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Jack is a graduate of Rutgers University where he majored in history. His career in the life and health insurance industry involved medical risk selection and brokerage management. Retired in Florida for over two decades after many years in NJ and NY, he occasionally writes, paints, plays poker, participates in play readings and is catching up on Shakespeare, Melville and Joyce, etc.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Extra: Latest Charlie Hebdo Cover

Here is the latest Charlie Hebdo cover that has caused Muslims in many nations to riot, and has generally not been reproduced by most Western publications out of fear of reprisal.  It is clear that many Muslims are very thin-skinned about any portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.  Their religion prohibits it, but the problem is that only a minority of the planet's inhabitants are Muslim. Muslims should avoid publications with such pictures in them, but they have no right to insist on the worldwide suspension of freedom of expression because of their beliefs. They are free to worship as they wish, but they cannot impose their beliefs, including the forbidding of the portrayal of their prophet, on the rest of the world.  Here's the cover:
JL



Translation:  All is pardoned

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