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When a Muslim group in France took Charlie Hebdo to court a year ago—over a headline that read “The Koran is shit—it doesn’t stop bullets”—in a suit filed in the once German town of Alsace-Moselle, the magazine’s editor relied on that particular town’s peculiar laws to protect him. Alsace-Moselle retains a historical set of laws banning religious blasphemy against Christianity and Judaism, but not Islam. Stephane Charbonnier, Charlie Hebdo’s editorial director who was killed in the Jan. 7 shooting, was confident of the suit’s outcome, saying at the time, “We know in advance that the trial will not go through because Islam is not in the code.”
full: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hypocrisy_abounds_free_speech_as_cover_for_islamophobia_20150115
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