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German carnival bans Charlie Hebdo tribute float
2015-01-30
[Al Ahram] Germany's biggest carnival procession, which often includes edgy political satire, has banned a float paying tribute to the slain cartoonists of French magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
 due to security fears, organisers said.

The float design, selected in an online popular vote, featured a man dressed in black with an explosives belt and a drawn gun and a jester shoving a pencil down its barrel.

The carnival committee in the western city of Cologne said in a statement released late Wednesday that it backed the message of the float defending free speech and freedom of the press.

But it had received "messages from concerned locals which we take seriously", though organisers admitted there was "no indication" from the police of a credible terror threat.

"Carnival shouldn't make people worry -- we should be able to have a carefree celebration together," the statement added.

"We do not want a satirical float that curbs the freedom and light-hearted style of the carnival. For this reason we decided today to stop the construction of the 'Charlie Hebdo' float and not to allow it to join the Rose Monday procession" on February 16.

Some criticised the decision as a capitulation to holy warriors.

"I voted for the design and don't understand this move at all," the head of the state chapter of the Greens party, Sven Lehmann, said.

"How can there be broad participation in the selection process and then the result be summarily cancelled? If fear overcomes carnival, terror has won."

Cologne's carnival in the heart of Germany's predominantly Roman Catholic Rhineland is usually a potent mix of beer-soaked revelry and elaborately decorated floats that poke fun at politicians.

Previous send-ups have included then Iranian president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad in 2012 slamming a nuclear missile into the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
 headquarters in New York, the pope brandishing condoms, and a scandal-plagued German minister in a fighter plane crashing into Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
's chancellery with the words "Merkel's September 11".

Islamist gunnies rubbed out 12 people, including some of La Belle France's best-loved cartoonists, in an attack on the Gay Paree offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Muschi.

Yes, and no!

One of the reasons for having governments in the first place is to protect the rights and freedoms of residents from interference by foreign powers.

In the olden days Soviet leaders who commanded vast tank armies and a vast nuclear arsenal could be lampooned without fear.
Back then deterrence worked.

Unfortunately the Western political class has decided that in the case of Islam there's nothing wrong with finlandization and Rushdie rules in the West.

This fear is the logical result of a major dereliction of duty by Western political leadership.

Western citizens who violate Sharia rules are de facto opting for Gandhi style martyrdom. They accept the unjust consequences of their actions in order to make the general public aware of the injustice. This is the option the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists took.

I'm not asking the carnivalists to risk martyrdom.

The moral way out of this conundrum would be to cancel the entire parade.

There would be no danger because no islamofascist would object to the absence of such a parade.

And it would be an act of truth. The truth of submission to Sharia in the West would be acknowledged.

They're not pussies because they're not showing the Charlie Hebdo float.

They're pussies because they're pretending to be free when they're not.

They're objectively accomplices of the islamofascists because their actions contribute to the Western public's paralysis.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-30 17:03  

#3  Muschi.
Posted by: Anice Nim   2015-01-30 15:20  

#2  Erdogan's theocratic viceroy for Germany approves:

"I think it's very positive that this decision was made," said the chairman of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB). Just as the Muslim community in Germany respects the values of other people, he also expects "that one respects our values."

DITIB was one of the organizations participating in the islamic vigil (organized by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, which is a MB front organization.)

DITIB also organized Charlie Hebdo reenactments in front of newspaper and media offices in Germany a couple of days later.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-30 08:42  

#1  Surprise meter?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-30 03:40  

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