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The shooting wasn't merely about the freedom of satire. Not really. Let's complicate the story.
The Kouachi brothers were Algerian and you can't ignore the history of French colonialism in Algeria as the antecedent to this attack. This isn't just about secularism and blasphemy, that's only the surface. It's about racism and colonialism and imperialism. Don't think of this only as religious fanatics angry because infidels insulted the Prophet Mohammad, think of this as an oppressed racial group lashing out at a racist society and it being channeled through Islam. There's a deeper tension here than just the religious surface.
Now, as for my opinion?
Racist satire should be illegal and that racists should be put into reeducation camps to be rehabilitated.
Also! Adventurism is bad and people should get organized into a Party, not do vigilante attacks on racists.
You sound really excited to put people into camps
The state didn't protect these cartoonists, and it won't be there for you or me either.
We are responsible for our own security, like it or not.
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