Gun attack on French magazine kills 12 - because of cartoons

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 3 months ago to Culture
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Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack.

Three masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car.

The gunmen shouted "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad", witnesses say.


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  • Posted by $ Susanne 10 years, 3 months ago
    I have a sinking feeling that, because of the huge Islamification of Britain, they may well be next in line.
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  • Posted by Lucky 10 years, 3 months ago
    Various comments:
    The religion of peace at work.
    Some Islamic sources have condemned the attack.
    The police officer killed was a Muslim.
    This, a few days after a big protest demonstration in Germany against the Islamization of Europe, followed by even bigger demonstrations against the first.
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  • Posted by hattrup 10 years, 3 months ago
    Perhaps Sunni and Shia could just be more aggressively turned toward each other - and kill themselves off. Get some good cartoons into each of their pubs/websites that make fun of each other.

    and get all our resources out of the presently doomed Middle East.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wish Islam would rest in peace. What a bloody medieval ball and chain on civilization!
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, red hot poker up your butt or watching starving rats eat your entrails... I'll take water boarding over that any day :/
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed, but you see I have already thought of a solution to that. Apparently in Islam, if a man is killed by a woman that is a one way ticket to hell. All female firing squad, problem solved. No virgins, do not pass go, do not collect 200 goats. :)
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 3 months ago
    Maybe its time for an ultimatum. You keep your countrymen from waging war on us, or we will annex your country and fix it ourselves. That said, I don't think we have the gumption to do the first, and lack what is required to do the latter.

    Another example of religion getting in the way of freedom. Only different from the Inquisition in that the Church had government control, and here the church are guerrillas.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ben Franklin. He may have said or written it on more than one occasion. Originally it seems to have been, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." It is hard to shine more brightly in several areas than did Franklin.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 10 years, 3 months ago
    The crowds in French streets give $5Au hope that Western countries will stop worrying about political correctness and fight back.
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  • Posted by edweaver 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have heard there are some areas where sharia may be prevelent in the US but I just don't want to believe it. Unfortunately there are things that have happened in this country in the past right under everyone's nose that I would not have believed either.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Precisely..
    I've been saying for years that they are here and just waiting for that phone call. However, unlike Europe, we don't recognize sharia law... yet. I'm sure bo and the U.N. are getting some pens ready for that too. NOTHING would surprise me at this point.
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  • Posted by edweaver 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think they are in our house too and have been for quite some time. I also don't see any indication the current administration wants to get them out either.
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  • Posted by $ Terraformer_One 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They count dying as martyrdom; going for the 72 year old virgin.
    Brick them up alive and feed them pig swill.
    Make them live to regret every second since their father raped the woman who gave birth to them.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe France will let the Shria courts handle their due process. Then what? France has already invited the vampire into their house... and I don't think they have what it takes to get them out... I mean... we're talking about France here.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Everything they do is another building block to a reason for declaring it. How many pots are they stirring right now? I've lost count.
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  • Posted by etharris 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You may very well be right. If only governments jumped at other opportunities as quickly as they would at an instance of martial law.
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  • Posted by Snoogoo 10 years, 3 months ago
    Sometimes I reflect on the torture devices and execution techniques used in the middle, high, and renaissance ages and on into the enlightenment. It is true that many of them were used unjustly, but at least back then we had a way to dispose of vermin like this. France does not have the death penalty, but what else is there for humanoids who do things like this? Yes, try them so they get their due process, I know that is important, but then it should be off to the firing squad.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah...the last thing we want is UN militarized vehicles driving around our streets... that's a sign of the end of everything. (Although, I believe there are UN vehicles already here.....waiting.)
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