Second from bottom. "Must Not Mock". They satired all religion in a similar way.

[VScott]

9. Just a SWAG (scientifc wild assed guess),

But, given the portrayal of the other two major religions, it's probably safe to assume
that the inclusion of the Jewish cartoon characters was not intended to be flattering or
praise worthy...


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[MohRokTah]

6. Nobody was gunned down over those.

Freedom of Expression is not synonymous with Freedom from Criticism.

Criticism is cool, and had there been nothing but criticism about any Charlie Hebdo cartoons, WAY COOL!

But no, some assholes took so much offense they went and murdered people over it.

Not cool.

[MineralMan]

10. Dark Satire about Religion Is That Publication's Stock in Trade.

It's not supposed to be funny. Good satire is seldom funny, actually. It's just another way to look at the truth.

How people react to satire is a pretty good measure of their reaction to other things.

Nobody got killed for those images. Fundamentalist Muslims often act differently than fundamentalists of most religions, it seems. That's the lesson here, for whatever it's worth.

[JaneyVee]

11. The French reaction was to ban anti-Israel/pro-Palestine rallies.

[Brigid]

12. Filth. Pure filth.

Doesn't mean anybody should have been killed over it.

[smirkymonkey]

18. And some people would have the same reaction toward public displays of religion.

Again, doesn't mean anybody should be killed over it.

[backscatter712]

13. To some, any criticism of religion at all, especially their religion, is offensive.

Hell, I get my share of crap just for identifying as an atheist.

Religions have had millennia to mutate social norms to make criticism of their superstitions into severe obscenities.

[Hekate]

15. France has been a secular, anti-clerical (anti-institutional religions) society for a long long time

They are proud of it. It's part of their culture, and they came to it through much suffering and revolution.

I don't even want to know what they think of our public displays of piety, where every politician is required to invoke God in every speech, and damn near everyone who gets a microphone stuck in their face by the media is required to say, "It was a miracle. We are so blessed," even if every other person in their town was just killed by a tornado.

Satire can be rough stuff, not for the faint of heart. I find those cartoons disgusting, but to quote another Frenchman, "I will defend to the death their right to say it."

[Nye Bevan]

16. Pope Francis issued a fatwa against the cartoonists responsible.

And the Archbishop of Cantebury set up a training camp for Anglican terrorists and suicide bombers to respond to this outrageous blasphemy.

[VScott]

17. Armaments, chapter 2, verses 9 to 21...

[cwydro]

19. Oh, no doubt

there are Catholic and Jewish assassins on the way to kill anyone lucky enough to have survived the attack.