Gun attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo kills 11

[garethom]

There was no point starting another one when we were already in one.

you could have always picked another country, maybe help us for once

fukin comin 4 u rand mcnally

[mIrReN]

obvs a gun control issue
if people were allowed to bear firearms this might have ended differently

found someone sharing your opinion
https://twitter.com/TovarJeanG/status/5 ... 69/photo/1

[garethom]

Might've already been mentioned, but the policeman that was on protection duty at the office was Muslim himself.

[ehbes]

Might've already been mentioned, but the policeman that was on protection duty at the office was Muslim himself.

Bill O'Rielly is gonna have a field day with this

[exfox]

spent some time in villers-côterets a few months ago, really weird seeing the pics of the place being searched by RAID trucks

[wolf89]

Now don't call me tasteless for asking about this but from the cartoons I've seen from the magazine they seem to take loads of cheap shots at Muslims constantly. Maybe I'm not getting it because I am not French or something but some of what I saw strikes me more as being hateful rather than actual satire

[DJoe]

yeah from what ive seen/read/hear its a far right/borderline racist magazine

[mIrReN]

well you haven't seen/read/heard much then.

[faultier]

wouldnt go as far as saying it was an all out far right/racist paper, but yeah, they had become a bit islamophobic over the last years...

eyeroll at everyone saluting their alleged "courage" for criticizing islam
because clearly, aside from the courage of charlie hebdo, no one dares criticizing islam in western countries and public discourse is really being suppressed on that topic

[ultraspatial]

srs fuck all these pricks with I AM CHARLIE pics on fb. yeh really fucking brave m8.
offending muslims is alright cuz they're a bunch of radicals and noone likes them anyway, right?
not gonna say these brehs had it coming, altho this isn't the first time this sorta shit happened, and people should say whatever they want, regardless of how offensive it is. but turning them into a bunch of martyrs for free speech is dumb. if any other people (say blacks or jews) were to be offended, everyone would start flapping their wordholes about racism, discrimination and ignorance

[DJoe]

well you haven't seen/read/heard much then.

not really no.

At work today our boss made everyone say je suis charlie after he said it and 5 ppl out of ten (4 muslim men one black christian lady) refused to on the grounds that theyve been offended by material thats been printed in the magazine.

[faultier]

At work today our boss made everyone say je suis charlie after he said it

wtf?

[RKM]

do you work for michael scott

[Phigure]

some of their stuff towards Islam is pretty undignified and tasteless but tbf they did similarly offensive stuff about jews, catholics. I did also see what seemed like some pretty racist portrayals of blacks though

they're going to become martyrs for free speech and western freedom etc etc like you said though


also wtf @ your boss

[DJoe]

yeah i know ridiculous. most people didnt reply but 5 ppl actively refused

so looks like its not right wing at all but the anti religious side of it makes it very offensive to some people.

nah middlesex uni

had a minutes silence in our meeting links between educatioin and free speech and that i guess

[mIrReN]

If I read correctly 2 of them were even communists and they "attacked" everything not just Islam but they did focus them more after the Danish cartoons
and yes
and wtf your boss :/

[DJoe]

to be honest it looks like a lot of the cartoons just set out to offend people. nearly malicious stuff really.

[wobbles]

and we traverse the stages of grief together...

[Forum]

They could have been printing izan comics for all I care, it doesn't make the situation any less ridiculous

[DJoe]

yeah obviously. im not saying that these attacks are in anyway justified. its disgusting to attack someone physically because of something that theyve drawn or said. the way to go about things is engaging in dialogue not shooting people.