Corinne Rey, a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist know as “Coco” who was the first to encounter the terrorists that massacred twelve at the satirical magazine’s headquarters, told French media that the men identified themselves as Al Qaeda and threatened the life of her daughter in order to get through.
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to the US Congress declared that terrorist attacks are “about power” and that terrorists “kill people under the veneer of Islam” on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “I think it’s important
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has become internationally synonymous with free speech after yesterday’s brutal massacre at their headquarters, perpetrated by radical Islamists seeking revenge for their mockery of Muhammad. The magazine regularly mocks Muhammad, Jesus Christ, both specific Popes and the papacy in general, and other religious figures, which appears to have led to some misconception that religious satire is their only trade.
On Wednesday night, CNN International Correspondent Jim Clancy entered full meltdown mode on Twitter after critics fired back at his assertion that magazine Charlie Hebdo’s Prophet Muhammad cartoons did not criticize the prophet. Clancy went on a conspiratorial and borderline anti-Semitic tirade, accusing those who disagreed with him as being propagandists for Israel.
I don’t much feel like re-posting the Muhammad cartoons for which Charlie Hebdo became famous. It’s not a matter of fear, or political correctness. A decade ago, I was living in the heart of the Muslim community in Cape Town, writing articles against fundamentalism and in defense of the U.S. and Israel even while I enjoyed breaking Ramadan fasts with friends and neighbors. I did so at some considerable risk to my personal safety. I was lucky to meet religious Muslims who wanted nothing to do with violence–and it is precisely because of those relationships that I choose not to offend, even while standing with Charlie Hebdo.
The manhunt continues into Thursday for the two jihadist gunmen suspected of slaughtering twelve individuals at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. French officials have attempted to zero-in on their location exact location throughout the day.
In the wake of the January 7 armed terrorist attack in Paris, real estate tycoon and social commentator Donald Trump said the attack proved the truth of the maxim, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
(Reuters) – Anti-immigrant groups in Germany seized on Wednesday’s deadly attack in Paris, with leaders of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and PEGIDA saying it showed the threat of Islamist violence.
There is already a historic, growing war going on in the Mideast and south Asia, with jihadist Muslims killing thousands of other Muslims every month. This is a growing war, and it’s both ethnic (pitting tribe against tribe) and sectarian (pitting Sunnis against Shias).
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Front National, has reaffirmed her commitment to giving the French people a referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty. Remarking she would reintroduce capital punishment were she to succeed in the 2017 presidential
Hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets across California in spontaneous protests against the Islamist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo” on Wednesday, which claimed the lives of 12 journalists, cartoonists, security personnel and police officers. The demonstrators expressed their solidarity with the newspaper, with the French people, with freedom of expression–and against radical Islam.
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) issued a statement in response to Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack at the offices of the the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 lives were brutally taken. Rep. Royce expressed how the “disturbing” incident was a direct attack on free speech, which he described as a main “pillar of the civilized world.”
Far left wing campaign group Hope Not Hate has performed an abrupt u-turn on their views over the content of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following the tragic deaths of twelve people yesterday including the well known editor and its
German president Angela Merkel, who was visiting London for talks on the European Union during the Charlie Hebdo shootings yesterday, joined British Prime Minister David Cameron for a intelligence briefing by MI5 and MI6. Although Germany is a close ally of
A former writer for Charlie Hebdo has said the next edition of the magazine will be published as usual next week despite the murder of ten of its journalists yesterday. Caroline Fourest, who worked for the satirical magazine in 2011,
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in today’s edition of the Daily Mail Private Eye editor Ian Hislop said the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting had ‘paid a very high price for exercising their comic liberty’. The satirical magazine
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in today’s edition of the Daily Mail. The cold-blooded outrage in Paris is not a story about one magazine or one country – and it is not just about freedom of the Press. It
A huge manhunt is underway in France for two suspected gunmen in the terror attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French police have released images of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s, who are suspected
Outspoken liberal comedian Bill Maher took to social media on Wednesday, illustrating his longstanding belief that Islam is not a religion of peace, following the brutal terrorist attacks by radical Muslims at the offices of the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine. In his
London Imam Anjem Choudary said that “you can see very well now in Paris, what the consequences of insulting the prophet are” and you need to understand that in Islam, this [insulting Mohammed] carries capital punishment” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the
Hollywood celebrities and industry players responded Wednesday to the brutal terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters in France, which claimed the lives of 12 people.
Comedian Conan O’Brien declared that having to “think twice before making a joke” is “not the way it’s supposed to be” in a monologue discussion the terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France set to air on his TBS show on
NBC News Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann argued that while there was “no excuse” for the terrorist attacks on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France should try to deal with its Islamophobia and that “will hopefully help dissuade” potential terrorists on Wednesday’s
On Wednesday, the Fox News Channel’s “On the Record” host Greta Van Susteren argued that the news media should show the cartoons run by French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the deadly terrorist attacks against the paper.
U.S. counterterrorism officials report one of three suspects who attacked Charlie Hebdo has been killed and the two others are in custody.
