(Reuters) - A fighter of the Islamic State militant group praised Wednesday's attack on a French satirical magazine that killed at least 12 people, telling Reuters the raid was revenge for insults against Islam.
Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo in the worst militant assault on French soil in recent decades. The dead included top editors at Charlie Hebdo, a publication renowned for lampooning Islam, as well as two police officers.
"The lions of Islam have avenged our Prophet," said Abu Mussab, a Syrian who fights with the Islamic State, which has captured broad swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory.
"These are our lions. It's the first drops - more will follow," he said, speaking via an internet connection from Syria. He added that he and his fellow fighters were happy about the incident.
"Let these crusaders be scared because they should be."
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I don't think war crimes commiting, slave-driving, child-raping religious fanatics and maniacs are habilitated to give the world morality lessons.
And Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers are still dead, ironically the first in a kasher grocery and the seconds in a printing mill.
Wow, you guys really do get upset over a cartoon. Well, two issues have come up that must be really difficult for you to handle:
* the first post-murder edition of Charlie Hebdo just came out with the Prophet on the front cover; and
* three million French people hit the street to tell Bobo they aren't frightened of him and his "Lions"
Civilization fights back.
The lions of Islam have avenged our Prophet
Except that they published their very next issue with his picture on the front page. Suck on that, terrorist!
I don't like Charlie Hebdo. I don't buy it. Is it so complicated to understand?
(anyways, it couldn't be found this morning. At the railway station, where Charlie is usually not sold, seller got 11, and sold them all between 6:00am & 6:04am. He hopes to get more tomorrow. I did buy le Canard Enchaine instead, a more civilized newspaper that happened to host Cabu).
I have no fears that European culture, in the depths of it's growing rage, will ever forget the lessons of the Holocaust.
But, slowly, the timidity born of Hamburg, Dresden, London and Tokyo is fading from the hearts of the Old World. In time, this filth and his ilk will realise the difference between decadent weakness and civilised restraint.
If they keep pushing, the barbarians will learn that they have no monopoly on savagery. In my darker moods, I think it's taken far too long already.
Oooooh, you killed some cartoonists! I'm literally shaking in my boots!
What amazes me about these people is that they don't seem to know that nobody outside of France knew or cared what Hebdo was before the attack and now that the attacks have happened, everybody sees Islam as the bad guys.
Do they honestly not understand they are only making things worse for themselves?
Moron. Even the IRA managed to work out that killing civillians is entirely counterproductive.
And by the way, the Prophet's aim was to establish an inclusive, unified and civilized society in place of the tribal chaos he saw around him. He'd be deeply ashamed of you and your kind.
So, goatfuckers, how'd that avenging your prophet thing go? I mean sure, the body count is still in your favor, but I'm watching your prophet get R. Kelly'd and laughing my ass off about it.
Thank the pantheon that those cartoonists have a brass set of balls.
@Mister Spak
Another pic:
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The usual circulation of Charlie Hebdo has been around 30,000. For the new edition they've had to print an extra 5,000,000.
The French don't seem very scared of you murdering bastards to me.
@solomongrundy
The bottom line is that they killed Cabu & Wolinski. Everyone who was teenager or adult in France in the 70s, or in the 80s, or in the 90s, is able to identify immediatly Cabu & Wolinski's style. Even those who don't like them(like me. I thought Cabu was so-so, and Wolinsky just full of hate & luxury). Cabu & Wolinski were part of french identity - for the best & the worse - long before meeting their fate. Maybe not for youngster, but the Kouachi brothers were too old not to have them as part of their collective unconsciousness.
They were about to fade, as Charlie Hebdo's sales were slowly dropping, and the newspaper more & more in the red each year. Bound to disappear slowly but surely. And now, they are eternal. They transformed influent people into legends. It's not we're not scared : we are. If they can kill someone as harmless as Cabu, they can kill anyone. But that's part of our fucking identity they tried to kill. Not the best part(at least to my opinion), but still a part of our identity. Of course Charlie will sell millions of their toilet-paper. The advertisment has been so huge. :(
Charb(the killed boss, much younger & far less known) had said "they cannot kill us : it would be a national event". He was wrong. It's been a worldwide event. I never liked his aggressive racist style or his opinions, but he was much, much more clever than those brainless idiots. Even the Hamas & the Hezbollah blamed the attacks.
There is fear in France after the attacks. My muslim colleague knows how one can be radicalized - and she finds absolutely frightening that people like her could end up like that. But fear will not prevent my fellow french people from discovering what Charlie Hebdo really is. That's what freedom of speech is all about. Even if their work is absolute crap I hate, they are allowed to publish it.
To quote Scottish comedian Jerry Sadowitz, a line of his which I heard him utter following the London bombings a few years ago, which summed up the reality succinctly:
"lions of Islam"
cf. Scar
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Let these crusaders be scared because they should be.
People were scared of the Nazis. All the same, it was the Nazis for whom it didn't end well.
@ Glandu
I agree, especially what you said about Cabu and Wolinski. I never liked Charlie and far prefer le Canard Enchaine. Alas, I no longer live in France, so I find it much more difficult to get many of the references these days.
@Glandu and Hasan Prishtina
I too prefers the Canard enchainé and liked better Cabu than Wolinski since the latter sometimes went too far in vulgarity, along with charlie - I don't think featuring God, Jesus and the Holy spirit involved in sodomy was of good taste.
Of note the latest issue of the "duck" featured some pictures Cabu draw for them, alongside his characters mourning, such as Duduche and the officer Krionenbourg.
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