Paris massacre: Lessons that need to be learned by our war-making governments
Lindsey German
No
one can have anything but the profoundest condemnation for the attacks
on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. It is
reported that 12 people are dead, shot in a commando style attack, and
that at least nine of them are journalists.
The
magazine has recently published a cartoon of the Islamic state leader,
and has a record of publishing anti-Islamic satire. The gunmen are
assumed to be in some way connected with Islamic State (ISIS).
There
can be no justification for the attack. It should be possible to
satirise or to criticise ideas without this being something that can
result in death or injury. There must, however, be a response to it that
does not lead either to an increase in future terrorist attacks or in a
rise in attacks on Muslims.
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