Dispute over Satire in the USA – taz.de

dispute over Satire in the US

The American PEN Center throws a gala evening. Writer boycott him because “Charlie Hebdo” should get a prize.

WASHINGTON taz | to protest the award of this year’s prize for courage and freedom of expression to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at least six English-language writers want the gala evening of the American PEN Center on May 5 boycott.

The Californian Rachel Kushner, the Canadian Michael Ondaatje, the New Yorker Francine Prose, the British taiye selasi, a native of Nigeria Teju Cole and the Australian Peter Carey fits the anticlerical line of not sheet. They also criticize the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad and the alleged “cultural intolerance” in Charlie Hebdo, call the cartoons “Islamophobic” and the award decision by the PEN Centre “wrong” and “opportunistic”.

When PEN Gala evening in the week, one of the most important fundraiser of the year to the 800 participants expected are the six authors should preside tables. In letters to the PEN Center in New York and in press statements declaring now, why Charlie Hebdo , despite their outrage at the murders keep for the wrong winners.

Carey called the award of the French magazine with this year’s “Freedom of Expression Courage” award “self-righteous”. He added: “. PEN appears oblivious to the cultural arrogance of the French nation, which does not recognize their moral obligation to a large and powerless part of its population”

Other writers have reported in the dispute about words. In a long correspondence with the PEN Centre, the short story writer Deborah Eisenberg pours out a whole heap of insults about Charlie Hebdo . In their letters, the magazine is among other “close-minded”, “tasteless, brainless and reckless”, “vulgar” and “foolish”. At the end the author signed with her name and the words “Jewish and atheist”.

The Americans are torn

The date the only prominent dissenting vote came from former PEN President Salman Rushdie, who himself for years because of a “fatwa” against his novel “The Satanic Verses” hidden lived. He called Ondaatje and Carey “old friends” – and adds that they are “terribly wrong”: The center “would not give his name to earn as an organization for freedom of expression if it does not defend the people who have been murdered for their drawings, and would celebrate, “said Rushdie.

The scandal in the PEN-center revolves around feelings that already in January, immediately after the murder of twelve people in the Paris Charlie Hebdo- – editorial, was broken. At that time the major US media reported, although outraged by the massacre, but they censored the cartoons “because of its deliberately offensive content,” such as the New York Times justified. Americans, who wanted to know what is involved in Charlie Hebdo at all, had to inform the Internet.

Since then, the debate about what Satire – in words and pictures – can and what they can not, never lost in the United States. At the center of this debate is censorship of respect for religious feelings.

In this issue are Americans between basic principles torn accompanying the history of their country, including both the constitutional rights to full religious freedom and just such freedom of expression. ‘ / p>

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