“Charlie Hebdo was an enemy of Western civilization.”
I alluded to this on another thread the other day & got flamed. While I mourn the deaths of those who were murdered & I do not support Islamic freaks, I also find very little about CH to be supportive of.
Western Civilization recognizes free speech pretty strongly, even when the speakers hate us.
That’s why we’re different. We don’t want to lose that, even though it’s clearly been eroding here in the US.
"CH [Charlie Hebdo] is the Air(head) America of print."
LOL.
From all I have read, which does not include Charlie Hebdo itself, it is a vile publication, pretty much devoid of any true value, dedicated solely to defaming and inflaming others.
Yet it should be protected, and those responsible for these killings ought to be made to pay— and that included persons other than those directly involved in the killings.
“While I mourn the deaths of those who were murdered & I do not support Islamic freaks, I also find very little about CH to be supportive of”
No, I’m not going to subscribe to it, any more than I’m going to subscribe to any number of American publications who haven’t earned my dollar vote of support.
So what? “Je suis Charlie” because there is no equivalence whatsoever between a) people who publish controversial opinions I like or dislike and b) people who commit wholesale murder because someone published something they dislike.