MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
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In response to the violence surrounding the publication of the cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad a group of writers issued a letter whose intent was to show the need to fight for secular values and freedom.[1] The letter was published in the French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and warns against Islamic "totalitarianism". [2]
The Charlie Hebdo magazine was one of several European papers to reprint the caricatures. Its right to publish these was contested by the French Muslim Council, who tried, but failed to get a court to ban the publication[3].
[edit] Statement signatories
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Chahla Chafiq - Iranian writer exiled in France
- Caroline Fourest
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Irshad Manji
- Mehdi Mozaffari - Iranian academic exiled in Denmark
- Maryam Namazie
- Taslima Nasreen
- Salman Rushdie
- Antoine Sfeir - director of French review examining Middle East
- Philippe Val
- Ibn Warraq
