For the past decade, the U.N. has demonized cartoonists:
“They should not attack people who are not responsible for the publication of the cartoons.” — KOFI ANNAN, 2006
“We deeply regret the offence given by the caricatures…” — KOFI ANNAN, 2006
“We appeal to everyone to exercise [freedom of expression] responsibly, and not to use it as a pretext for incitement to hatred or insult to the deeply held belief of any community…” — KOFI ANNAN, 2006
Media and publications should not “be used for incitement, or to spread hatred.” — KOFI ANNAN, 2006
“Charlie Hebdo is doubly irresponsible to publish these cartoons.” — NAVI PILLAY, 2012
The Charlie Hebdo cartoons are “malicious and deliberately provocative,” only the latest in a string of “deliberately provocative acts or products targeting particular religions and their followers.” — RUPERT COLVILLE, Spokesman of UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2012
