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Authoritarians seeking to extend repression have always drawn innocents into manufactured crises. None was more innocent than Jacques Barrot, who, in 2005, helped trigger a wave of death when he entered France s annual pig squealing contest at the Pyrenean village of Trie-sur-Ba茂se.Barrot didn t win: that honour went to Yohann and Olivier Roussel for delivering an impressive impersonation of pigs mating. However, history remembers Barrot rather than the Roussels because an Associated Press photographer snapped him wearing a plastic snout standing at the microphone and put it on the news wires.The next time it appeared, someone had doctored the picture and added the caption: Here is the real image of Mohammed. Two radical imams, whom Denmark had foolishly welcomed as asylum seekers, included it in a dossier they were hawking rou termo stanley nd the dictatorships of the Middle East, on how Danish newspaper Jylland stanley website s-Posten had insulted Muslims.After at least 100 deaths and the storming of Danish embassies in Syria and Iran, journalists pointed out that the newspaper hadn t included a picture of M Barrot among the innocuous cartoons it had run to uphold the right to mock religion. The clerics then said an anonymous poison pen writer had sent the wounding picture to a Danish Muslim. It was, they added, an insult to their faith as great as Ayaan Hirsi Ali s championing of the rights of Muslim women.Too many people forgot too quick stanley website ly that the violence of 2005 did not have as its root cause th
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