L’Express banned in north Africa
Oh Mo: It's another picture of Mohammed
Governments in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have banned this week’s issue of the French news magazine L’Express for offending Islam.
The edition is entitled “The Jesus-Mohamed Shock”. It discusses the relationship between Islam and Christianity in a way in which some officials in Algeria described as “pro-Bible” (the Koran plagiarises large chunks of the Bible, but most Muslims don’t like to be reminded of this fact).
The cover of the French edition is notable for showing an image of Mohammed, although the face was whited-out for the north African editions in deference to the superstitious sensibilities prevalent on those countries. However, another reason cited by Algerian officials for the ban was that there were more images of Mohammed inside the magazine.
A Tunisian official said the magazine was “offensive to Islam and faith or convictions of Muslims”.
Morocco’s Information Minister Khalid Naciri said that he would not hesitate to ban future publications “every time the media offends religion.”
I thought this was going to be another chocolate Jesus story.
I have joked before how often the Muslims appear to be offended. Just to strike a balance, could anyone tell me what does not affend them?
If we rule out the usual suspects: women, christians, jews, hindu’s, buddists, clothing, art, literature, food, dogs, television, medicine, romance, alcohol, smoking, having fun, watching someone having fun, I suppose that leaves a lot of things they don’t get upset about.
Miserable twats.