More on this morning's deadly jihadist commando strike against French free speech:
Up to eleven people were killed and five left critically wounded today when armed gunmen carried out a ‘massacre’ at the offices of a notoriously anti-Islamic satirical magazine in Paris.
Two masked men brandishing Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers burst into the Charlie Hebdo headquarters, opening fire on staff.
By midday, there were reports of up to eleven people dead and ten wounded, five critically, including journalists, administrative staff, and police officers who attended the scene.
Pierre de Cossette, a broadcast journalist with Europe1 News, said: ‘Several men in black cagoules were heard to shout “the Prophet has been avenged”.’ ……
There were reports that the gunmen were looking for people by name.
The latest tweet published by the magazine’s official Twitter account featured a cartoon of Abu Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State.
After the shooting, hundreds of comments were posted on the Charlie Hebdo Twitter page, with one user, David Rault, writing: ‘A sad day for freedom of expression.’
The offices of the same magazine were burnt down in a petrol attack in 2011 after running a magazine cover of the Prophet Mohammed as a cartoon character.
Look up some of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, and several things become immediately apparent: They're lewd, they're crude, they redefine the phrase "poor taste," they, yes, blaspheme, they take absolutely no prisoners - and nobody escapes their drecky wrath:
At the time, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Stephane Charbonnier, said Islam could not be excluded from freedom of the press.
He said: ‘If we can poke fun at everything in France, if we can talk about anything in France apart from Islam or the consequences of Islamism, that is annoying.’
I cannot reasonably or in good conscience attribute nobility or honor to the boss of a publication that depicts the Second Person of the Trinity leeringly contemplating a large rubber phallus in one panel, but I can't fault Charbonnier's evenhandedness for being willing to show Mohammed merrily sodomizing a pig in the next. Or at least sporting a big red clown nose. Especially given that Monsieur Charbonnier was willing to, and did, die for that belief in freedom of expression.
What didn't lack for nobility and inspiration was the mass public demonstration of Frenchies in defense of free speech - or at least that of Charlie Hebdo's - and against Islamic repression:
We'll see if this popular sentiment when the direct target of Islamic jihadists translates over to how the European Union views their counterparts in the Middle East and Israel, but that's another topic.
For now, the contrast is between Frenchmen manning the barricades of old when attacked by Muslims and this....shall we say, thoroughly scrubbed and sanitized statement issued by the Obama White House:
France is America’s oldest ally, and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world. Time and again, the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended. France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. We are in touch with French officials and I have directed my administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.
In an official communique about an attack in which the attackers cried "Allahu Ackbar!" and "The Prophet has been avenged!," nowhere in the 103 words are the words "Muslim," "Islam," "Islamic," "jihad," or "jihadist" mentioned or even hinted at. I suppose we should consider it progress that they're willing to use the term "terrorist".
But in case there was any doubt about the Islamophilia of a Regime that is in hot, steamy, passionate love with the Muslim Brotherhood, White House spokesjerk Josh Earnest promptly removed it:
This violent extremism is something that the world has been dealing with for more than a decade now. And we obviously are trying to monitor what we consider to be a really important threat, which is this threat of foreign fighters. So it is clear that ISIL does harbor the ambition to try and radicalize people all across the globe, and one core component of our strategy has been to mobilize the …leaders in the Muslim community, particularly the moderate voices in the Muslim community, to talk about what the values of Islam really are. It’s a peaceful religion. And it’s terrible that we’re seeing some radical extremists attempt to use some of the values and tenets of that religion and distort them greatly and inspire people to commit terrible acts of violence.
"Violent extremism" IS the "values and tenets of that religion," Josh. It's made more day-glo obvious with each successive jihadist atrocity. And with each successive jihadist atrocity, you bitterly cling even more tightly to your toadying dhimmism like you do your large rubber phallus every night. If your boss wasn't the one "god" Charlie Hebdo won't desecrate, he'd probably be on their cover bending over every other week.
Exit punchline: Guess who urged Charlie Hebdo to knock off the Muslim satirizing a couple of years back?:
“We have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, while adding “it is not in any way justification for violence. We don’t question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it,” Carney said.
It's almost as if they knew the jihadists were coming, and why. Which, by their own standards, is kind of Islmophobic, come to think of it.
But then King Hussein himself did say:
Now Charlie Hebdo won't be a part of that future.
You'd think the White House would be congratulating the attackers. And they probably would be, if that clanging clash with its gun-control extremism wouldn't be so cacophonously deafening.
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