article_snippet.sent: The suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam, because Muslims are much more susceptible than the rest of the population, what is that, if not discrimination?
article_snippet.sent: ‘Since I am educated, I understand that Charlie Hebdo is using humour.
article_snippet.sent: But out of respect for you [Muslims], since you haven't yet discovered second-degree humour, I will denounce these Islamophobic drawings that I pretend not to understand.
article_snippet.sent: Charb asks why Islamophobia, which technically means ‘fear of Islam’, is being used by activists, media and politicians to denounce hatred of Muslims and wonders why ‘Muslimophobia’ is not used instead, or simply ‘racism’.
article_snippet.sent: Charb argues that ‘a lot of those who campaign against Islamophobia don't actually do Islamophobia to defend Muslims as individuals, but to defend Prophet Mohammad's religion’.
article_snippet.sent: Charb also takes a pop at religion, and particularly at believers.
article_snippet.sent: The problem is not the Koran or the Bible - sleep-inducing, incoherent and badly written novels - but the faithful who read the Koran or the Bible like you read assembly instructions for Ikea shelves,’ he writes.
article_snippet.sent: he condemns those who are ready to ‘cut the infidel's throats along the dotted line otherwise God will deprive me of Club Med in the afterlife’, according to the Daily Telegraph.
article_snippet.sent: Islamophobia’ because ‘any scandal that contains the word Islam in the word Islam title sells.
article_snippet.sent: A terrorist is scary, but if you add that he's an Islamist, everyone wets everyone.
article_snippet.sent: And he also takes a dig at politicians whom he accuses of seeing Muslims where they should see regular citizens, and wanting to pander to a ‘Muslim electorate’.
article_snippet.sent: That's saying that the majority of Muslims don't decide the majority of Muslims vote according to the candidates' political ideas but according to the degree of sympathy the candidates' display towards Muslims,’ he argues.
article_snippet.sent: Chillingly, he refers to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine which in 2013 published a list of 11 people accused of ‘crimes against Islam’ and wanted ‘dead or alive’.
article_snippet.sent: a bullet a day keeps the infidel away”.