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LIBBY EMMONS: We have learned nothing from the Charlie Hebdo massacre 10 years on
Have the Islamic extremists been quieted or have they been emboldened?
It's been 10 years since the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, since journalists in the western world proclaimed "I am Charlie" after Islamist brothers stormed the magazine's office and killed 12 people over a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, the revered founder of the Muslim religion. Has the west learned anything or have we further capitulated to extremism in the name of religious tolerance? I think it's surely the latter. 10 years after the brutality of the two brothers who gunned down cartoonists to protect the honor of their religion, Islamist terror attacks are still being carried out and western governments are still downplaying them and protecting those who take offense, where most people would just look the other way. The latest Islamic attack in the US was just about a week ago, on New Year's Day.
"We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad. We have killed Charlie Hebdo!" The brothers shouted this in a gunfight with French police in which they lost their lives. As proponents of free speech shouted their own "I am Charlie" missive in the aftermath, news outlets in the western world did not en masse publish the images that had cost the French cartoonists their lives. Images sending-up and satirizing the Judeo-Christian tradition, images of Jews with large noses and exaggerated peyot, images of Jesus Christ or the Pope, are never censored or bleeped. They are never the cause of terror attacks or murder. Being the "turn the other cheek" lot that we are, Christians leave it be.
The Washington Post, on the same day as the massacre, published an article titled "New organizations wrestle with whether to publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons after attack." It ran in the style section and asked the Shakespearean question "to publish or not to publish?" Buzzfeed and Huffington Post published them in the US, the New York Times and Washington Post did not. The AP even cropped the image of slain editor Stéphane Charbonnier holding up a newspaper with the image printed on it. "We've taken the view that we don't want to publish hate speech or spectacles that offend, provoke or intimidate, or anything that desecrates religious symbols or angers people along religious or ethnic lines," said AP VP Santiago Lyon at the time, as noted by Wapo. "We don't feel that's useful."
LIBBY EMMONS: We have learned nothing from the Charlie Hebdo massacre 10 years on
Have the Islamic extremists been quieted or have they been emboldened?humanevents.com
The leftist elites have sympathy for the Islamists because they see them as victims of colonialism. The Left wishes to destroy the West for past colonial "crimes" and build a socialist utopia from the ashes. In a way, the Left and Islamists are fellow travelers in their war on the West.
