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Patrick Chappatte [1967-0] Lebanese

Rank: 103
Cartoonist

Patrick Chappatte is a Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist who draws for Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the International New York Times. Born to a Lebanese mother and a Swiss father he was raised in Singapore and Switzerland. He also worked as an illustrator for the New York Times and as cartoonist for Newsweek.

Freedom, History, War

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The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.		101
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.		102
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.	History	103
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.	Freedom	104
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.	War	105
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.		106
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.		107
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.		108
The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.		109
I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'		110
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.		111
You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.		112
Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.		113

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