French Magazine "Charlie Hebdo" offices attacked by gunmen

[BerenTebogo]

No idea what that says.

[Kuya]

"What do 25% of french want?"

"A Joan of Ark who puts others to the stake"

Pictured is caricature of france's far right party lead politician Marine Le Pen, daughter of renounced racist politian in france, while the black man has a sign that says foreigner.

[Mazmaz]

"Would it have been as funny in 1933?"
Another one in comic form: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-...acks?CMP=fb_gu

[Tyrath]

"What do 25% of french want?"

"A Joan of Ark who puts others to the stake"

Pictured is caricature of france's far right party lead politician Marine Le Pen, daughter of renounced racist politian in france, while the black man has a sign that says foreigner.

Yeah I had someone posting a bunch of their comics out of context claiming racism. I explained each one to them, haven't heard a response back still.

[6souls]

so now that that's done:

Police say that it was unrelated to the other two incidents earlier today. Lasted 8 hours, two hostages taken and freed, hostage taker surrendered to police without incident. Probably just a copycat.

http://rt.com/news/221255-montpellie...ostage-france/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...hree-days.html

[6souls]

Two more suspects named

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...e863efb698.jpg

Hayat had 500 phone conversations with the wife of Cherif Kouachi

Spoiler: show

The whereabouts of a female suspect who has connections to at least one of the terror suspects and who is wanted in connection with the killing of a police officer remains unknown.

Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the killing of a female police officer on Thursday. Another suspect in that death, Amedy Coulibaly, allegedly took hostages at a kosher market in Paris today.

According to the Paris Public Prosecutor's office, the pair was in a relationship and had spent the last year in contact with one of the gunmen believed responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre that killed 12.

Boumeddiene had exchanged 500 phone calls with the wife of Cherif Kouachi, one of the suspected Charlie Hebdo gunmen, according to the prosecutor's office.

Police also confirmed another link between Coulibaly and the two gunmen, Cherif Kouachi and his brother Said Kouachi, suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Coulibaly was tried and convicted several years ago for attempting to break convicted terrorist Smain Ali Belkacem out of prison.

Cherif Kouachi, was also tried in the Belkacem case but was not convicted, according to the Paris Public Prosecutor's office.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=28116838

[Koul]

That is one of the best couples selfies out there

[NynJa]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...es-raif-badawi

Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for 'insulting Islam'
Raif Badawi has been given 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes to be carried out over 20 weeks
He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1m riyals or about $266,600.

but yeah, they're a religion of Peace

[6souls]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...es-raif-badawi

but yeah, they're a religion of Peace

And how is it linked to Charlie Hebdo?

[NynJa]

I will clarify, however, that discussion of Islam and its violent subset is acceptable.

Bane has already clarified that discussion about the problem of radical Islam is fair game.

derp

[archibaldcrane]

And how is it linked to Charlie Hebdo?

Hebdo was attacked for insulting Islam.

Just like this guy.

Saudi Arabia is a terrorist state, persecuting free speech just like the Hebdo terrorists did.

[vagus]

Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, the most wanted woman in France, has already left the country, travelling to Turkey and crossing the border into Syria, according to police sources.

The partner of Amedy Coulibani, who was shot dead by police yesterday after allegedly killing four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris, left France before the terror attacks, according to French TV channel RTL.
Hayat Boumeddiene, allegedly pictured in a French forest.
Hayat Boumeddiene, allegedly pictured in a French forest(Source: Twitter)

A source told RTL that Boumeddiene had a reservation on a flight from Madrid to Istanbul on 2 January, and was spotted crossing the border into Syria on 8 January, the day after Coulibani's alleged associates Cherif and Said Kouachi, killed 12 in a terror attack on Parisian satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Le Monde reports that she flew to Turkey with a man, whose brother is known to French intelligence.

The newspaper reports that she made over 500 telephone calls to the wife of Cherif Kouachi in 2014, with police investigating the links between the couples.

She has a religious, not civil partnership, with Coulibani, which is not recognized under French law.

After the terror attacks police launched a nationwide search for Boumedienne, French prosecuters have described her as a dangerous individual trained in the use of firearms.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-terro...-syria-1482822


Bin Laden style hunt from the French is coming?

[Ratatapa]

False bomb alert today in France, they won't catch a break won't they?

[notorious bum]

Surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist on the magazine's "new friends": "we vomit on all these people" https://news.yahoo.com/vomit-charlie...163403612.html …

The moral hysteria of Je suis charlie
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/moral-hysteria-charlie

Did they, for example, lampoon journalists who, in the name of freedom of expression, mock Muslims and Jews regardless of the consequences? Did they, in other words, ever satirize themselves? Apparently Charlie Hebdo has announced it will produce a million copies of its next issue. Will this issue ridicule the scenes of mourning and solemn demonstrations on the grand boulevards of Paris, poking fun at people who raised pens skyward and lit candles in the dark? And why not? Nothing is sacred. Wouldn’t this be just the kind of outrageous act, defying convention and challenging popular ideas of decency, that puts freedom of expression to the test?

There is a difference between being brave and being funny
https://medium.com/@hugorifkind/ther...y-af2f33ded10e

So, it seems to me that the solution to the fear, equivocation and confusion that any liberal satirist might feel right now is not, necessarily, to keep on grinding. Rather, it is ponder why it should be that offending Muslims, actually, isn’t funny. It is to look at their marginalisation in the West; their near invisibility in politics, media, comedy and all the rest of it, and recognise that this is a problem that makes mockery, which is vital for everyone, far more complex.

It is to look forward to an age when Islam, with all its pompousness, nonsense and backwardness, is as much of an ignored, background hobbyish hum in British national life as any other major religion you could name. With laughable piety on Thought For The Day, and lofty weirdos in skirts in the House of Lords. All of it. And then, when the afflicted are as comfortable as anyone else? Well. Then we can really start taking the piss.

https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-...end-solidarity
https://twitter.com/DanielWickham93

So here are some of the staunch defenders of the free press attending the solidarity rally in Paris today...

20) PM Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian and threatened prosecution http://en.rsf.org/uk-government-s-cu...013,45073.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 1h 1 hour ago

19) Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party http://en.rsf.org/poland-violating-c...014,46487.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where "blasphemy" is considered a criminal offense http://en.rsf.org/ireland-making-bla...010,35672.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

17) Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for "defamation" in 2013 http://en.rsf.org/slovenia-blogger-g...013,44621.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

16) Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013 http://www.jpost.com/National-News/P...g-Abbas-308014 …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

15) Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...723850815.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

14) The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them) http://cpj.org/2014/02/attacks-on-th...13-bahrain.php …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

13) President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses https://cpj.org/2013/05/malian-army-...t-from-gao.php …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in '99 http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-u...bings-20090423 …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 2h 2 hours ago

11) Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year http://en.rsf.org/greece-riot-police...014,46435.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...d-in-ferguson/ …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

9) The PMs of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journos http://en.rsf.org/bulgarie-police-at...013,44980.html … http://en.rsf.org/georgie-at-least-a...011,40365.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

8) Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for "defaming the army" http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/tunis...sed-2015-01-06 …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

7) The Foreign Minister of the UAE, which in 2013 held a journo incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links https://cpj.org/2013/08/uae-authorit...list-after.php …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

6) Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charge http://en.rsf.org/algerie-journalist...014,47235.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

5) Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for "insulting a government servant" http://en.rsf.org/russie-journalist-...014,46974.html …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 3h 3 hours ago

4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/1...e-behind-bars/ …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 4h 4 hours ago

3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-baro...tml?annee=2014 …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 4h 4 hours ago

2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world http://www.theguardian.com/media/gre...-safety-turkey …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 4h 4 hours ago

1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-P...d-labor-341596 …
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Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93 · 4h 4 hours ago

[kuronosan]

France doing work.

[vagus]

#nonewfriends

[Gredival]

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/10/7524731...-charlie-hebdo

This is why blanket categorization of Muslims is bad. Even if Islam as a religion was naturally more inclined to radicalist tendencies due to extreme language or what not, the chances that anyone affected by this violence were violent Jihadists are astronomically low.

[Mazmaz]

Well handled I think

https://audioboom.com/boos/2784684-a...r-charliehebdo

[notorious bum]

A shocking discovery on the sham demonstration and vomit-inducing hypocrisy.

[notorious bum]