Up to 3 million copies of Charlie Hebdo could hit newsstands this week, dwarfing its usual print run of 60,000, in response to soaring demand for the first edition of the satirical weekly since last week\’s deadly attacks by Islamist militants.
Cartoonists and writers defended freedom of expression after Wednesday\’s attack on a satirical magazine in Paris but the reality for some artists accused of insulting Islam has been years in hiding, police protection and, for some, censorship.
A fighter of the Islamic State militant group praised Wednesday\’s attack on a French satirical magazine that killed at least 12 people, telling Reuters the raid was revenge for insults against Islam.
Police are searching for two brothers from the Paris region and a man from the northeastern city of Reims, all French nationals, over Wednesday\’s shooting attack at satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police official and government source said.
“We are avenging Mohammed!” the attackers shouted as they went about their murderous business against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris Wednesday morning, as can be seen on witness videos.
Why did Israel gain control over the Temple Mount in 1967 and not establish any religious or cultural presence on Judaism\’s holiest site?
Meat sold in Britain should be labeled if the animal has not been stunned before slaughter, a British lawmaker said.
There is apparently no amount of mass murder, no number of innocents tortured or women raped, no amount of female degradation, no number of people enslaved, no number of Christians expelled from or murdered in the Middle East, no amount of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in its societies, no number of beheadings or even crucifixions, and no amount of terror that allows criticism of Islam.
The deadliest attack on Egyptian soldiers since the new government of Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi took office is affecting not only Egypt, but Israel and the Palestinians as well.
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