#jesuicharlie  

Never read it before.

Won't ever stop reading it now.

FWIW, yes, that is Mohammed, not just some generic muslim.

Here is the much-anticipated first edition of Charlie Hebdo since last week’s massacre — with a cover proclaiming, “All is forgiven.” It’s not clear if the cartoon on the cover shows a generic Musl…

#jesuischarlie  

Free speech can be ugly, provocative, hateful, boring, juvenile, and lack any redeeming qualities – but it is still worth fighting for.

Those cultures that cannot accept this, and insist on reacting to speech with violence, are our mortal enemies, both on the physical and spiritual plane.  People who insist on "speech codes" or try to prevent "hate speech" or engage in any other sort of censorship enforced by the threat of violence by institutions, governments, or individuals, are evil, and wrong.

The attack on Charle Hebdo is essentially the logical extreme of political correctness – those who have been fighting to make the world conform to their ideas of proper speech are the progenitors of these kinds of terrorist acts.

More than 1 million people filled the boulevards and avenues of central Paris Sunday, walking arm-in-arm in a dramatic procession of national unity in the wake of terrorist attacks that killed 17 people last week.

#jesuicharlie

KYLE: That's because there is no goo, Mr. Cruise. You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we've all wanted to show things that we weren't allowed to show, but it wasn't because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That's obviously the only true power. If there's anything we've all learned, it's that terrorizing people works.

JESUS: That's right. Don't you see, gingers, if you don't want to be made fun of anymore, all you need are guns and bombs to get people to stop.

SANTA: That's right, friends. All you need to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence.

Hear the speech about intimidation and fear Comedy Central was too afraid to play.

#everybodydrawmohammed  

Today’s terror attack on Charlie Hedbo, the irreverent French satirical magazine that was one of the few media outlets in France to publish the original ‘Mohammed cartoons,’ is an attempt by Islamic fundamentalists to enforce shari’a worldwide, even on non-Muslims.We must not let them succeed.Self-censoring out of fear means self-imposition of shari’a (Islamic law).