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My ‘Charlie Hebdo’ by Philippe Lançon | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

at that last meeting the subject of debate was none other than French jihadists. Tignous was by no means defending them but, true kid of the banlieues and survivor of poverty that he was, he wondered just what France had actually done to avoid creating these furious monsters, and launched into a magnificent rant on behalf of these latter-day misérables. It was as if suddenly his voice was reaching us from the time of the Paris Commune. Bernard Maris retorted that France had done plenty, had lavished tons of cash. The volume increased—at Charlie Hebdo this subject is all the more sensitive because everyone is horrified at the thought of being seen as racist or cynical
#France #free-speech #CharlieHebdo - nybooks.com

The Great Free Speech Experiment | The Weekly Standard

France’s momentary appearance on the world stage as a champion of free expression, after the execution of the beloved Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, made for a break in her relentless culture of repression of free speech, which she shares with most of Europe.
#France #free-speech - weeklystandard.com

Paris shootings: Terror, sadness but also strength - Telegraph

The dots are being connected now. On one of yesterday morning’s most popular radio talk shows, teachers from France’s problematic banlieues were saying how they’d tried to organise debates on the Charlie killings in their classes, only to hear the majority of their pupils justifying them. For years, another explained, it had become impossible to teach mid-20th century history in classes, for fear of starting mini-riots. “The Ministry of Education knows, but we get no help at all,” one teacher told the popular interviewer Jean-Jacques Bourdin.
#antisemitism #France #free-speech #hate-speech - telegraph.co.uk