Posted by: ne0 January 12, 2015
Is religious tolerance and freedom of speech mutually exclusive?
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Hurray you are jumping to conclusions too soon. I fully support freedom of speech. I am only saying perhaps this incident could be avoided if they did not constantly provocate them.

Do you agree that this incident could be avoided if they did not constantly provocate them or not? That's all I'm saying. 

You should read this article. An excerpt below:

"Every country, including France, has limits on freedom of speech. In 2005 Le Monde was found guilty of “racist defamation” against Israel and the Jewish people. In 2008 a cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo was fired after refusing to apologise for making antisemitic remarks in a column. And two years before the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of Muhammad in 2006, it rejected ones offering a light-hearted take on the resurrection of Christ for fear they would “provoke an outcry”."

http://www.alternet.org/world/all-attempts-explain-charlie-hebdo-attack-are-reductive
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