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The Atlantic: Europe is Under Seige

Yesterday, the venerable publication, The New Yorker, came out as anti-Jihadist, and today it is The Atlantic.

Europe Is Under Siege

The European Parliament complex in Brussels, where I happen to be sitting at the moment, is meant to be a monument to post-World War II continental ideals of peaceable integration, tolerance, free speech, and openness. All of these notions seem to be under attack at once, and what is striking to me, as a relatively frequent visitor to Europe over the past year, is that not many people—until a few hours ago, at least—seem to believe that their union, and their basic freedoms, are under threat.

The massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo falls into the category of events that are shocking in their intensity and brutality, but not at all surprising. This attack, which killed at least 12 people, including journalists and two police officers, was utterly, completely predictable. The brittle, peevish, and often-violent campaign to defend the honor of Allah and his prophet (both of whom, one might think, are capable of defending themselves with lightning bolts and cataclysmic floods and such, should they choose to be offended by cartoons) has been pursued in earnest since the 1989 Iranian-led crusade (I use the word advisedly) to have Salman Rushdie murdered for writing a book. In 2011, of course, the offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed—the equivalent of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, an attack that should have told us more about long-term jihadist intentions than it unfortunately did.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

- Liberal Menstrual Rag Sponges Up Some Truth For Once: We Must Talk About Islam: A Faith That Affects Everyone Should Be Susceptible To Critique By All
From Salon: Eight months after it suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo continues to provoke wrongheaded, confused and even cowardly analysis that disregards the facts and betrays a...

- Breaking: Belgian Newspaper, Le Soir, Evacuates After Bomb Threat Over #charliehebdo Coverage
From Yahoo: Brussels (AFP) - The offices of a Belgian newspaper that republished cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were evacuated on Sunday after receiving an anonymous bomb threat, its staff said. The evacuation of Le Soir,...

- Giuliani To Diblasio: Put Cops Back In Mosques After Hebdo Assassinations
Giuliani to DiBlasio: Put cops back in mosques after Hebdo assassinations Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called on current Mayor Bill de Blasio to place NYPD personnel in the city’s mosques yesterday, after Islamic extremists slaughtered the staff of...

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- Another Cartoonifada
UPDATED - Offices Of French Magazine Firebombed and Destroyed After Publishing Mohammed Cartoons This time in France (hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning). From the Daily Telegraph: French satirical newspaper firebombed after prophet...

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