killed. 2004 a dutch film maker was slaughtered on the streets for having made a film critical of islam. and then of course i year later we had the danish cartoon incident where they published 12 cartoons, most of the prophet muhammad and that sparked an international incident. this shows that there is a clear and present danger against media that offend religious feelings of a minority of extremists islamists who are willing to use violence and terrorism to enforce their red lines. and i think, of course today s horrific incident is the most grave incident against the press in this fear. but it s by no means an isolated
incident. of course, charlie hebdo was fire bombed in 2011. in denmark, the newspaper, the cartoonist responsible for the cartoon, only escaped an axe-wielding attack by fleeing into a panic room. another person was apprehended in o hare airport in chicago. so, this is one thing we heard from we ve heard about just how serious this is indeed from so many leaders around the world. so many have emphasized that threat to free speech you mentioned. what can european countries do specifically to protect free speech going forward in response to this? i think historically there have been quite meek and equivocal reactions from politicians and intellectuals who have been sort of on the on the fence of defending free speech out of fear of appearing islamphobic. you have to stand up for basic principles of free speech.
because of cartoons they published of the prophet muhammad. it was firebombed for those cartoons back in 2011. is also faced protests in 2007 after depict muhammad crying with the tag line, hard to be loved by idiots. we heard reporters talking about different instances garner attracted a lot of tension from this paper in the past. they first had trouble from reprinting that well-known danish cartoon that depicted the prophet back in tuition. that incident 2006. that incident caused massive riots around the world and brought out by name specifically by al qaeda that something raised their ire in all of this. let s bring in walid phares, our fox news middle eastern terrorism analyst. walid, obviously a tragic, sad morning playing out in paris. these gunmen are very much at large which is a main concern we have here at this moment. what is your reaction to all of this walid? first of all by reviewing the videos, i m sure our
is the callousness and dismissiveness ross being is causing. where is the rep prosy? you you can t run a danish cartoon, a swedish cartoon i was set on fire. a little girl in seattle, a cartoonist who said there s a hair trigger sensitivity in the muslim world. with the rep prosy? what we need is a high road sean it is for to you turn around the way the pope did when he recognized that he branded muslims as fighting terrorist people apologized. went to a mosque. it was wrong. president bush asked us right after 9/11, don t blame muslims on this you know the catholics went through this when churches couldn t be bill. you know this is no way to
is the callousness and dismissiveness ross being is causing. where is the rep prosy? you you can t run a danish cartoon, a swedish cartoon i was set on fire. a little girl in seattle, a cartoonist who said there s a hair trigger sensitivity in the muslim world. with the rep prosy? what we need is a high road sean it is for to you turn around the way the pope did when he recognized that he branded muslims as fighting terrorist people apologized. went to a mosque. it was wrong. president bush asked us right after 9/11, don t blame muslims on this you know the catholics went through this when churches couldn t be bill. you know this is no way to