Charlie Hebdo sued by Muslims

Charlie Hebdo French cartoons: Complaint filed in Paris

Apparently, no one laughed at the Syrians and pointed out that if the cartoons incited hatred it was among the Muslims and if anything incited the French to hate Muslims it was their own inexcusable behavior.

So, let’s see, responding to a perfectly ordinary, unexciting event - the publication of these cartoons - they fly into an insane rage and then sue you for making them mad?

No, no.

That’s not what they mean.

At least I don't think it is.

Surely they mean CH has incited hatred of Islam and of Muslims among the non-Muslim French, and perhaps violence (none, anywhere, at this point) by those French against Muslims?

But only by taking all that “hate” and “violence” as referring to the hate felt by and the violence done by the Muslims rather than anything felt among or done by the non-Muslim French can anything in this charge be taken to be even remotely plausible.

And then, of course, it makes no sense at all.

Update 092812 at 1320 hrs EDT.

The French Minister of the Interior, during an inaugural speech at a new mosque in Strasbourg, told auditors in no uncertain terms France would expel those who preach hate, defy the Republic, or challenge its values.

Last week he forbade demonstrations in France against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

While his government was damned by American conservatives for proposing to tax the incomes of the rich at 75% it and the Minister got no credit for resisting Islamism, a favorite cause of the American right.

No doubt it did not help that in the same speech he said construction of additional mosques in France would be permitted.