U.S. #Republicans Charlie Hebdo: Don’t blame this bloodshed on France’s Muslims | Nabila Ramdani htt
I saw this tweet. And also just listened to Amy Goodman. She had a guest on talking about this.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/france-bloody-intolerant-history-bloodshed-muslims
U.S. #Republicans Charlie Hebdo: Don’t blame this bloodshed on France’s Muslims | Nabila Ramdani http://gu.com/p/44yqc/stw #ParisAttacks
The imam of the Drancy mosque in Paris leaves flowers and prays near the Charlie Hebdo offices. Photograph: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images
Charlie Hebdo: Don’t blame this bloodshed on France’s Muslims
Nabila Ramdani
We were appalled by the murders yet now find ourselves facing a violent backlash
Drancy imam
Thursday 8 January 2015 16.26 EST
Those of us trying to make sense of the Charlie Hebdo massacre need to understand the bloody history of my home city, Paris. That four hugely popular cartoonists were considered legitimate targets by murderers said to have been living within a few miles of the Louvre and other global symbols of liberal Gallic civilisation doesn’t seem possible: donnish satirists are not meant to be gunned down in quaint Paris arrondissements any more than municipal policemen used to dealing with traffic and tourists.
Sadly, the French capital has been associated with some of the worst barbarism in human history.
The Terror started by the 1789 Revolution led to tens of thousands of deaths, with many of its victims guillotined in front of vengeful crowds. Savage mass murders continued on squares and boulevards throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, through the Commune and two world wars, the second of which saw tens of thousands of Jews persecuted before being sent to their deaths in concentration camps. Postwar, many of the Gestapo-trained gendarmes involved in the those atrocities showed a fresh brutality to Algerians displaced by their own nation’s fight for independence from France.
The three French-Algerian men believed responsible for the 12 deaths in Paris on Wednesday would have been steeped in a recent history of this conflict which, in the 1960s, was exported from the battlefields of Algeria to Paris itself. During one notorious atrocity in 1961, up to 200 Algerians were slaughtered around national monuments, including the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral. Many were tossed into the Seine from some of the most beautiful bridges in the world and left to drown........
