Years of taunting, insulting and humiliating caricatures of the revered prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and immigrants, Blacks and Muslims by the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine has resulted in what the French authorities have long warned against, an explosion of violence leading to the tragic deaths and injuries of over 20 persons. President Hollande described this attack…

I am well aware that I’m stepping into a hornet’s nest by posting this video, which is going viral. Those who wish to silence all debate have an easy card to play here, accusing me of buying into a conspiracy theory. There’s only one problem: unlike the video-maker, I have few conclusions to draw about…

Workers.org   Jan 12, 2015 How do we put in perspective the international media focus on the massacre of 12 journalists in Paris on Jan. 7 at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, notorious for its racist anti-Muslim caricatures and lack of response to the routine, daily, racist police murders of Black youth in the U.S.? Why…

http://gazatimes.blogspot.fr/2015/01/why-i-am-not-charlie-hebdo.html Gaza, January, If you haven’t heard about the “Paris attacks” you probably have been living in a parallel universe. And if you did, then you probably didn’t hear about the police officer Ahmad Merabet, a Muslim, who died while trying to defend Charlie Hebdo even though they were insulting his religion. #JesuisCharlie hashtag took…

Message from the Dispossessed A Message From the Dispossessed “It is dangerous to ignore this rage. But it is even more dangerous to refuse to examine and understand its origins. It did not arise from the Quran or Islam. It arose from mass despair, from palpable conditions of poverty, along with the West’s imperial violence,…

Etrosi, Mayor of Nice, cancels Dieudonne’s performance in Nice and takes legal action against the comedian! The Mayor of Nice has taken out an order forbidding Dieudonne’s performance scheduled for the 25th June in Nikaia. His reason – the comdian’s polemic Facebook status after the recent terrorist attacks. “It is out of question that M…