We think the Paris terrorists were offended by Charlie Hebdo's satire. What if we're wrong?

No, I'm a white, middle class, anglo-saxon atheist with a tiny bit of eastern European assimilated Jewishness.

The reason I haven't addressed your point about Islamic beliefs, btw, is firstly that this thread is for an article entitled "We think the Paris terrorists were offended by Charlie Hebdo's satire. What if we're wrong?", I'm guessing you didn't read it. And secondly the point you made is beaming out of practically every mainstream news/opinion outlet and comment section across THE ENTIRE FUCKING WESTERN WORLD. Like it needs one more moron going online to repeat it, proving to the powers that be that their indoctrination worked.

Do you even realise that Hebdo wasn't just publishing cartoons depicting the prophet, they where depicting Muslims as primitive savages? Which may well be true in many places across the world but western Muslims on the whole aren't like that. How do you think that feels to a western Muslim when they are tarred with the same brush? And especially when everyone starts demanding the depiction of the prophet in the name of free speech. Free speech that manages to consistently leave out a slow genocide of Muslims in Palestine?

It's true that some western Muslims believe religious law should be actual law in western countries. Something the western world managed to move away from thank gosh. And most are sensitive about depictions of the prophet. But whats that big deal about respecting a small insignificant part of their belief system. They have to put up with our psychopathic leaders bombing the shit out of Muslim farmers and villagers for reasons we're not allowed to know AKA freedom.

But anyway, thanks for contributing to this "playing into the hands of terrorists" effort, if that is whats happening.

I look forward to showing that you didn't read/comprehend anything I wrote above, again, and wish you a pleasant life, underdeveloped conscious and all.

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