Don't know if posted already.
French cartoonist Sine on trial on charges of anti-Semitism over Sarkozy jibe
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.
"L'affaire Sine" followed the engagement of Mr Sarkozy, 22, to Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, the Jewish heiress of an electronic goods chain. Commenting on an unfounded rumour that the president's son planned to convert to Judaism, Sine quipped: "He'll go a long way in life, that little lad."
A high-profile political commentator slammed the column as linking
prejudice about Jews and social success.
Charlie Hebdo's editor, Philippe Val, asked Sinet to apologise but he refused, exclaiming: "I'd rather cut my balls off."
Mr Val's decision to fire Sine was backed by a group of eminent intellectuals, including the philosopher Bernard-Henry Lévy, but parts of the libertarian Left defended him, citing the right to free speech.
Last week, the anti-capitalist, anti-clerical Sine, who recently founded his own weekly magazine, Sine Hebdo, took Claude Askolovitch, the journalist who first accused him of anti-Semitism, to court for slander in a separate case.
"When I heard that I was being treated as anti-Semitic, my blood ran cold," he said during the trial, adding that if Mr Askolovitch had turned up in person, "it is not a trial he would have had but a head butt."
Sine is the defendant in Tuesday's court case in Lyon, southern France. The plaintiff is the anti-racism and anti-Semitism group, Licra.
The issue of anti-Semitism, already sensitive in a country still marked by the Alfred Dreyfus affair - the Jewish army captain wrongly accused of spying in the 19th century – has become even more charged in recent weeks due to Israel's Gaza offensive; France was hit by a series of anti-Semitic acts, including firebomb attacks on synagogues.
The young Mr Sarkozy, who is now the leader of his father's party in the president's old fiefdom, the chic Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, has since married. He has denied converting to Judaism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...arges-of-anti-Semitism-over-Sarkozy-jibe.html
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The irony.
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P.S. It's not a recent event. Happened to a member of Charlie Hebdo, by Charlie Hebdo.
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rebel is one of the most civil people here, disagree all you want with him, but if you dont stop with the insults on top of the infractions you will get thread banned
He's polite and does never insult people who disagree with him but his points are almost always irrelevant and fallacious. Very annoying to read his posts.
And can you please ban Rus from posting pics? Every third pic tends to contradict the previous two.
It's also not only an Arab problem. It's a Muslim in the third world problem. The fix will take time. A few years ago I'd have been horrified seeing the cartoons (Not enough to condone the attacks obviously), but not anymore. Learning and accepting how others around the world live is part of that education. Sadly that is extremely difficult while living in the Middle East or for that matter in parts of the third world with a sizeable Muslim population. We are brought up with a tight grip on what is acceptable to be questioned and what is not. I'll be honest, if it weren't for Tuz and the wide variety of white trash, regular niggers, sand niggers and mehicans here I'd not have learned half the things I did about acceptance of other cultures.
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We're all going to hell anyway.
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