Blasphemous Cartoons: A Right in a Democracy?
His answer is: no. He recalls the attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine when everyone was saying, "I am Charlie."
Cattenoz, “I have always affirmed: I am not Charlie’.” He disassociates himself from a newspaper that publishes blasphemies against all religions.
When Charlie re-appeared, it published a cartoon representing Benedict XVI sodomised by Mohammed. The press was delighted, Cattenoz recalls.
He admits “that I wept in the face of such a caricature that wounded my Christian sensibility.” And, “Everyone's freedom stops where I hurt my brother.”
“I can enter into dialogue with a brother who doesn’t share my point of view, and use all my powers of persuasion, but to declare from the outset that blasphemy and caricatures, whatever they may be, are a right in a democracy, that is not right, that is not true.”
Picture: Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsLowzjnfwbp
