Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
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As if the outrage against the anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims" wasn't enough, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday published an issue containing several caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The move seems likely to further inflame passions incited earlier this month in the Muslim world by the release of a trailer for a strikingly Islamophobic film in the US.
Not to be outdone, Germany's leading satire magazine Titanic is likewise jumping into the fray with an Islam issue of its own, set for publication later this month. The cover story imagines what it might look like if Germany's embattled former first lady, Bettina Wulff, were to make a Muhammad film of her own. Many are concerned that the publication could make Germany even more of a target of Muslim anger than it already is. » | Interview conducted in German by Sebastian Hammelehle | Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
RT.COM: A French satirical magazine has published controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday as worldwide protests continue against a US film. France announced it would close embassies and schools in around 20 countries, fearing violence.
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published the caricatures on Wednesday, saying the illustrations would "shock those who will want to be shocked." Nude illustrations of Mohammed were included among the various caricatures in the release. Meanwhile, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Parisian kiosks sold out all copies of the magazine almost as soon as it hit the shelves. Charlie Hebdo’s website went down soon after the issue was published. » | Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Germany's cult New Year's Eve show 'Dinner For One' – where an increasingly drunken waiter tries to keep up with the demands of his eccentric mistress – has been reworked to feature German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy as her servant.
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
The tradition combines left-wing radicalism with a provocative scurrility that often borders on the obscene.
Back in the 18th Century, the target was the royal family, and the rumour-mongers wrought havoc with tales - often illustrated - of sexual antics and corruption at the court at Versailles.
Nowadays there are new dragons to slay: politicians, the police, bankers and religion. Satire, rather than outright fabrication, is the weapon of choice.
But that same spirit of insolence that once took on the ancien regime - part ribaldry, part political self-promotion - is still very much on the scene.
Charlie Hebdo is a prime exponent.
Its decision to mock the Prophet Muhammad may be called courageously principled or dangerously irresponsible. What is undeniable is that it is entirely consistent with its historic raison d'etre [sic].
Urge to challenge
As a newspaper, Charlie Hebdo suffers from constant comparison with its better-known and more successful rival, Le Canard Enchaine [sic].
Both are animated by the same urge to challenge the powers-that-be.
But if Le Canard is all about scoops and unreported secrets, Charlie is both cruder and crueller - deploying a melange of cartoons and an often vicious polemical wit. » | Hugh Schofield | BBC News | Paris | Wednesday, November 02, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue.
The fiercely anti-clerical magazine said the move, which included renaming the publication “Sharia Hebdo”, was intended to "celebrate" the victory of Islamist party Ennhada in Tunisia's election.
Charlie Hedbo's editor-in-chief, known as Charb, told France Info radio: "We no longer have a newspaper. All our equipment has been destroyed or has melted."
No injuries have been reported[.]
A single Molotov cocktail was thrown at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris’s 20th arrondissement at around 1am. The ensuing fire was rapidly put out, but a large amount of material in the office was destroyed, police said.
“We cannot, today, put together a paper,” said Charb. “But we will do everything possible to do one next week. Whatever happens, we’ll do it. There is no question of giving in,” he said, adding that the magazine is filing a legal complaint against persons unkown.
According to Europe 1 radio, police are searching for two suspects seen near the scene.
Charlie Hebdo's website has also been hacked with a message in English and Turkish cursing the magazine.
The message said: "You keep abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech.
"Be God's curse upon you!" » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Wednesday, November 02, 2011-11-02
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THE GUARDIAN: French magazine offices petrol-bombed after it prints Muhammad cartoon: Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is burned out by 1am petrol bomb attack on the day 'sharia' edition was to hit news stands » | Angelique Chrisafis in Nice | Wednesday, November 02, 2011
LE FIGARO: Un incendie criminel ravage
le siège de Charlie Hebdo : Les locaux parisiens du journal satirique, qui sort aujourd'hui un numéro sur la charia, ont été attaqués au cocktail molotov. Son site Internet a par ailleurs été piraté. » | Par lefigaro.fr | mercredi 02 novembre 2011
REUTERS FRANCE: Les locaux de l'hebdomadaire Charlie Hebdo incendiés : PARIS - Un incendie s'est déclaré dans les locaux parisiens de l'hebdomadaire satirique Charlie Hebdo dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi sans faire de victimes, a déclaré à Reuters une source policière, alors que le magazine publie un numéro renommé "Charia Hebdo". ¶ Selon le directeur de la publication de Charlie Hebdo, Stéphane Charbonnier, l'incendie, qui a détruit la rédaction du journal, a été provoqué par un cocktail Molotov. » | Marine Pennetier et Matthias Blamont, édité par Patrick Vignal | mercredi 02 novembre 2011
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Das französisches Satire-Magazin "Charlie Hebdo" ist Ziel eines Anschlags geworden: Unbekannte schleuderten einen Molotow-Cocktail in das Büro der Redaktion. Die Zeitschrift zeigt in einem Sonderheft zum Wahlerfolg der Islamisten in Tunesien den Propheten Mohammed auf dem Cover.
Paris - Für die Redaktion der satirischen Wochenzeitung "Charlie Hebdo" war es ein kleiner Scherz: Ihre Sonderausgabe zum Wahlsieg der islamistischen Partei al-Nahda in Tunesien hatte sie kurzerhand in "Scharia Hebdo" unbekannt, dazu gibt es auf dem Cover eine Darstellung des Propheten Mohammed. "100 Peitschenhiebe, wenn Sie sich nicht totgelacht haben", steht dazu neben Mohammed in einer Sprechblase. Der Prophet war zudem zu einer Art Chefredakteur ernannt worden. Man habe damit den Sieg der al-Nahda in Tunesien "feiern" wollen, hieß es. » | heb/ala/hen/dpa/AFP | Mittwoch 02. November 2011
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My comment:
Newspaper columnists should be outraged by what happened in France today. But no; they'd rather appease. It's all rather pathetic. How many newspapers have had the guts to print the cartoons? How many newspapers have had the guts to print the front page of "Charia Hebdo"? As things stand, everyone is sh** scared of Muslims. At this rate, all the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died for will soon be gone – for ever! – © Mark
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: The dismissal of a pair of political satirists is seen as one more move in the President’s campaign to control the fourth estate
Most of the two million listeners who tuned in to hear French political satirists Stéphane Guillon and Didier Porte thought their routines were hilarious. Not so President Nicolas Sarkozy, who found their sendups of politicians, including himself, “insulting, vulgar and nasty.”
As it often goes when France’s media and government clash, Mr. Sarkozy’s view prevailed. And so Mr. Guillon and Mr. Porte signed on one recent morning to announce they had been fired from public broadcaster France Inter radio.
“Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Total clear-out sale of satirists,” Mr. Guillon railed in his farewell sketch. “My chances of being on the air again next year are about as good as the chance the French team will make the second round of the World Cup.”
Although the two comics maintained their humour until the end, their firing has raised serious new concerns about political interference in the French media. Continue reading and comment >>> Anita Elash | Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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THE TELEGRAPH: French Radio Station Fires Political Satirist: France's fiercest and most popular satirist, who has become the scourge of President Nicolas Sarkozy and top politicians, has been fired from the country's leading current affairs radio programme, sparking cries of political censorship. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: France's fiercest and most popular satirist, who has become the scourge of President Nicolas Sarkozy and top politicians, has been fired from the country's leading current affairs radio programme, sparking cries of political censorship.
Two million listeners tuned into Stéphane Guillon's weekday 7.55am slots on France Inter, its equivalent of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, in which he has savaged public figures, both Left and Right for the past two and a half years.
Top political figures, including Mr Sarkozy, had been calling for his head for months, as they believe he has overstepped the mark between humour and insults. He says he has merely returned political satire to its rightful place in France, whose "bling" President he has thanked for single-handedly reviving the genre.
Mr Guillon's dismissal inevitably raised questions of political interference, as the head of Radio France – the public radio group running seven public stations – is directly nominated by Mr Sarkozy, and the head of France Inter is a friend of the President's wife.
It comes days after Mr Sarkozy summoned the editor-in-chief of Le Monde to the Elysée and reportedly threatened to remove state aid if he sold the prestigious newspaper to a group of Left-wing businessmen.
Jean-Luc Hees, the head of Radio France, announced yesterday that Mr Guillon would not be returning to the airwaves after the summer break. He said: "Humour must not be confiscated by little tyrants." Despite the huge audience figures, he said: "this comedy slot has been a failure" and was of "great intellectual poverty".
"If humour is reduced to insults, I cannot tolerate it for others, nor for myself," he said, saying Mr Guillon had "spat" on him in his sketches. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Rory Bremner, the political impressionist, said he fears joking about Islam could lead to his death due to the "chilling" issue of fundamentalism.
Bremner said self-censorship was the biggest obstacle today for comedians addressing topical issues, due to fears of retribution by extremists.
His comments came as he discussed the future of satire with Sir David Frost on a BBC documentary, Frost on Satire, to be broadcast on Thursday.
He said: "The greatest danger now is that one of the toughest issues of our time is religion.
"When [I'm] writing a sketch about Islam, I'm writing a line and I think, 'If this goes down badly, I'm writing my own death warrant there.' Because there are people who will say, 'Not only do I not think that's funny but I'm going to kill you' – and that's chilling." >>> Nick Collins | Tuesday, June 15, 2010
This is proof, if indeed proof is at all needed, that Islam DOES NOT BELONG here in the WEST. Western culture and Islamic culture are TOTALLY and UTTERLY immiscible. In other words, they are like oil and water: they just DO NOT MIX. Ergo, all these Muslims should NEVER have been allowed in to the West to destroy ALL we stand for and hold dear.
Yes there are perfectly good Muslims. The problem is this: At no time can one be sure that today’s moderate (i.e. non-pratising) Muslim won’t turn into tomorrow’s fundamentalist. I have witnessed many such transformations.
The politicians who have allowed this to happen, who have sown the seeds of our own destruction, mostly left-wing, social-engineering types, should be punished severely for their crimes against our broad-minded civilization. – © Mark
Thursday, June 19, 2008
NEWS.COM.AU: A DANISH appeals court has rejected a suit filed by seven Muslim organisations against newspaper editors who in 2005 first published a dozen controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The appeals court judges ruled that the caricatures, which have since sparked angry and in some cases deadly protests across the Muslim world, did not aim to insult followers of Islam, as the plaintiffs had charged.
One of the cartoonists is still in hiding under police protection following death threats.
The seven Muslim organisations, all based in Denmark, had accused the Jyllands-Posten daily's chief editor and culture editor of wilfully offending believers by printing the "offensive and degrading" drawings that "depict the prophet as bellicose and criminal, establishing a clear link between Mohammed and war and terror". Prophet Cartoons ‘Did Not Aim to Insult’ >>> | June 19, 2008
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Danish Appeals Court Rejects Lawsuit against Newspaper that Published Prophet Cartoons >>> | June 19, 2008
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