Freedom of Speech: Islam Goes Apeshit over Charlie Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons Repub, Quran Eating, and Successful Critical Analysis

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> And 2006 and 2020...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo

Here we see Erdogan, the violent Islamic dictator, wannabe
next Caliph, forced converter of world reknowned churches
into mosques, and general authoritarian asshole...
Persecuting Hebdo journos for cartoons...
Such will quite clearly be your life under Islam...

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/03/28/turkey-prosecutes-french-journalists-for-cartoon-mocking-erdogan/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/1616837841-turkish-prosecutor-indicts-french-journalists-over-caricature
https://jonathanturley.org/2016/07/21/turkish-government-orders-1577-deans-to-resign-in-the-expanding-crackdown-after-the-coup-attempt/

Turkey Prosecutes French Journalists For Cartoon Mocking Erdogan

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

In 2015, I wrote a Washington Post column criticizing the world
leaders who marched for free speech and the free press after the
massacre of editors with from the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo,
particularly the vehemently anti-free speech and anti-free press
president of Turkey Recep Tavyip Erdogan. The editors were murdered
because the magazine published a cartoon of Mohammad. Seeing the
authoritarian Erdogan at the front of the march was the ultimate
mocking of these deaths and proof that world leaders cared little for
these rights or the 12 dead. Not only did Erdogan’s government follow
the march by prosecuting a cartoonist, but now it is seeking long
prison sentences for four Hebdo journalists for a cartoon mocking
Erdogan.

Erdogan’s authoritarian impulse is only matched by his vanity and
sensitivity to criticism.  In this case, Hebdo published a cartoon
last year depicting Erdogan looking up a woman’s skirt while drinking
beer in his underwear and saying “Ooh, the Prophet.” His government is
now seeking four years sentences.

The four journalists have been identified as cartoonist Alice Petit
and three managers of the famous magazine - Gerard Biard, Julien
Serignac and Laurent Sourisseau. They are charged with the crime of
publishing an image that is  “vulgar, obscene and insulting.”

Such publications, even cartoons, are deemed exceptions to free speech
or the free press by Erdogan’s government - an exception that
obviously swallows both rights.

We have followed the rapid destruction of the secular government and
civil liberties in Turkey under the authoritarian rule of Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan used a failed coup to push his
effort to create a de facto Islamic regime and to complete his work in
arresting his critics, including forcing the resignation of thousands
of secular academics, and suspending all civil liberties in a
proclaimed state of emergency.

While he has been embraced as an ally, Erdogan opposes the core rights
that define our nation. Unfortunately, since the 2015 massacre, many
in the United States have move closer to Erdogan’s view of free speech
and the free press in calling for greater censorship and speech
regulation. Indeed, leading academics had the integrity recently to
declare that they believe that “China is right” about censorship.

This prosecution is the true face of not just Erdogan but the growing
movement against free speech.