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Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo in San Francisco (AP)

California Mourns Charlie Hebdo Attack, Defies Islamists

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.

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California’s Royce: Hebdo Attack Struck ‘Pillar of Civilized World’

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.”

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Bloomberg: Don’t Judge Immigrants by Charlie Hebdo Massacre; 9/11 Terrorists Were Just ‘Visitors’

An op-ed by the editors of Bloomberg equates “anti-immigration nativists” with the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered the staff of Charlie Hebdo Magazine Wednesday. In its rush to attack anti-immigration activists, the piece says immigration had nothing to do with 9/11, calling the terror attack’s perpetrators “outsiders who entered the country as visitors.”

A man holds a placard that reads, "I prefer to die standing than live on my knees", during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris at Republique square January 7, 2015.

Je Suis Charlie: Thousands of Parisians Show Support for Charlie Hebdo

Two gunmen slaughtered twelve people in broad daylight at the headquarters of Charlie Hedbo, a satirical newspaper in Paris. The gunmen targeted the cartoonists over the publication of cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed. Instead of submitting to terrorists, Parisians marched into the streets Wednesday night to show solidarity and support for the publication.

At least 11 dead in shooting at French satirical magazine

Charlie Hebdo: Martyrs for the Truth

With the massacre of Charlie Hebdo magazine’s editors and cartoonists in Paris by Islamic gunmen early Wednesday afternoon, the forces of radical Islam lay the gauntlet down: radical Islam is not just fighting against Western freedom, or the hegemony of Western powers. Their real enemy is truth.

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‘Allah is the Greatest’: Islamists Celebrated Charlie Hebdo Attack on Social Media

Radical Islamists and supporters of jihad on social media used Twitter to celebrate the three gunmen who killed twelve people and wounded nearly a dozen others at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. The attack, a retaliation against the magazine for publishing satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad, received support and justification. All of these accounts talk about jihad and the Islamic State regularly, interrupting their ISIS updates to praise the attack.

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Watch: Islamic Terrorists Murder French Police Officer

The latest footage of the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The two gunmen demonstrate the ‘double tap’ method of using an automatic weapon, their tactics suggest military training. The video shows the moment the two killed a