I am NOT Charlie!

I'm almost out of sick-bags here watching and listening to the vomit-inducing humbuggery of the Left as they bleat away in support of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who, with malice aforethought, deliberately insulted other people's most sensitive religious beliefs, not once, not twice but three times.  The wailing, flailing and breast-beating by the Left looks and sounds like, well, an Arab funeral.

Now let me be clear, I stand four-square behind your right to be rude about anyone or anything but, at the same time, I really do wish you would not!  As I constantly remind commenters on various Left-wing blogs I grace with my presence - sorry, did you say something? - resorting to streams of insults achieves absolutely nothing positive and much that is negative.  An acerbic, even fierce, argument can be conducted without resource to football ground language.

So, whilst "any man's death diminishes me' - although, now I think about it I'm not sure that's quite true, so let us just say that some diminish me a lot less than others!  Thus, the death of the main progenitors of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons leaves me shrugging in indifference.  They knew the risk they were running, indeed, one of the widows was quoted as saying that her husband fully expected to be killed.  So, got that one right, then!

But now let us return to the Left-wing humbugs howling their support for the right to be insulting and offensive.  OK, my little Lefties, try these:

Fucking niggers!

Arabs shag camels!

Ed Miliband is a retard!

"Chinky-chonks" - which just got someone into trouble!

Immigrants leech off us indigents!

'Global Warmers' have all suffered lobotomies!

Is all that OK with you 'Guardianistas'?  I mean, is it insulting and offensive enough?  I could do a lot better if you really want me to.  Ah, I see, you didn't really mean the right to be rude to anyone, just to those you don't like - gotcha'!  Perhaps in future you should stick to insulting those soppy Christians, they never retaliate, they just pray for you - suckers!

  

Comments

[Dom]

David, I think you're right to criticize the leftists, especially those on american campuses, where some precious snowflake always succeeds in shouting down some speaker, like Ayan Hirsi Ali.

But I think you're wrong to criticize the Hebdo cartoonists. Islam is a creed that draws out huge hordes of mindless terrorists that rampage through the streets and kill anyone in sight. It has happened often. It is happening now in the phenomenon known as ISIS. The Danish cartoons were illustrative. Three of them were actually drawn by the imams. Everything was a lie. How many people died? This is not a religion in the usual sense. It is a political creed out for power. It has no place in the west at all. It should be criticized, mocked, denigrated. All my respect goes to the Hebdo cartoonists.

[Philo Vaihinger]

Left comment has backed off unmitigated worship and has joined right comment in being more critical, partly like you in opposition to gratuitous offensiveness but also (no surprise) charging CH with racism because, after all, some Muslims are not actually white and none are, you know, really white, like us euro-whites.

Possibly excepting the Irish, I suppose.

And, of course, hate speech.

Some Imam somewhere rightly pointed out the hypocrisy of the Europeans on this point, given so many have already surrendered their absolute freedom to leftists who demanded first that Holocaust denial be criminalized and later much broader prohibitions.

So, given all that, why not criminalize mockery of Mohammed?

That's a slippery slope Europe is on, eh?

[Whitewall]

David, nicely written. I think I can be as offensive as the next guy but it is Saturday so I won't. All of us in the modern west are conducting ourselves in every way by the speech and even thought codes set down by the "intellectual" Left. It doesn't even matter whether a country has an operating Leftist government at the moment. The momentum carries on through the corrupted institutions that the Left marched through decades ago.

To end this malformed western disability, it will take many monstrous events like Paris. In many places, it may even take some people who are a bit more rough than our current political classes. None of this ends well.

[Whitewall]

This brave woman is talking sense and the Left hates her..http://www.wsj.com/articles/ayaan-hirsi-ali-how-to-answer-the-paris-terror-attack-1420672114?mod=trending_now_9

[Lawrence Duff]

Bullseye Pops!

You're in company, not good company, but company, nevertheless: -

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4613491,00.html

The Hebdo crew wanted the French National Front banned a few years back.

Who's Charlie?

SoD

[Lawrence Duff]

Charlie's obviously not 25% of the French population - they all voted National Front and are not invited to the national commemoration and mourning event.

Oh dear. It's what I always said. The French just don't know how to do Liberty, do they? After all, whoever gave away the Statue of Liberty as a gift to America revealed the true nature of their understanding of Liberty symbolically by that action at that time, and of course, by all their other actions in the name of Liberty around that time too.

Lord SoD

[Dom]

They came after Charlie Hebdo and I said nothing, because "I am not Charlie". Is that what you are saying?

[jimmy glesga]

I have to say that considering allah and this prophet is all imaginary and was invented to keep the masses docile and still does then the killings make sense in that respect
Left or right is irrelevant what we need is sensible people that will have the courgage to start the repatriation from our Western nations of muslims back to their ancestral shitholes. And I am a liberal person.

[Lawrence Duff]

"They came after Charlie Hebdo and I said nothing, because "I am not Charlie". Is that what you are saying?"

Nope. The cartoonists at Hebdo were perfectly entitled to their illiberal view that the National Front should be banned, or that holocaust denial should be censored, or that counter-warmists should be silenced.

They are equally entitled to the hypocritical claim that they are Liberals.

I'm saying that "I'm not Charlie", because that hypocrisy and besmirchment of Liberty is exactly so, but I'm not proscribing it, because if I were to, then I would be Charlie.

SoD

[Lawrence Duff]

"what we need is sensible people that will have the courgage to start the repatriation from our Western nations of muslims back to their ancestral shitholes"

I read somewhere that the terrorists were on a "no fly" control order.

Why?

These guys want to leave the West and go to their "ancestral shitholes" and kill each other.

Why are we stopping them?

SoD

[Furor Teutonicus]

XX Why are we stopping them? XX

A classic case whereby "closing the stable door after the horse has bolted," is deffinately in order, and desireable.

Better still, stuff them all onto RAF Hercules, and drop them off where they want to go.

[Tammly]

As a firm 'man made global warming' refusenick, I'm in full agreement with your piece. Nothing could be contrived to be more insulting to me, from a Jewish family, than to be conflated with a holocaust denier; I have experienced being bundled out of a job interview for expressing my view in a personal section of the interrogation. So much for freedom of speech. Je suis ne Charlie pas!

[jimmy glesga]

Lawrence those muslims that leave to fight for the almighty one and manage to return should be handed back to Assad. He will dispose of the problem in his normal tradition.
And if we do this then watch all the outraged muslims and lefties hitting the cobbles.