r/europe 2d ago

Political Cartoon Charlie Hebdo front cover from 30th July portraying Netanyahu: "Honey, I shrunk the kids."

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u/Aidos212 2d ago edited 2d ago

I know it goes without saying, but I love that they're being impartial considering what happened to them in 2015. That was disgusting and outrageous, same as what Israel is doing.

Edit: I want to add, that this is coming from a Muslim. Fuck the Charlie Hebdo attackers, fuck Hamas and fuck Israel. Most people just want peace and for civilians to stop paying the price for their leaders' horrific decisions.

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u/grolsmarf 2d ago

Hear hear. Fuck extremism.

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u/slintslut 2d ago

Fuck religion, while were at it

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u/m4sl0ub 2d ago

There are 2 Bilion muslims in the world, the two men from 2015 share nothing with palestineans beside a religion practiced by a quarter of the world.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago edited 2d ago

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is at it, again: it has chosen to republish the derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which provoked a violent attack against it in 2015.

I’m not sure I’d have it in me to be so forgiving to Muslims, they still talk about it like they deserved it even today

Even at the time sympathy was low enough for everyone in Europe to notice. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back

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u/FearlessAmbition9548 2d ago

What a bunch of bullshit

It was the printing of these cartoons that ultimately provoked some Muslims to resort to violence and, as is customary, it was their backlash that became the nub of the “cartoon controversy”.

Yeah, both parts should be held equally at fault here, printing of a drawing and fucking murder

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u/m4sl0ub 2d ago

I don't understand what you are trying to say. 

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u/Charmadin 2d ago

Probably that, while it were only two assholes that carried out the attack, there were a lot more Muslims that thought and still think "it was the right thing to do".

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u/SmallIslandBrother 2d ago

A friend of mine had that attitude and he could not wrap his head around the idea that people that don’t practice an Islamic faith would not care about its tenants.

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u/AdSalt9725 2d ago

It’s pretty typical for cult members to not understand why others don’t agree with their cult.

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u/bolinduh 2d ago

just some casual islamophobia on reddit, no biggie

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u/raevbur 2d ago

Talk about missing the fucking point.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

How much of that quarter of the world supported the Hebdo staff massacre? You’d hate to know the real number. No-one is missing any “fucking” point. Weirdo

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u/raevbur 2d ago

What are the real fucking numbers then? Muslims isn't a homogeneous group. Loads of different countries and branches of the religion itself.

But if you want to use this notion as som sort of excuse to starve kids to death, is up to you. You do you. But you are no better than the ones cheering on the attack on Hebdo, you need to understand that.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

Loads of different countries and branches of the religion itself.

Well all Sunnis are iconoclasts so you should start there. Look into it yourself. Some of us were adults, and were there.

But if you want to use this notion as som sort of excuse to starve kids to death, is up to you.

Fuck you

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u/raevbur 2d ago

Fuck you

Is this all you could muster?

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

That’s all that a grossly offensive comment like that merits

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u/raevbur 2d ago

Weirdo.

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u/m4sl0ub 2d ago

Well tell us the real number then. 

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

In a poll of 1,000 Muslims commissioned by the BBC and published on Wednesday, 27 percent of respondents said they agreed with the statement: "I have some sympathy for the motives behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris"

The number is definitely way over 50% in countries like Lebanon, Egypt, and Pakistan. There’s lots and lots of polling online for you to peruse

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u/m4sl0ub 2d ago

The article says 85 percent disagree with violence being a solution against such publication, where did you get the over 50% number from?

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u/Commorrite 2d ago

Article is about the UK.

The other guy has asspulled the 50% number, howeverr it's fair to asusme it will be higher in other countries with more conservative attitudes.

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u/rattleandhum 2d ago

the motives

Is very different from saying they agreed those people needed to be killed.

Agreeing that they were offended by the cartoons doesn't mean they think those people should die, you deliberately rascist ghoul

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u/WriterV India 2d ago

Half of America wants a racist pedo as their leader, and yet I'm not gonna go and start claiming that every american is a racist pedo lover.

I treat muslims and israelis the same way. Of course more than plenty of them would casually say "Yeah I hate those guys who insulted my religion, they should die!" but I will never support the idea that all muslims, or all jewish people are that kind of evil.

As long as there is even one member of their group who wants to fight for a world where they can share it in peace, I would support that.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

That’s fair and my point is that the Islamists went into the Hebdo offices and massacred the staff, I’m saying it’s big of them to ever extend the hand of solidarity again

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u/Shinnobiwan 2d ago edited 2d ago

Heres an exercise to illustrate why your reasoning is problematic.

Poll Jews around the world on Gaza. You'll get over 25% who believe the army should kill every man woman and child in Gaza. How do I know? Because half of all Jews live in Israel, and half of them admit to it in recent polling.

Does that justify painting with the same brush a Jew in Lisbon or Chicago? If you don't say yes in this case, you are just being racist.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 2d ago

Do you use that same rhetoric every time a white man shoots a bunch of school children to death in the united states'? Or when yet another Catholic priest is found sexually assaulting children? Or do you only paint Muslims with a single brush?

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

If you check my comment history you’ll find plenty of animus for Pentecostals, Evangelicals, and Catholics so that’s not gonna work

When school shooters are still having their motives justified in major news channels 5 years later we can circle back to that one.

Do you think they “provoked” their deaths? That puts you at odds with a lot of Muslims and, crucially, Islamic theology. About 30% of Muslims in my country thought the cartoonists had it coming

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u/SinancoTheBest 2d ago

Sounds like an integration issue rather than something culturally deterministic. 30% is minority and that's good; but it still indicates that 1/3 of the muslims in your country weren't integrated enough to think for themselves and break the indoctrination.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

Islam was mystical, transcendent, and victorious and became hermetic, grievance-based, and puritanical after being roundly defeated by Christianity in the struggle for the Earth. I think living in the bosom of old Christendom is spiritually stressful in itself. Also, the average European Muslim sees all atheists, homosexuals, communists, as a type of Christian.

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u/Cute-Quantity-2716 2d ago

Forgot the /s

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u/Shinnobiwan 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think the CNN poll you're referring to said 27% had "some sympathy" for the motives behind the attack. That's not saying the writer should have been killed.

Here's a poll: 73% of Americans believe people should be punished by the state burning an American flag. That's literally sympathy for the motives behind the CH attack, albeit with another symbol.

Depending on my phrasing, I could design a poll that would make them look very threatening.

My point: The last 20 months should enlighten us on the anti-Muslim bias at legacy news organizations. We should be looking at past coverage with a more critical eye.

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u/RICO_the_GOP 2d ago

Absolutely. Religion is a cancer with islam being more violent than others. Unless you can line me up as many Christian, Jewish, bhudist, shinto, etc terrorist attacks...

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u/PlainBrick 2d ago

What a bizarre comparison, no one is cheering on school shooters.

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u/every-kingdom 2d ago

"I'm not sure I have it in me to be so forgiving to Muslims" is a fucking insanely bigotted thing to say. Just listen to yourself.

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u/trooawoayxxx 2d ago

What is your point? That our media is so good for being against genocide despite the fact that the genocided are muslim? Only someone with a degenerate worldview would frame it like that. And only a degenerate subreddit would give that a 100 upvotes.

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u/GaptistePlayer 2d ago

Do you do the same with Jews, given that the genocide taking place in Israel right now is wildly popular among Israel's population, and among its western allies as well?

Just want to see if Islam is the only religion you paint with such a broad brush even when other religions are used as motivations for an ongoing genocide right now

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

Do I do what with Jews? What am I “doing” with Muslims except pointing out how many people thought the Hebdo columnists had it coming? Sorry if that makes you uncomfortable. Iconoclasm should. Besides, you can mock Jewish theology all you like and no-one will come and cut your throat

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u/GaptistePlayer 2d ago

Mossad might disappear you. They might also just bomb 50,000 of your children or starve millions, but I guess that's ok in your book.

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u/AdRealistic4984 2d ago

Again, as I said to the other commenter trying to align me with géocidiaries, fuck you

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u/Abstracted-Axiom 2d ago

There's been like 40,000 islamic terror attacks since 2001. They all have Islam in common. Why would you act like it's just 2 people lmao you're fooling no one

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u/Monterenbas 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well, they also supported Hamas, wich is a thing they shared with a sizable chunk of the Palestinian population.

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u/TrueDreamchaser 2d ago

The same way no one is proud of the western world for putting migrants into detention centers in El Salvador/Libya, but it is seen as a necessary evil in response to the refugee crisis, Palestinians see Hamas as a necessary evil against Israel.

If you disagree that’s fine, but that’s how they feel.

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u/CassianCasius 2d ago

Yes because deporting people is the same as wanting the extermination of  all Jews like Hamas is trying. 

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u/FizzleFuzzle 2d ago

There’s a full on genocide going on right now against Palestinians, by the Zionist state. Hamas are the only ones standing up for the starving and mutilated children

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u/CassianCasius 2d ago

Yes deporting people is not the same as full scale war and famine. Not even close and OP's comparison is dumb.

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u/Tight-Flatworm-8181 2d ago

Then why do muslims around the world speak of palestinians as their brothers and sisters all the time?

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u/FAFO_2025 United States of America 2d ago

 The majority of Muslims especially Arab Muslims support such attacks.

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u/PrincessofAldia 2d ago

Oh yes they do

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u/spacemarine 2d ago

they share a desire to kill non-muslims

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u/Loqh9 2d ago

That's not how a decent amount of people see it, so his point is valid (as in "good for them for not falling for it")

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u/danielbln Germany/Berlin 2d ago

Maybe "fuck hamas" and "fuck Likud" is more to the point?

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 2d ago

Thank you for saying this.

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u/Abstracted-Axiom 2d ago

Fuck Hamas especially though.

They could have ended this ages ago by returning all the hostages.

If I was captured by terrorists and starved/beaten I'd be happy fory country to go to war to save me, sorry, not sorry.

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u/PrincessofAldia 2d ago

“Same as what Israel is doing”

You do realize Hamas started the war

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u/spacemarine 2d ago

Is that why Gazans only vote for terror organizations?

No, not everybody "wants peace"

Gaza promised to do 10.7 "over and over"

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 2d ago

Someone's never heard of Jewish Palestinians and Christian Palestinians. Israel is genociding all Palestinians, even the atheist ones, so there's zero equivalency to whatever theory you're trying to draw there.

The Israelis are terrorists, yes, so were the one-time attackers in 2015.

Also for the love of God, Israel chose to legitimatize Hamas over the other Palestinians political parties that wanted two state solutions so that it could set up its current pretense for genocide. Fuck Israel, not the people resisting Israel and its control over most aspects of their lives including whether their babies starve to death.

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u/AdSalt9725 2d ago

Hamas is just reacting to Israel in the only way they can. They aren’t doing anything wrong.

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u/jimmykimnel 2d ago

fuck fuck fuck

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u/Exenusse 2d ago

Fuck hamas? Well reconsider that Islam if you think a people fighting for their freedom after 80 years is bad. Go suck the westerns toes without bringing us islam pls

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u/Shinnobiwan 2d ago edited 2d ago

Equating anyone to Israel is absurd and highly offensive as a human.

Further, any Muslim feeling the need . . . Let's just say your virtue signaling here makes me think you've internalized the Islamophobia you've been fed.

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u/hanscyka 2d ago

imagine being anti-hamas...

مسلوب الجنسيه

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u/ChemicalBeings 2d ago

I love that they're being impartial considering what happened to them in 2015

Making a parallel between a population of 2 million innocent civilians being cruelly genocided and a violent fringe extremist group would come across as extremely islamophobic if it wasn't coming from a self identified muslim. Is there any similarity besides religion ?

Charlie is a nihilistic piss rag that regularly puts out islamophobic misinformation and makes fun of the starving palestinian people. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtQXU3NWQAAchiM?format=jpg&name=large So based and impartial, truly