How SHOULD Leftists feel about Drawing Prophet Muhammed?
395In light of the massive controversy around drawing Prophet Muhammed in France, I break down how I feel leftists should feel about this type of criticism of Islam.
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https://news.sky.com/story/france-and-islam-on-collision-course-as-emmanuel-macron-says-republics-laws-must-be-supreme-12118876
Sky News Reporting: "Emmanuel Macron is the focus of intense protests and criticism across the Muslim world. At the heart of the controversy is a clash between secular and religious values, but there may be more to it than that.
The French president's supporters say he is simply defending his country's secularism.
His angry critics say he has offended millions of Muslims and even accused him of trying to reshape Islam, thereby touching off resentment about France's colonial past.
France has a long tradition of staunch secularism. In 1905, a law entrenched the principle of laicite (secularism) in law.
Other laws protecting the right to blaspheme go back further - there was a determined effort to keep the church out of state affairs in the wake of the French Revolution.
So whereas in some countries cartoons showing the Prophet Muhammad in an unfavourable light might be banned by blasphemy laws, that is not the case in France, where it is legally permissible to denigrate a religion, if not an individual because of the religion they practise.
There is a very clear clash between those principles and the values of Islam which forbid any image of the Prophet, let alone those that mock or ridicule him."
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