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...That's the caption for a cartoon of an exasperated Mohammed that ran on the cover of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly. It was the winner of a contest the magazine held in support of the Danish magazine that was threatened by Islamic fundamentalists after publishing an illustration of the Prophet with a bomb in his turban. Inside that issue of Charlie Hebdo were 12 other cartoons, including one in which four terrorist whose bodies are still smoking from a bomb blast are arriving in heaven, and Mohammed says "Wait, we've run out of virgins...
...Muslims in France were no more amused than the ones in Denmark. (They consider any depiction of Mohammed to be blasphemy.) So three Islamic groups brought suit against Charlie Hebdo. Leconte's film follows the trial through recollections of witnesses and the legal teams as well as documenting the religious and political debates in the halls outside the courtroom. He focuses on the chronological suspense of the trial, and has the benefit of defense attorneys whose brilliance is as sharp as the magazine's. When the plaintiffs' lawyer argues that Islam is caricatured more unfairly than other religions, one attorney...
...with social and even religious ribbing, but that the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, considered blasphemous by Muslims, were then exacerbated by associating him with terrorism. "This is an affair about caricatures that incite racism," Boubakeur argues. That's a valid point if one ignores past caricatures by Charlie Hebdo and others satirically linking other religions with violent, murderous, or simply intolerant acts...
...French daily Lib?ration ran again as the trial opened Wednesday. Initially, as the fury over the caricatures grew, the magazine published another cartoon depicting the Prophet lamenting of the hue and cry, "It's hard being loved by a**holes." But now that the matter is in court, Charlie Hebdo's editors are dropping their cavalier sarcasm and instead cast themselves as the last bastion of free speech...
...This trial is medieval," said grim-faced Charlie Hebdo publisher Philippe Val before the court case opened. "If we can't criticize religion anymore, there will be no women's rights, no birth control and no gay rights...