Words travel at the speed of sound, but images travel at the speed of light.
– Jeet Heer (Globe and Mail) : France’s deep-seated tradition of subversive satire
The challenge, rising from below during these difficult years, comes from a different vision: One that sees the world and its peoples as divided into “civilizations,” fundamentally incompatible with one another.
– Doug Saunders (Globe and Mail) : Europe threatened by its own ‘clash of civilizations’
C’est un peu comme si une immigration mal pensée et, on le constate, très mal intégrée, avait entraîné la formation d’un nouveau peuple dans les banlieues françaises, qui développe un rapport hostile envers la société d’accueil, en se réfugiant dans un discours victimaire qui le pousse à se croire victime d’une France néocoloniale.
– Mathieu Bock-Côté (Le Journal de Montréal) : Pendant ce temps, dans les banlieues françaises…
Ce qui tue, c’est le fanatisme. Il prend toutes sortes de visages. Notamment celui de l’islamisme.
– Yves Boisvert (La Presse) : C’est le fanatisme, pas la religion
These mocking western media portrayals of the prophet were seen by many Muslims as part of a growing attack on Islam by the western world that began with George Bush’s invasion of Iraq – the Pandora’s box that has indirectly led to many of these outrages.
– Eric Margolis : Murder in Paris