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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 07:43 PM Jan 2015

"Democracy Now" Jumps into the Discussion about Terrorist Attack in France & Freedom of Speech

(Really good Discussions that are very similar to the questions about this Terrorist Attack that were addressed in DU "General Discussion" back and forth today. Both Discussions are Well Worth the Watch for DU News Junkies who love differing viewpoints to challenge our minds!)
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Scholar Tariq Ramadan, Harper's Rick MacArthur on Charlie Hebdo Attack & How the West Treats Muslims

Published on Jan 8, 2015
http://democracynow.org - France is in a state of mourning after the deadly attack on the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A massive manhunt is underway for the suspected gunmen, two French-born brothers of Algerian descent. Charlie Hebdo had come under threat and was firebombed in 2011 after publishing controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. We begin our coverage of the Paris attack with a discussion between two guests: Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals in Europe; and John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, which in 2006 became one of the first U.S. publications to reprint the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked international protests.



Watch all of the Democracy Now! coverage on the Charlie Hebo attack:
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/ch...


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Comics Legend Art Spiegelman & Scholar Tariq Ramadan on Charlie Hebdo & the Power Dynamic of Satire

Published on Jan 8, 2015
http://democracynow.org - We continue our coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris by looking at the magazine's background and its controversial history of satire. We are joined by two guests: Art Spiegelman, the renowned American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate whose Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" is considered one of the most important graphic novels ever published and one of the most influential works on the Nazi Holocaust; and Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and one of Europe's most prominent Muslim intellectuals.



Watch all of the Democracy Now! coverage on the Charlie Hebo attack:
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/ch...
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"Democracy Now" Jumps into the Discussion about Terrorist Attack in France & Freedom of Speech (Original Post) KoKo Jan 2015 OP
Thank you for posting this swilton Jan 2015 #1
 

swilton

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1. Thank you for posting this
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:05 PM
Jan 2015

I saw the full program on Democracy Now this morning. There is so much to this story that our 'sound-bite-obsessed' press is missing.

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