Remembering Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo marks decade since gun attack with special issue
Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun-attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France's Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking. Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in bloodshed the end of all wilful naivety about the threat of militant Islamism.
Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi burst into a meeting at the Paris office of the satirical weekly, murdering its star cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski, Charb and Tignous.
Overall, 12 people were killed by the brothers, including a Muslim policeman on duty outside. Two days later they were cornered and shot dead by police at a sign-making business near Charles-de-Gaulle airport. That same day saw Amedy Coulibaly – a one-time prison associate of Cherif – kill four Jews in a synchronised hostage-taking at a supermarket in eastern Paris. Coulibaly – who was then shot dead by police – had killed a policewoman the day before.
A decade on, Charlie Hebdo continues to bring out a weekly edition and has a circulation (print and online combined) of around 50,000. It does so from an office whose whereabouts are kept secret, and with staff who are protected by bodyguards. But in an editorial in Tuesday's memorial edition, the paper's main shareholder said its spirit of ribald anti-religious irreverence was still very much alive.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ew0lzggr7o
@my-king-and-i removed their quoted postSome of the best football matches I've seen have ended 0-0.
I appreciate you American chaps require immediate gratification and games that involve points scored every 20 seconds and half time fireworks. (At half time we generally eat a pie).
@Cliff-Mashburn saidSounds suspiciously like little butthurt white boys saying they "want to take our country back".
Because they already have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEbolIVf5Y
Jackasses.
@Cliff-Mashburn saidAnd how long have you lived in England?
It already has fallen dummy. LOOK at the way they have taken over their cities all over. England especially.
@Cliff-Mashburn saidheh what a dumbass
Because they already have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEbolIVf5Y
in case it's not clear, i am talking about you.
i have no idea about the dumbass(es) in your garbage youtube
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@Suzianne saidNot adopted by, but practiced by Muslim communities unofficially. They have set up quasi-official councils, etc. all over Europe and the UK.
Name one non-Muslim country that has adopted Sharia Law.
https://eclj.org/religious-freedom/pace/le-conseil-de-leurope-sinquite-grandement-de-lapplication-de-la-charia-en-europe
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@Rajk999 saidThese people refuse to check out videos of London/Paris/Oslo/etc where Muslims have taken over the capital cities.
6% Islam !! The people who lead /influence the British, like the royalty, politicians, the captains of industry, the wealthy, are less than 1% of the population.
It would be interesting to see how many Muslims are in politics. I heard that there are at least 10 major British towns with Muslim mayors. For 6% of the population that not bad at all.
Here's a nice no-go zone in Sweden:
