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An Italian imam just confirmed whose side he's on when it come to Charlie Hebdo reprinting the Mohammed cartoons at the time when accomplices of the terrorists who attacked their office are going on trial:

Imam Yahya Pallavicini, president of the Italian Islamic Religious Community (Coreis), has condemned the republishing of Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons.

The Muslim leader told Italian media the publication was “a confirmation of their insensitivity and their crude pursuit of notoriety based on provocation and unintelligent satire”.

Ezzedin Elzir, who serves as Imam of Florence and is a former president of the Union of Islamic Communities and Organisations in Italy, also criticised the move, saying, according to Il Giornale: “Unfortunately, for the umpteenth, time freedom of expression is confused with the offence of another. Charlie Hebdo has offended millions of Muslims. This is not satire, which is needed in society.”

According to a new poll taken by the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop), the French public has a very different view on the cartoons.

The Ifop poll revealed that 59 per cent of the French public were in favour of the publication of the cartoons, a result 21 per cent higher than a similar survey taken in 2006.

The imam's claim he does think satire is positive is unconvincing due to his opposition to satirizing Islam. And back in France itself, here's what local Islamofascists think:

A survey released by the Institut Français d’Opinion Publique (Ifop) has revealed that 26 per cent of French Muslims under the age of 25 refuse to condemn the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror killings.

The study, which was undertaken in partnership with the satirical newspaper itself, revealed that 59 per cent of the French general public supported Charlie Hebdo‘s right to publish depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed — 21 per cent more than a similar study in 2006.

However, five per cent of Muslims say they do not condemn the actions of the radical Islamic terrorists who committed the attack, and when broken down by age, over a quarter of those under 25 said they would not condemn killings, while 12 per cent said they condemn the attack but share the values of the attackers.

72 per cent of all Muslims denounced the 2015 massacre — but this majority is still significantly lower than the figure for the public at large, with 88 per cent of the general population condemning the killings.

All this proves is that Islam in Europe today is no different in its negativity than before, and if that's what they think of Charlie Hebdo, it's a forgone conclusion what they think of antisemitic attacks on Jews.

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