The Lesson of Charlie Hebdo

[Roy Rolling]

So two morons think that murdering the staff of a magazine they disagree with is the way to stop something that offends them.


45,000 - Charlie Hebdo average weekly circulation in 2013
7,000,000 - Charlie Hebdo circulation in a recent week after the killings


How's that strategy of stopping the free press working?

[NYC_SKP]

1. I don't think the attacks had anything to do with images of the Prophet Mohammed.

And I don't think the shooters expected their acts to reduce the publication of these images.

Most fools would have known better than to think that.

Something else was going on here.

[Roy Rolling]

2. Never thought of that

I was just focusing on the explosive growth in circulation.

Good point, though. What else could explain their motive?

[oberliner]

3. Absolutely defies logic that anyone can think this

Of course it has everything to do with images of the Prophet Mohammed.

If the magazine didn't have any such images it would not have been attacked.

To suggest otherwise is preposterous.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Which is my point

If an image of the Prophet Mohammed is a problem, their violent methods have turned a 45,000 problem into a 7,000,000 problem.

Nice going, guys.

[oberliner]

6. Agreed

Hopefully we can someday live in a world where people don't get killed for their cartoons.

[trotsky]

7. Same poster has previously expressed support for the notion that it was a 'false flag' type attack.

Because as we all know, religion can never be implicated in bad things. Only good.

[oberliner]

4. Glad to see the bravery of the Charlie Hebdo survivors

May they continue to publish and flourish.