Fuck Muhammad!!!

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A lot of media outlets, in America, France itself, and many countries have never been open to publishing Charlie Hebdo's Muhammad-mocking cartoons. Since the cartoons aren't news, it doesn't really bother me that they won't publish them now.

If they have a regular policy of not publishing the cartoons, I think they generally have every right to decide what they will/won't publish. However, now the cartoons are absolutely news (the terrorists made them such) so in honor of those who died expressing free speech, I think it's acquiescing to those that will kill over such things if they're not publishing them now (as part of this story).

I'm not suggesting that they should start running them regularly but they're clearly part of THIS news story so IMO, they can't accurately report the story without showing what these people were killed for.

I only heard that one report--maybe CNN is showing cartoons that relate to this particular incident. If so, I'm okay with that. If they're not, why not? The extremists deserve what they're getting...MORE widespread publication of the exact types of cartoons they killed over.

Later CNN can go back to NOT regularly featuring those cartoons if that's their policy. I don't recall seeing cartoons on CNN anyway--although they should be there if they make the news.

Damn, I think I just said the same thing 4 different ways.