Staff / TruthdigJan 8, 2015
The international response to Wednesday's attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been varied and extremely powerful. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigJan 8, 2015
Without Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, it is not at all clear that Sharif Kouachi, one of the gunmen the French police are searching for, would have gotten involved in fundamentalist vigilanteism. And if he hadn’t, he would not have gone on to be a point man in murdering the staff of Charlie Hebdo along with 2 policemen. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 8, 2015
The "Daily Show" host offers his condolences and his take on Wednesday's tragic attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJan 8, 2015
The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Mr. Fish / TruthdigJan 8, 2015
Exercising one’s artistic prerogative to create a drawing that is critical or demeaning of an established religion or political ideology should in no way be construed to equate with kicking a hornet’s nest, which it has been, over and over and over again. Dig deeper
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