tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post7557411993947593737..comments2024-03-28T20:30:48.788+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Charlie encoreFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17164421976058482962015-01-13T01:13:21.652+00:002015-01-13T01:13:21.652+00:00"Imagine that 11 French bishops or 11 rabbis,..."Imagine that 11 French bishops or 11 rabbis, meeting together on a Monday morning, had been the victims, instead of 11 religion-ridiculing ultra leftists."<br /><br />I think we can all easily imagine that the response would have been very different, alas.Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72000746152377450932015-01-12T10:29:37.250+00:002015-01-12T10:29:37.250+00:00I hear that His Grace the Archbishop of Jos has as...I hear that His Grace the Archbishop of Jos has asked why the thousands of Nigerians slaughtered by Boko Haram should merit no proportionate outpouring of First World protest.<br /><br />I think that these self-congratulatory mass marches reduce protest against terror to the quest for the ultimate selfie… entendre intended.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84079863416827125402015-01-12T10:12:41.099+00:002015-01-12T10:12:41.099+00:00If I may encroach, Fr:
http://mistergog.blogspot.c...If I may encroach, Fr:<br />http://mistergog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-and-baptism-of-christ_11.html<br />Fr Thomas Planthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16937452994696714750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39625315851023026342015-01-12T01:42:10.984+00:002015-01-12T01:42:10.984+00:00Apparently, part of the population in France do re...Apparently, part of the population in France do realy believe that to demonstrate for or agaisnt something is equivalent as to fight for or agaisnt something.<br />Nothing will change, of course, and this kind of illusion will only lead to more terrorism. <br />I'm French and I'm certainly not Charlie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15603305085502984362015-01-12T01:23:36.325+00:002015-01-12T01:23:36.325+00:00Horst Wessel crossed my mind too.Horst Wessel crossed my mind too.Fr Seán Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432610859468495578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76222108258861392962015-01-12T01:09:16.215+00:002015-01-12T01:09:16.215+00:00My guess at a meta-narrative is something like:
W...My guess at a meta-narrative is something like:<br /><br />Western liberalism, with the growing presence of large immigrant Islamic populations, is finished. It cannot now function. It needs the mass rallies with homogenised brains repeating mantras about "not giving in" to hide the truth: that there is nothing left to do except, slowly, to crank up state power over individual liberty Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21826540909305771142015-01-12T00:48:13.290+00:002015-01-12T00:48:13.290+00:00The often wise, Dominic Lawson, sums up the matter...The often wise, Dominic Lawson, sums up the matter well with his piece in the Sunday Times. 'Non, je ne suis Charlie', he says because, like most of the British press, self preservation came an easy first when considering whether or not to insult Islam in his days as an editor. He questions the accuracy of those now claiming to be Charlie whilst not being willing to emulate Charlie'sLepantohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487748842744745860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45898851778491424132015-01-12T00:44:16.339+00:002015-01-12T00:44:16.339+00:00Imagine that 11 French bishops or 11 rabbis, meeti...Imagine that 11 French bishops or 11 rabbis, meeting together on a Monday morning, had been the victims, instead of 11 religion-ridiculing ultra leftists. I dare say a million Europeans wouldn't have crowded the streets of Paris in protest. But it is interesting to speculate on just what would have been the reaction. Hopefully, we shall never see the idea tested.Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16637694278004594039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12650072335540885652015-01-11T22:08:31.191+00:002015-01-11T22:08:31.191+00:00I think this is a good metanarrative (though I'...I think this is a good metanarrative (though I'm biased for reasons that should be clear): http://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/information-and-terror-attacks/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132674237614327721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-47639522083928657172015-01-11T20:28:56.581+00:002015-01-11T20:28:56.581+00:00I've taken the liberty of expanding the Diana ...I've taken the liberty of expanding the Diana parallel on my blog (with acknowledgements here).Eccleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00357168852208499013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8985036400255974702015-01-11T20:08:32.004+00:002015-01-11T20:08:32.004+00:00Arguably, the fate of the French magazine could be...<br /><br />Arguably, the fate of the French magazine could be interpreted as an empirical experiment in contrasting the reactions to media blasphemy of Christians and Muslims. There were numerous blasphemous cartoons against Christianity, especially Catholicism, but the only reactions were (unheeded) complaints, themselves an exercise in the freedom of expression secularists hold so dear. This Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70821543378328885682015-01-11T16:29:10.723+00:002015-01-11T16:29:10.723+00:00As in the events surrounding the death of Diana Sp...As in the events surrounding the death of Diana Spencer (which I remember as getting in the way of the cartoons I enjoyed watching after school in those days), we are being dominated by a contrived, media-driven grief. If you are not seen to be praising these Marxist "martyrs of liberty," you're seen to be a pariah, of being divisive. How the political elite came down upon Nigel Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.com