Charlie Hebdo to feature murderous God on anniversary cover (dw.com).
“A crazy-eyed, bloodied god figure armed with a Kalashnikov is the cartoon on the cover of the special edition marking the first anniversary of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks in Paris. The headline claims: ‘One year on: The assassin is still at large.’”
A not altogether Islamic but indeed more Judeo-Christian looking “crazy-eyed, bloodied god figure armed with a Kalashnikov” it might be added—which is indeed though the same monotheistic God in the Quran or Holy Bible having killed off any polytheistic competition long ago—reminding that Charlie Hebdo has always ridiculed religion whatever it denomination. Expect Judeo-Christian fundamentalists to react and storm their “new, ultra-secure ultra-secret offices” before the year is out.
“One million copies of the magazine will go on sale on Wednesday, January 6—the eve of the tragedy during which 12 people died at the magazine’s office, including many members of the editorial team. … Despite criticism, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ remains committed to its struggle to ‘laugh at everything,’ said Eric Portheault, the newspaper’s financial director, who survived the attacks by hiding behind his desk when the terrorists stormed in the offices of the magazine.”
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6th January 2016
Charlie Hebdo publishes special edition, year after attack (msn.com/AFP).
“The Vatican criticised the cover for failing to ‘acknowledge or to respect believers’ faith in God, regardless of the religion. Behind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat… using God to justify hatred—is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times.’”
What they “unceasingly repeat” and what they—or rather more often than not, not “they” but religion and its inclusion/exclusion principles and doctrine as a grab bag of sanctimonious power and opportunity for those with agendas which are on the whole just that—is more often than not a moral biblical desert apart though.
7th January 2016
Paris Pays Tribute To Charlie Hebdo Victims (news.sky.com).
“Francois Hollande has led tributes on the first anniversary of the deadly attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket. … Addressing members of France’s security forces in Paris … ‘Today I would like to express our appreciation, the nation’s appreciation, to those in January and November who took risks to deal with enemies determined to kill using all means,’ he said.”
But the day was not without incident, prehaps reminding there are still root causes—whichever one you would like to pick from whichever part of an agenda you stand—to address:
Officials: Man with knife shot dead at Paris police station (msn.com/AP).
“PARIS—Officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man wearing a fake explosive vest at a police station in northern Paris on Thursday, French officials said … Luc Poignant, a police union official, said the man cried out ‘Allahu akbar,’ Arabic for ‘God is great.’”
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