Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine based in Paris that takes pot shots at everyone in the public eye. A bit like our Private Eye but a bit more daring and in the past they've published cartoons and articles ridiculing Islam and the Muslim faith (prophet) which have been met with fire bombing the offices and death threats and such like

Last week this went up a notch when 3 gunmen calmly walked into their Paris office, asked after journalists and cartoonists and proceeded to shoot them dead. 10 dead workers and 2 policemen on protective duty. One a Muslim as well. Try escaped into Northern France and there was a huge manhunt etc and after a couple of days and a siege they too were shot dead by all the armed police chasing them. At the same time in a coordinated effort a guy in Southern France shot people in a super market so you had two sieges happening at the same time. They also finished at the same time!!

People obviously we're shocked by the attacks and showed support and a degree of solidarity by re-tweeting cartoons condemning them but stopping short of reprinting the offending cartoons. More along the lines of the pen being mightier than the gun. 

It's all so shocking and tragic that religiousness is taken to such an extreme, whichever type of religion it is. 

Missed because of all that you had the Boko Haram movement in Nigeria who executed over 2,000 people in villages they attacked, mostly women and children. Again this is related to Islam and Sharia Law, utter madness it really is. Old style sentiments and understanding in the 20th century just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. 

I hate it