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By Genc Pollo, former minister and deputy 1-Nine months ago, Samuel Paty, a high school teacher in Paris, in class used profane caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to illustrate to his students the freedom of expression and the consequences and reactions to it; he offered the Muslim students, mostly from families of Maghreb origin, to leave the classroom if they could not stand what Islam calls unacceptable insults to the Prophet. The parent of a student started an action against the teacher on social networks, which turned into a hate campaign that spread like wildfire. A week later, a Chechen immigrant attacked teacher Paty as he was leaving school and beheaded him with a saw.
Three decades ago Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data in Vienna, a colleague invited me to see the film "The life of Brian" with the group of actors Monthy Python. At the entrance to the cinema, I was surprised to see two nuns handing out leaflets to every visitor. "Life of Brian" was a satirical parody of Jesus Christ and Judea of that time. The leaflet, which I then read with gusto, noted that the film's narrative was unworthy of the Son of God and that it unfairly hurt the feelings of Christian believers. 3- Somewhere between the leaflets in Vienna and the satir in Paris, an association of the Hoxhallars in Albania took the charitable initiative to donate blood to the sick, as evidence of their love for the Prophet Muhammad; who was featured in a bombshell turban in cartoons published by a satirical newspaper in Denmark.

Meanwhile, the Middle East, Pakistan, etc. were engulfed in violent protests: Danish embassies were attacked and, in some cases, set on fire. The contrast is clear! 4-Years in February 2020, the carnival in the town of Aalst, Belgium, for the second time presented the stereotypical figures of Jews with black clothes, big noses and bags of gold in their hands. This sparked numerous controversies: from Jewish associations to the Belgian Prime Minister and the President of the European Commission who criticized the carnival for anti-Semitism and dehumanization to the municipality of Aalst and the government of the Flemish province who defended it based on tradition and freedom of expression and satire.
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