Re: Western standards regarding freedom of speech
This is how it should be but when it comes to Jews, something strange happens… one year ago in France;
France divided over ‘anti-semitic’ comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala - Telegraph
…performance by Dieudonne M’bala M’bala in Nantes was blocked by France’s highest court late on Thursday night, overturning a local judge’s ruling that the show should be allowed to go ahead.
The move was hailed as a victory over anti-Semitism by the French government, with Manuel Valls, the interior minister, stating “the law must be able to act”.
He said that the government would now attempt to stop his material circulating online.
“We cannot tolerate hatred of others, racism, anti-Semitism or holocaust denial,” Mr Valls said. “That is not France and the highest (administrative) court in the land has said as much and has said it clearly. This is a victory for the Republic.” …
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French cartoonist Sine on trial on charges of anti-Semitism over Sarkozy jibe - Telegraph
Maurice Sinet, 80, who works under the pen name Sine, faces charges of ** “inciting racial hatred” for a column he wrote last July in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The piece sparked a summer slanging match among the Parisian intelligentsia and ended in his dismissal from the magazine.**