I've seen the fashion to call CH "racist" on Twitter, and it's not true. They ridiculed French intellectual writers (whose sales went through the roof afterwards) and the Catholics and the government and everybody. Which is why I don't necessarily believe the killers were Islamists (and when they announced that one of them lost his identity card in the getaway car this was the moment when I really felt taken for an idiot!). There are lots of people with a motive.
It's totally possible that the journalists who got killed were personally unpleasant people. They certainly enjoyed stirring things up a bit, and you might even say they did not shy back from trouble.
But never, under no circumstances, "trouble" may equal "murder". At least that's what I believe. I could say "Oh well, you're not that innocent" if someone had slashed the tyres of a journalist's car or so. Perhaps. But what happened is not justifiable.
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Date: 2015-01-09 09:23 am (UTC)They ridiculed French intellectual writers (whose sales went through the roof afterwards) and the Catholics and the government and everybody.
Which is why I don't necessarily believe the killers were Islamists (and when they announced that one of them lost his identity card in the getaway car this was the moment when I really felt taken for an idiot!). There are lots of people with a motive.
It's totally possible that the journalists who got killed were personally unpleasant people.
They certainly enjoyed stirring things up a bit, and you might even say they did not shy back from trouble.
But never, under no circumstances, "trouble" may equal "murder".
At least that's what I believe.
I could say "Oh well, you're not that innocent" if someone had slashed the tyres of a journalist's car or so. Perhaps.
But what happened is not justifiable.