France Arrests 54 for Defending Terror

[Torete 121]

http://abcnews/go.com/international/wireStory/charlie-hebdo-sells-dawn-muhammad-cover-28212043

In part:

France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism and announced Wednesday it was sending an aircraft carrier to the Mideast to work more closely with the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants.

In a message distributed to all French prosecutors and judges, the Justice Ministry laid out the legal basis for rounding up those who defend the Paris terror attacks as well as those responsible for racist or anti-Semitic words or acts. The order did not mention Islam.

A top leader of Yemen's al-Qaida branch claimed responsibility Wednesday for the Charlie Hebdo attack, saying in a video the massacre came in "vengeance for the prophet." The newspaper had received repeated threats previously for posting caricatures of Muhammad.

The core of the irreverent newspaper's staff died a week ago when gunmen stormed its offices, killing 12 people and igniting three days of bloodshed around Paris that left 17 victims dead. The attacks ended Friday when security forces killed both gunmen and an accomplice who separately seized hostages at a kosher grocery.

Working out of borrowed offices, Charlie Hebdo employees who survived put out the issue that appeared Wednesday with a print run of 3 million — more than 50 times the paper's usual circulation. After the weekly sold out, kiosk operators told people to return Thursday for a second run.

French police say as many as six members of the terror cell may still be at large, including a man seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen. Officials say the widow is now in Syria. There has been no word on the whereabouts of the driver or the car.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Terrorism and terror are different things. Use the right words!

[Torete 121]

Terrorism and terror are different things. Use the right words!

I didn't write the article therefore your suggestion holds little water with me.

I quoted an article and cited the source.

Deal with it!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Terror is an emotion.

Terrorism is an activity.

[Torete 121]

Terror is an emotion.

Terrorism is an activity.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

It's the French being French. First rule is tell everyone to be nice and don't do mean stuff and note that terror and terrorism are both nouns with one often used when seeing or feeling it and the other delivering it

[Torete 121]

Apparently they're sending their aircraft carrier to the Middle East to crackdown on terror or terrorist speech emanating within France? Full steam ahead!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What's your problem with the French?

[SMOKE 1,426]

What's your problem with the French?

its too sweet for me. catalina has a smokey flavor, which I find more appetizing.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

I love the French. Especially Caroline Fourest.

Watch the Irony That Unfolds After Former Charlie Hebdo Writer Mocks American Press for Refusing to Show Muhammad Cartoons

During an interview that aired Tuesday on MSNBC, journalist Caroline Fourest, a former writer at the French satirical weekly publication Charlie Hebdo, taunted the American press for refusing to air the weekly’s Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

As she called the notion “crazy,” Fourest held up one of Charlie Hebdo’s past editions and told host Ronan Farrow, “In America, you are probably going to blur it.”

And MSNBC did, indeed, blur the image on the cover.

Farrow admitted that some outlets, including NBC and MSNBC, have decided not to show the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

Fourest is one of many writers and cartoonists working together to ensure the publication’s latest issue — which features the Prophet Muhammad on the cover crying and holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign — gets released as scheduled.

“They start again to work,” she said of the staffers. “And I can tell you that on the cartoons that I saw — that you won’t see because you are Americans, sorry for you — there is a very funny, funny one.”

She continued, “You can kill our colleague, you can kill our friends — you won’t kill the spirit of liberty, you won’t kill the spirit of blasphemy. We all insist on that. It’s more than having a sense of humor. The right of doing a blasphemy is just basis of secular democracy.”

Last week, two masked gunmen murdered 12 people, including much of the weekly’s editorial staff and two police officers. It was the beginning of three days of terror that saw 17 people killed before the three Islamic extremist attackers were gunned down by security forces.

Watch more of the interview via MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/13/watch-the-irony-that-unfolds-after-former-charlie-hebdo-writer-mocks-american-press-for-refusing-to-show-muhammad-cartoons/

Edited January 14, 2015 by ExExpat

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

German President said it perfectly yesterday standing side-by-side with Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders as well as with the Chancellor and her cabinet and the leaders of parliament at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: "We don't fear you. Your hatred motivates us. We stand by our country and our values. ... The terrorists (in Paris) wanted to divide us, but they have achieved the opposite: They have united us."

There's no backing down in Europe. There never will be. Freedom of expression and freedom of the press still means something there.