Charlie Hebdo magazine’s editor and another journalist have distanced themselves from the Prophet cartoon contest in Texas that came under attack by two gunmen on Sunday, stating that they were against racism.
Gerard Biard, editor of the magazine whose staff members were gunned down by two gunmen in January, said Charlie Hebdo had ‘nothing to do’ with the people behind the controversial ‘Draw the Prophet’ contest.
On Sunday, two gunmen opened fire at the Muhammad Art Exhibit event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, where theAmerican Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) had organised a contest to draw cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
While the gunmen were killed before they could do harm, comparisons were drawn with the January attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris.
“There is absolutely no comparison,” Jean-Baptiste Thoret, the magazine’s film critic said on PBS, according to AFP, which cited an advance transcript on Monday.
“You have a, as you said, a sort of anti-Islamic movement (in Texas)… the problem of Charlie Hebdo is absolutely not the same,” Thoret said.
Thoret had survived the Charlie Hebdo attack as he was late to work.
“It was just a question of criticizing, you know, all the kinds of religions, and not mentioning people in particular. It had nothing to do with that really,” he added.
Biard said the magazine only drew the Prophet if there was a mention in the news.
“We don’t organize contests. We just do our work. We comment on the news. When Mohammed jumps out of the news, we draw Mohammed. But if he didn’t, we didn’t,” Biard said.
“We fight racism. And we have nothing to do with these people,” he said, referring to the Texas event.
Pamela Geller, president of AFDI which organised the Prophet cartoon contest, is known to be an outspoken critic of Muslim extremism, and is often tagged as an Islamophobic.
She also heads the movement ‘Stop Islamization of America’.
Before Sunday’s attack, she was most recently in the news for winning the right to put up the controversial bus ads refering to ‘Muslims killing Jews’ on New York City buses.
The ads, funded by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group referred to as anti-Muslim, show a man in a scarf next to the words “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”.
dont make excuses for our 1st amendment right!!
if the thin skinned Mooslimes cant take it ,, then its time to pack it in and go back home .. we speak our minds here and the last time i checked its not illegal to be a racist
we make fun of every one and every thing ,, either grow a pair or GTFO of my country
“The ads, funded by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group referred to as anti-Muslim, show a man in a scarf next to the words “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”.”
Nothing says Zionist organization like one that post ads saying, “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”.
“Pamela Geller, president of AFDI which organised the Prophet cartoon contest, is known to be an outspoken critic of Muslim extremism, and is often tagged as an Islamophobic.
She also heads the movement ‘Stop Islamization of America’.”
Let’s call a spade a spade here.
She’s a filthy POS Zionist scumbag c#nt of a jew, and should be burned at the stake for the witch she is.
Pam Geller very well might be Mossad, much like Rita Katz & SITE. Much like the dual-Israeli citizens that set up a beachhead in our government.
There’s an interesting article on her by Jim Stone now.
“Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists Distance Themselves from Pamela Geller’s ‘Draw the Prophet’ Contest”
Of course they do…connecting the dots back to the ‘jews’ is getting easier.
Charlie Hebdo has bought by rothschild in 2014
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/just-a-coincidence-charlie-hebdo-was-sold-to-the-rothschild-famil
Here a ‘jew’ there a ‘jew’ everywhere a ‘jew’ ‘jew’.
So, which ‘jew’ is in control of the baltimore circus?
-flek