Shooting at Satirical magazine in France

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Jihadin wrote:
Wonder if Spiritual Leaders of Islam are going to condemned the attack.

Of course they will, and they'll remind us how Islam is the religion of peace while they're at it.

And the best part? We'll believe them and carry on as if this were (yet another) isolated incident totally unrelated to all the others...

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Mmm... bacon bullets...

(/Homer Simpsom)

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mitch_rifle wrote:
It happened with christianity and look how much western civilisation has progressed in the past 500 years. I don't need to follow christianity and openly so and don't have to be worried about being brutally tortured/murdered.

We've gone through our* Reformation/Renaissance. They haven't yet, and are still in the societal equivalent of the Europe's Middle Ages. When they do thing'll mellow.

*And I say 'our' in the full knowledge that my country, the US, Canadia and NZ did not exist as they do today at the time.

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daedalus wrote:
There've been a handful of them. None quite so... worldwide... though. They certainly haven't attacked people continents away over... well, anything.

And certainly not for drawing a mother fething picture...

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H.B.M.C. wrote:
We've gone through our* Reformation/Renaissance. They haven't yet, and are still in the societal equivalent of the Europe's Middle Ages. When they do thing'll mellow.

I'm bringing this back here because Egypt's president just gave a speech in which he said:

I say and repeat again that we are in need of a religious revolution. You, imams, are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move… because this umma* is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.

*"umma" could refer to Eygpt, or the Muslim world itself. That isn't clear from the translation.

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Medium of Death wrote:
Military dictator calls for more peaceful Islam.

Would you rather he be a theocratic dictator?

The devil you know/lesser evil/etc.

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thedarkavenger wrote:
Why would you shoot at an innocent magazine?!

Because they drew a picture.

Yes. That's the reason.

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I was really hoping that they'd get caught.

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Orlanth wrote:
"I am not Charlie, I am Ahmed the dead cop. Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so," wrote the Twitter user Dyab Abou Jahjah.

"I am not Charlie, I am Matt the regular guy. Comedians, public figures, people online, people in real life and all sorts of other groups ridicule my faith and culture all the damned time, and I've never once declared that I'm going to avenge anyone for it."

Smacks wrote:
I am reminded of this image:

Spoiler:

You might think Christianity has been tamed, but as a non-religious person, I find all extremism looks very similar. Christianity might not be acting-up as much Islam right now, but it still has plenty of crazy and non-too-bright followers, ready to ~~die~~ kill for what they believe (which is pretty much anything they see on Fox news).

Question: The woman on the left, what group is she part of?