The trial of satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” began Wednesday, February 7. The paper was sued by several Muslim organizations for having published the infamous Danish caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in February 2006. According to the plaintiffs, the paper committed “a deliberate act of aggression intended to insult Muslims”. The suit was brought against two…
Le proc_s visant l’hebdomadaire satirique Charlie Hebdo, poursuivi pour avoir publi_ des caricatures de Mahomet en f_vrier 2006, s’est ouvert mercredi 7 f_vrier au tribunal de grande instance de Paris. Selon les plaignants, l’Union des organisations islamiques de France, la Grande Mosqu_e de Paris et la Ligue islamique mondiale, l’hebdomadaire, en publiant ces caricatures danoises,…
La Justice peut-elle garantir la ” d_fense de la dignit_ du culte musulman ” ? Le pr_sident du Conseil fran_ais du culte musulman (CFCM), _galement recteur de la Grande Mosqu_e de Paris, Dalil Boubakeur en est persuad_. Le proc_s qui s’ouvre, mercredi 7 f_vrier, contre Charlie Hebdo, suite _ la publication par le journal des…
Can the French justice system guarantee the “defense of the dignity of the Muslim religion”? The president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) thinks so. The CFCM president is Dalil Boubakeur, who is also rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris. One illustration, he says, is the court case which begins Wednesday,…
One year after the publication of the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in the conservative newspaper Jyllands Posten, the critique of Islam has never been so popular in Denmark. In their publication, Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow describe islamism as a “totalitarian ideologie, mortally dangerous” that they compare to nazism and communism. {(continued below in…
