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Lots of people declared "I am Charlie" because they are brainwashed by the media. Charlie Hebdo doesn't represent freedom of speech. They fired one of their staff for "anti-semitism" and tried to get the Front Nationale banned because of their "hate speech". Charlie Hebdo saying "the Koran is shit, it doesn't stop bullets" after a number of Muslims were massacered sounds pretty hateful.
There were mass killings in other countries around the same time as the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and no one showed solidarity with them.
Well actually, after 9/11 there were journalists who asked bankers and business in the Middle East why America were attacked, and they were told that it was down to the US blocking democracy and supporting and installing dictators for decades and the US's support for Israel's occupation etc. Israel blow up Palestinians and Lebanese in terrorist attacks every few years.
Obama's drone campaign is the definition of terrorism. They pick out someone who is suspected of one day thinking about considering possibly doing something against America/Americans and then bomb the barbecue or funeral the "suspect" is at.
Never mind how you chose to anayse it, never mind how many holes you pick in Charlie Hebdo, I would still say "Je suis Charlie" . It was a gut-response from people all everywhere, and it
was very much about the defending freedom of speech in the minds of the people who said it. It had nothing whatsoever to do with your intellectual nitpicking.
Sure it's worth analysing those things. Sure, it woukld be just as bad if Charliec Hebdo were immune from criticism (which they are very clearly not) as it would be if Islam were immune from criticism. It was what Charlie Hebdo
represented at that moment in time, that really mattered, and that was perfectly clear and obvious.
Brainwashed by the media? Heck, you really are superior aren't you? I wouldn't trust you to lead me, with that attitude, Benji, any more than i would trust some ranting Imam to lead me.