Apparently not like most people, I find it depressing when the sons-of-bitches win, or even appear to win.
In this case, the Muslims may well have succeeded in killing a magazine that refused to be terrorized into silence, even by violence, by murdering its central figures, including its publisher and leader, Stephane Charbonnier.
12 dead at Charlie Hebdo in Paris
Al-Qaeda gunmen from Yemen, they said, according to a witness who also said they spoke perfect French.
But nobody who wasn't actually born there speaks perfect French to the ears of a Frenchman or Frenchwoman.
The gunmen are still at large.
Islam?
Absolutely the worst religion in the world, today; and its believers are the most dangerous and repulsive.
They have a lot in common with the American leftists who think speech that offends them should be suppressed and those who utter it punished - a standard used repeatedly in Europe to punish advocacy, even by sitting elected officials, of political policies the left disapproves.
To the shame of the American left, who are certainly not ashamed.
Speaking of the left, the usual suspects told the usual lies.
Though they cannot deny this is a Muslim terrorist attack, they deny its all too evident terrorist aim.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has called the Charlie Hebdo attack a “direct assault on democracy, media and freedom of expression”.
He went on:
"We stand with the government and people of France …
"This horrific attack is meant to divide. We must not fall into that trap. This is a moment for solidarity …
"We must stand against the forces of division and hate."
No, that is not what it was meant to do.
It was meant to silence critics of Islam and of the hatred and violence it imposes on the world.
Liberals who talk like Moon are doing the work of the terrorists for them, blaming the victims, striving to silence the opponents of Islam and Muslim terrorism in France.
Salman Rushdie, a foolish, leftist critic of the West until a fatwa condemned him to death, had an interesting tweet.
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion’.
Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
Charbonnier, among the dead, has a history of refusing to buckle to intimidation.
Unlike Rushdie, who is still too stupid or too afraid to note that it is not religion that is the threat but a religion.
Just one.
Charbonnier
Events like this are the best argument for a unified, global war against Muslim violence including American participation proportionate to the risk Islam poses to our interests - where our liberty counts as an essential interest, as does our refusal to be pushed around by the cult warriors of this religion of murderers.
Whatever our differences with the Russians, the Indians, and the Chinese, this is a common interest we should not shirk.
Even at the time, I thought Reagan and his Cold War advisers were fools for what they did in Afghanistan.
Just what we should expect, I suppose, from capitalists and those who think like them.
The whole lot of these philistine Babbits went into a fifty year panic about their beloved market and their beloved private property the day the Russians rolled into Berlin.
Leave it to them to suppose without a moment's doubt that a threat to their property was a much greater threat to Western civilization than the threat of resurgent medieval Islamic totalitarianism.
It is interesting that BBC comes closer to placing blame on Charlie Hebdo than does the generally further left Guardian.
BBC describes it as a "garish, incendiary magazine."
Not that it isn't, mind.
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