Gun attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo kills 11

[Thor]

Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 10, French officials say.

Witnesses spoke of sustained gunfire at the office as the attackers opened fire with assault rifles before escaping.

Police have launched a major operation in the Paris area in their hunt for the attackers.

Charlie's latest tweet was a cartoon of the Islamic State militant group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The satirical weekly has courted controversy in the past with its irreverent take on news and current affairs.

The magazine was fire-bombed in November 2011 a day after it carried a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.

President Francois Hollande is at the scene and is planning to hold an emergency cabinet meeting.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883

Here is the tweet that apperantly caused this, anyone want to translate?

[Thor]

Also if you are on twitter, a good solidarity move with these journalists is to retweet the image.

https://twitter.com/Charlie_Hebdo_

Here is the specific Tweet: https://twitter.com/Charlie_Hebdo_/s...73881283764224

[burn_this_city]

Sickening

[Thor]

Apparently this is the offending image:

[burn_this_city]

The Bagdadi says Happy New Year and especially health.

[J pold]

Cowards.

[Resolute 14]

So, massive uptick in the number of Muhammad drawings circulating the internet in 3... 2... 1...

[Ducay]

Man, muslims as a whole have to get their extremism/radicalization problems under control.

Probably just a group of young, newly radicalized muslims from the outer Paris 'burbs that wanted to be heros. Such a waste.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Man, muslims as a whole have to get their extremism/radicalization problems under control.

Believe it or not Ezra Levant actually had a really good piece yesterday on a speech Egypt's Prime Minister gave on this very subject:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/01/05...ous-revolution

[neo45]

Can't believe some people are delusional to the point where those cartoons are offensive and an acceptable punishment is 12 people dead.

[Ducay]

Reminds me of this cartoon/article, which sums the whole thing up pretty well.


NSFW
http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-...s-image,29553/

NSFW!

Originally Posted by theonion.com

WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened, sources reported Thursday. The image of the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist, reportedly went online at 6:45 p.m. EDT, after which not a single bomb threat was made against the organization responsible, nor did the person who created the cartoon go home fearing for his life in any way. Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day.

[shermanator]

This picture circulating on Twitter sums up my thoughts on the issue:

[Wood]

From Reddit: Charb, one of the caricaturists killed today, said earlier, after receiving death threats from islamists: "I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. It perhaps sounds a bit pompous, but I prefer to die standing than living on my knees."

http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/charli...1894661_23.php

[polak]

A "few bad apples".

Seems to be a lot of these bad apples...

[undercoverbrother]

Sometimes it is hard not to hate.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by polak

A "few bad apples".

Seems to be a lot of these bad apples...

There are approximately 4.7M Muslims living in France currently (source). Statistically, it really is only a very, very tiny percentage who are "bad apples".

[nik-]

how strong is your faith if you have to murder those that criticize it?

[Muta]

Religion, and its teachings, is such a problem sometimes. These types of incidents embarrass us as a species.

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

There are approximately 4.7M Muslims living in France currently (source). Statistically, it really is only a very, very tiny percentage who are "bad apples".

What do you mean though? The number who actually commit these acts, or the number that condone and support?

Only did a quick search, but according to a 2007 Pew research poll on the use of violence against civilians in the name of Islam:
-64% of Muslims in France believed it could never be justified, 19% believed it could be justified rarely, 10% sometimes, and 6% thought it could be justified often.

[CaptainCrunch]

There will be a serious lash back in Europe and specifically England, France and Germany against Immigration from Muslim nations after this.

For all we know it could be radicalized locals, we've seen a massive uptick on this as well. They were described as speaking perfect french, not that that's a clue to their origins.

These radicals want to stir up hatred against the local Muslim population to widen the gap and increase the anger. This will succeed.

Its not really about the moderate Muslims decrying these events, its more along the lines of increased security now, and looking at the Mosques where these nutbars attended.

This is a very tragic event. If people don't think that the French will retaliate in the harshest manner possible they're foolish.

The French are fairly ruthless when it comes to these things.