Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Mourir pour le droit de dessiner.(updated)

 Here is a link from Médiapart , I hope the link works.
 I stand for the right to draw and be satirical and free to express what is felt wrong and despicable in this world.
Today, twelve good people were shot in Paris because of this right of expression. Among them were five famous French cartoonists I have followed for years and laughed to tears at their drawings. This front page is forty one year old and today, it makes me cry. But I fairly well know the spirit of these artists will survive their  dreadful deaths.
Tonight, I found what seems to me more relevant to their cause in the English press, from Salman Rushdie  (Quotes from the Telegraph)
15.34 Celebrated French cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Wolinski were all killed in the attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. Theo Merz profiles the victims:
Quote Cabu - real name Jean Cabut - was the cartoonist behind a February 2006 front page of Charlie Hebdo depicting Muhammad, following the controversy after Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published sketches of the Muslim prophet...
Read full profiles: Paris shooting: the cartoonists who were killed

Among the dead are (clockwise from top left) Jean Cabut (aka Cabu), Tignous, Georges Wolinski and Charb - EPA/YOAN VALAT
15.21 Salman Rushdie, the author who was the subject of a fatwa calling for his assassination issued by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has declared he "stands with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire"
Quote I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. “Respect for religion” has become a code phrase meaning “fear of religion.” Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
Salman Rushdie (Clara Molden/The Telegraph)

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