We read:
"The editors of a French magazine which re-published the Danish cartoons of Islam's prophet Muhammad will begin defending their right to free speech in a French court this week.
The satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, is being sued by French Muslim organisation in the trial that opens in Paris on Wednesday.
The Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of French Islamic Organisations accuse Charlie Hebdo of inciting racial hatred by reprinting the caricatures that sparked violence in the Muslim world last year.
Philippe Val, publisher of the magazine, has depicted the trial as a defence of free speech.
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It will be interesting to see how far the traditional French proclamation of devotion to liberty stretches on this occasion. Will French Islamophila trump it? France does have some very Islamophilic laws and judges. You can't even give away pork soup in France without running into legal trouble.
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