French magazine publishes controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad - many killed in revenge attack

[BigMoaner]

the french intelligence survey had already stopped FIV

The Guardian's Anne Penketh seemingly doesn't understand how the web works:



http://www.theguardian.com/world/li...s-live-updates#block-54ae4f09e4b083a8830fd5eb

christ, how naive!

 

[purves grundy]

Unconfirmed reports they've been spotted...

 

[ddraig]

On a motorway tooled up??

 

[DaveCinzano]

Unconfirmed reports they've been spotted...

On a motorway tooled up??

The two suspects have apparently been located in the Aisne department in Picardie in a car with blacked out number plates. The men are said to be armed and on a motorway heading away from Paris.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/li...s-live-updates#block-54ae5dade4b0c53195a4bd5d

Looks like Pickman's model might have been onto something...

al qaeda en artois et picardy?

 

[Mr Moose]

Should be easy to nab them when they stop at 'Le Pause Bienvenue' for a latte, une 'Ginsters' and a slash.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Succinct post on the topic by comics historian Steve Holland:

[...]

We should not forget that Charlie Hebdo was founded in the ashes of Hara-Kiri Hebdo which dared to link the death of Charles De Gaulle with a then-recent tragedy on its cover ("Bal tragique à Colombey: 1 mort"); the weekly was shut down by France's Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin using a law introduced in 1949 to protect French youth against what we in the UK would, a few years later, call "horror comics".

Marcellin was later forced to resign in 1974 after officers of the Directorate of Territorial Security were caught planting microphones in the offices of the investigative newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné, which ran Cabu's 'Les nouveaux beaufs' comic strip.

The 'beauf' of the title was the kind of arrogant, foul-mannered idiot who would have an opinion on everything based on nothing but his own knee-jerk, ill-informed, often racist or chauvinistic attitudes, broadcast loudly as "only common sense".

I expect the beaufs will be out in full force on social media at the moment, unaware that they were just as likely to be satirised in the pages of Charlie Hebdo as politicians and religious fundamentalists.

If you really want to support the victims of Charlie Hebdo, do so my making sure you're informed before you start forming your opinions about what happened on Wednesday morning. You'll only dishonour their memory by being a beauf.​

http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/je-suis-charlie.html

 

[Pickman's model]

Should be easy to nab them when they stop at 'Le Pause Bienvenue' for a latte, une 'Ginsters' and a slash.

petit chef

 

[butchersapron]

The remaining Hebdo staff say they're bringing out next weeks issue no matter what.

Also of significance, Hollande has requested a meeting with Le Pen.

 

[Mr Moose]

petit chef

Cafe sauvage de haricots?

 

[Sprocket.]

I can't help but think that this is exactly what the Charlie Hebdo attackers wanted.

The hatred and mistrust roll on. These reactions will be viewed as a positive outcome by the instigators and proponents of religious conflict on all sides.

 

[DaveCinzano]

petit chef

Awkward

 

[Dogsauce]

On a motorway tooled up??

Let's hope it's not someone in badly chosen fancy dress, paintballers or members of some re-enactment society.


Given we're still very much in the fog of bullshit stage here, and given the reliability of witness statements translated and passed on third hand it's probably a couple of plumbers dressed for cold weather. There's that ring of 'too good to be true' about the detail of the observation, everything matches too closely what's been reported before. But hey, the press loves the spectacle of a live chase filmed by helicopter, they'll be creaming themselves.

 

[rekil]

Lennon isn't helping.

 

[Pickman's model]

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Lennon isn't helping.

they could have played the famous beatles number, happiness is a warm gun

 

[rekil]

they could have played the famous beatles number, happiness is a warm gun

All the lads have to do is "Act Naturally".

 

[treelover]

It appears to be a (presumably violent) computer game.

Its set in the French Revolution, liberty, equality, fraternity, Je Suis Charlie banners across the city, someone will do it in photo-shop, etc..

 

[Dogsauce]

The ebay sharks are already on the case:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=121538757941

(Amongst a ton of 'Je Suis Charlie' T-shirts)

The world just carries on, doesn't it? There's still people whose first instinct is 'how can I make a few quid off this?'

 

[Pickman's model]

It appears to be a (presumably violent) computer game.

is there something there you object to?

 

[Pickman's model]

The ebay sharks are already on the case:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=121538757941

(Amongst a ton of 'Je Suis Charlie' T-shirts)

The world just carries on, doesn't it? There's still people whose first instinct is 'how can I make a few quid off this?'

turning revulsion into money

 

[hot air baboon]

The world just carries on, doesn't it?

...I'd already forgotten about the Peshawar school massacre tbh....its the total futility of it that's the worst bit...

 

[Pickman's model]

...I'd already forgotten about the Peshawar school massacre tbh....its the total futility of it that's the worst bit...

you should be worrying what else you've forgotten about

 

[hot air baboon]

...well Christmas is starting to become a bit hazy ....

 

[treelover]

The ebay sharks are already on the case:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=121538757941

(Amongst a ton of 'Je Suis Charlie' T-shirts)

The world just carries on, doesn't it? There's still people whose first instinct is 'how can I make a few quid off this?'

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0&_nkw='Je Suis Charlie' &_sacat=0

There are loads, how do they get them out so quick?

and they are selling quick..

actually a fair few of them have a serious statement on the page and donations to amnesty.

 

[Spymaster]

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0&_nkw='Je Suis Charlie' &_sacat=0

There are loads, how do they get them out so quick?

It'd take about 5 minutes to design and start knocking those out if you've got the right kit.

 

[treelover]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JE-SUIS-CHA...-S-XXL-/181635178002?var=&hash=item2a4a4cde12

Only 7.00 with 10% to amnesty, not really profiteering

 

[Jay Park]

because there are no updates do we turn this thread into a load of half arsed, insensitive piffle..........

 

[treelover]

“I am not afraid of reprisals, I have no children, no wife, no car, no debt. It might sound a bit pompous, but I'd prefer to die on my feet rather than living on my knees"


More sensitive?

from 'Nintendocafe'

 

[butchersapron]

The prof, with that unerring tactical sense of his, thinks this is the right time to (re) tweet his they had it coming piece from a few years back:

Alex Callinicos
@alex_callinicos
What I wrote about freedom of speech + Islamophobia back in 2006: Freedom to spread hate? socialistworker.co.uk/art/8058/Freed…?


Hey Muslims, look at me being the best defender of Muslims. Do you want to come to a party?

More in this vein - it's becoming clearer by the minute that this was in fact a vicious attack motivated by islamophobia against the gunmen - we must not let the same happen here. No Pasaran!

 

[butchersapron]

...and how to make the points decently: Blowback in Paris

Recognising that the Paris atrocity is predictable blowback which is likely to worsen as we insist on narrow, reactionary militarised solutions, does not absolve the perpetrators of responsibility for their terrible crimes; but it might help us find a path to safety based on co-existence, renunciation of violence, and unity in adversity.

 

[Jay Park]

more evocative than the shite little chef/ginsters jokes...... smarty bollocks