Reactions

1 March 2006, a group of twelve intellectuals issued a manifesto in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo ("Manifeste des Douze: ensemble contre le nouveau totalitarisme" June 5 español7 with different translations.) The appeal was signed:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch MP of Somali origin who wrote to Theo Van Gogh's film Submission for which he was assassinated by Islamic radicals.

• Chahla Chafiq, Iranian writer exiled in France.
• Caroline Fourest, essayist and author of a book against Tariq Ramadan.
• Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher.
• Irshad Manji, Canadian journalist, author of "My dilemmas with Islam. "
• Mehdi Mozaffari, professor Iranian exile in Denmark.
• Maryam Namazie, writer and television producer.
• Taslima Nasrin, Bangladesh-born doctor prosecuted for apostasy.
• Salman Rushdie, novelist sentenced to death by Khomeini for "The Satanic Verses. "
• Antoine Sfeir, a Lebanese Christian living in France.
• Philippe Val, director of Charlie Hebdo.
• Ibn Warraq, author of Why I am not Muslim.

The manifesto was widespread in both the media and in the blogosphere tradicionales9 [citation needed]. With this declaration, the signatories warn of pursuing self-censorship practices that reactions in the Muslim world and counter could cause a current of opinion in the Western world considered that the publication of the cartoons was an affront to free Muslims from objectionable morally and politically, as stated by President Rodríguez Zapatero, 10 if not a "provocation"as the rate reached by French President Jacques Chirac, 11, or Russian President Vladimir Putin.12



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