As I mentioned yesterday, the Internet pretty much exploded
with cartoons expressing the sorrow and outrage of the civilized world at
the atrocity at Charlie Hebdo on
Wednesday.
But there was also response from newspapers—actual publications
mixing ink on paper, just as the satirical weekly did to such great effect—which
went straight to the heart of the matter. Because the hooded and masked thugs
who gunned down 12 people in the course of “avenging the Prophet” evidently
thought that ending those particular lives would end the sort of commentary
they’d been making.
And again and again, publishers and editors made it clear on their front pages that this was a fundamentally baseless expectation. I’ll give you two examples,
first from The Independent (UK):
And what has to be
the extremists’ worst nightmare, from B.Z.
(Germany):
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