On Wednesday, two Islamic extremists assassinated 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The next day, a police officer was killed by a pair of gunmen in another corner of Paris in an apparently related incident. Today, French authorities faced hostage crises at a kosher supermarket in the city, and at a printing plant outside the city. By the end of the week, the death toll was up to twenty – 17 victims and 3 perpetrators – in an tragic week people are starting to call France’s 9/11.
I think this was all a huge mistake. the Charlie Hebdo artists were making a satirical joke and never intended to get this violent of a response. of course satire is meant for people to feel something but i never in a million years would think that thirteen people would be killed over a comic. Charlie hebdo had the right to do what they did but can also why the extremists might have what they did.
