A man claiming to be the leader of Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has appeared in a new video this week praising the organizers of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, condemning the Western nation’s “religion of democracy” and proclaiming that his terrorist group is “very happy” with the attack.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair argued that while “there is no justification” for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, it isn’t “very sensible to insult someone” in an interview CNN’s Jake Tapper released on Thursday. In reaction to Pope Francis’
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) gave one of the Charlie Hebdo jihadi killers $20,000 three years ago to conduct terror operations abroad, according to two unnamed counterterrorism officials speaking to ABC News on Thursday.
“I believe that religious freedom and freedom of speech are both fundamental human rights,” Pope Francis said on his flight to the Philippines Thursday morning. But “freedom of expression has limits,” he added.
The Daily Mail has published the first moving images of the tense hostage situation unfolding inside a kosher deli in Paris, which was attacked by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly on January 9.
Printed with $300,000 in assistance from Google, Charlie Hebdo returned to the stands with a post-attack edition that sold out before dawn on the day it was released, leading to an increased print run of 3 million copies – more than fifty times the previous weekly circulation of the magazine.
In an appearance on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Wednesday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan reacted to the week’s events tied to the terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. According to Buchanan, Charlie Hebdo effort
A Palestinian journalist has penned an open letter to French President François Hollande, protesting the fact that France invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to participate in last Sunday’s march in Paris against terror and in memory of the slain journalists of Charlie Hebdo. “Abbas is personally responsible for punishing Palestinian journalists who dare to criticize him or express their views in public,” the letter declares.
The Charlie Hebdo terrorists didn’t commit an act of terror, go out for a scotch, and then fix on an Islamic excuse. They shouted “Allahu Akhbar” and “we have avenged the prophet Mohammed” between firing rounds at innocent people. So either they were extremely quick thinkers on their feet, or they had an actual settled ideology motivating them to murder innocent people.
The French government has arrested at least 54 individuals in the past week for what it is defining as “hate speech” and “defending terrorism,” including a well-known comic with an extensive record of anti-Semitic remarks.
Sky News, a British news channel, cut short a live interview with a former Charlie Hebdo editor after she held a copy of the latest issue before the camera. Caroline Fourest is a French feminist and former editor of Charlie
Sky News cut off the French journalist Caroline Fourest when she tried to display the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo, claiming it breached their editorial policy. Fourest was making the point that British journalists had let down the profession for refusing
A number of prominent imams and clerics spoke out against the newest cover of Charlie Hebdo, which shows a crying Mohammed with a sign that said “Je Suis Charlie.” Hate preacher Anjem Choudary called it an “act of war.” Lesser known self-proclaimed teachers of Islam used social media to condemn the cover. These names may not be familiar, but they have between 3,000 and 36,000 followers on Twitter. They are followed by many of the Twitter accounts that Breitbart News regularly publishes to expose the insanity of radical Islamists.
Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a Muslim and author of “In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom,” argued that Americans should stop avoiding the term “Islamist” to describe terrorists on Wednesday’s “New Day” on CNN.
CNN host Michael Smerconsih criticized the Obama administration for not using the phrase “radical Islam” on Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “I think it’s dishonest by omission. Nobody is suggesting that we should describe these terror acts as having been committed by
In an appearance Wednesday on Sky News, Charlie Hebdo writer Caroline Fourest attempted to show the cover of her magazine’s new issue featuring Mohammed, but as soon as she did so the network cut away and the anchor hosting that
The movement in Ireland to challenge Irish anti-blasphemy laws via referendum is gaining momentum after last week’s Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo, but had already been underway for some time.
The human rights advocacy group the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) announced on Tuesday that it will be holding a demonstration in defense of the freedom of speech on Saturday, January 17 in Garland, Texas, outside a conference on “Islamophobia” that seeks to stifle opposition to jihad terror and restrict the freedom of speech.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to accuse the French government of either allowing or deliberately engineering the Charlie Hebdo massacre as a means to discredit Islam in new remarks, in which he asserts that Muslims “have never taken part in terrorist massacres.”
The newest Charlie Hebdo magazine, which went on sale throughout France Wednesday, reportedly sold out almost immediately. The three million copy print run has now been boosted to five million, AFP reports.
Fresh off the circuit from a visit to Paris, during which she marched alongside world leaders against the terrorism that took the lives of 17 people at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined a march in her own country organized by Muslim and Turkish community groups calling for an even more “open and tolerant” Germany and to counter anti-Islam protests that have been taking the nation by storm.
Throughout many schools in France, Muslim students refused to comply with a moment of silence to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. While some spoke obnoxiously loudly during the 60 second period, others yelled “Allahu Akbar!” or “God is great.” In another incident, a group of young Muslims dishonored the moment of silence, telling their teacher, “You reap what you sow,” the Washington Post reports.
Police raided the offices of Cumhuriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, on January 14 in an attempt to prevent the newspaper from publishing a special Turkish edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, intended as an attack on the government’s increasingly Islamist rule over the NATO country.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the jihadist group’s affiliate in North Africa, has threatened France with more attacks.
Renald Luzier, also known as “Luz,” is the French cartoonist for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo who escaped dying at the hands of jihadists terrorists by oversleeping the day his magazine’s headquarters office was attacked. As one of the few surviving members of the magazine’s senior leadership, he is responsible for the first Charlie Hebdo cover since the slaughter and explained in a press conference why Muhammad needed to appear on the magazine again.
