"But the exercise of that right includes using good judgment,"īill Donahue of the Catholic League condemned the contest: "When you embolden people, when you empower people, the haters, you're going to get violence," he said. "Yes, of course, there is a First Amendment right and of course it’s very important," Van Susteren said. Fox Host Greta Van Susteren accused Geller of lacking "good judgment" and of putting police in danger. Support for AFDI's intellectually unsustainable provocation was not universal, even among a predictable constituency, America's right wing. While the initial inclination of many pundits, and politicians was to take Geller's side after the violence, a more nuanced and mature narrative soon emerged. The ADL "founded in 1913 to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," cannot by any stretch of the imagination be described as being pro-Muslim, knew exactly what it was doing when it named Geller and Spencer as bigots that promote, with Wilder, "a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam." Together they despoiled our Public Square. They wanted to incite and provoke, and from amidst an American community of millions of law-abiding Muslims two disaffected men emerged and threw their matches into the flammable pool of gasoline that Geller and Spencer had poured onto American soil. Pamela Geller and her cohort Robert Spencer, who are described by The American Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as "anti-Muslim bigots," and whose organizations are designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, knew exactly what they were doing when they organized their “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” Fortunately, the two men, well-armed and wearing body armor, were stopped and killed by police. In opposition was the violent criminal response of two Muslims who, offended by the cartoon contest portrayals of their Prophet, felt compelled to try and use violence to stop the AFDI event. On one side were inter-linked American fanatics Pamela Geller (AFDI, Atlas Shrugged) Robert Spencer (AFDI, Jihad Watch) and keynote speaker and provocateur Geert Wilders, Dutch parliamentarian and international anti-Islam activist. Two Muslim gunmen from Arizona were shot dead on Sunday while attempting to attack the “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” sponsored by American Freedom Defense Initiative President Pamela Geller, an extremely well-compensated anti-Islam activist and conspiracy theorist. Last week America witnessed such fanaticism in Garland, Texas. Meanwhile, the French government kept busy rounding up and arresting over 100 Muslims who had foolishly used their freedom of speech to express their support of the attacks." "Well, voila-the 7 million copies that were published following the killings did exactly that, triggering violent protests across the Muslim world, including one in Niger, in which 10 people died. "By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech, which in France is only illegal if it directly incites violence," he continued.
Ridiculing the non-privileged is almost never funny - it’s just mean." Great French satirists like Molière and Daumier always punched up, holding up the self-satisfied and hypocritical to ridicule. Satire punches up, against authority of all kinds, the little guy against the powerful. "Traditionally, satire has comforted the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable. After condemning the murders and violence, Trudeau said: In his acceptance speech Trudeau addressed the controversy surrounding the French Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. Forty years after becoming the first cartoonist to win a Pulitzer Prize, Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was recently honored with the prestigious George Polk career award - the first cartoonist to be so honored.
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