Writer Michael Ondaatje Boycotts PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by Phogg

Stolen from a news outlet comments section:

"Texas is where terrorists go to get outgunned at an art show."

Some places don't cotton to censorship by gun.

Reminds me of a scene from INTO THE LOOKING GLASS:
Horde of alien monsters chasing the hero, he stops at a gas station where a bunch of good old boys are prepping to go hunting. Suddenly enough guns pop out to equip a national guard batallion. Bye bye aliens.
Fun romp that one but the sequels are better.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by Rizla

Tout est pardonné, but only if you comment on Islam. Judaism is out of bounds. I find it hard to support a magazine that is so unbalanced.

WTF do you even bother writing something that is so demonstrably false?

CH has had plenty of covers and articles mocking Jews. And Christians, too.

CH got into trouble when a writer suggested that Jean Sarkozy was converting to Judaism for monetary gain; the problem was a defamation claim brought by Sarkozy in particular. And not the magazine's general portrayal of Jews in general.

Here are a couple of examples:

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[Dr. Drib]

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