It was reported that the Paris office of the rude and provocative political magazine "Charlie Hebdo" was attacked by a pair of Muslim gunmen who killed the editor, Stephane Charbonnier ("Charb"), and several other staff members who had repeatedly mocked and insulted their religious beliefs for years. There is no justification for such violence in a civilized society. However, as one writer points out, they literally asked for it and even specified the timeframe:

"The folks at Charlie Hebdo had it coming... I would even argue that this is how Charlie Hebdo made it's money, daring the "Muslim train" to run them over. You think I am exaggerating? Check out the caricature (image here) which one of the folks [Charb] who got murdered yesterday had just posted. The text reads: "Still no terrorist attacks in France -- 'Wait!, we have until the end of January to send you our best wishes!'". The crazy person shown in the drawing is packing a Kalashnikov rifle and wearing an Afghan "Pakol" -- the typical "crazy Muslim" in Charlie Hebdo's world. Talk about a stupid dare...[premonition? self-fulfilling prophecy?]

The fact is that the Anglo-Zionists [and their NATO partners] have carefully and lovingly nurtured, organized, armed, financed, trained, equipped and even directed the Takfiri crazies for decades... Apparently, nobody cares about their victims in Afghanistan, in Bosnia, in Chechnia, in Kosovo, in Libya, in Kurdistan, in Iraq or elsewhere... So no, I am most definitely NOT Charlie this morning and I am disgusted beyond words with the obscene display of sanctimonius "solidarity" for a group of "caviar-lefties" who made their money spitting in the souls of billions of people and then dared them to do something about it."

-- The Saker

Where were all these humanist "champions of free speech" and their feckless leaders during the latest slaughter in Palestine committed by the Jewish Zionists, who murdered more than 2000 non-Jews and left thousands more maimed, orphaned and homeless? Those atrocities are also the product of religious extremism, and equally reprehensible. Yet the silence is deafening.

Christians and Muslims were both frequent targets for the crude disrepect dished out by the pornographers at Charlie Hebdo. Here's another sample of the offensive crap that the "irresponsible journal" routinely published, this time showing the "holy trinity" sodomizing each other. Very funny. Fortunately for them, the Catholics stopped burning people at the stake for blasphemy a couple of centuries ago. Apparently, some Muslims decided it was better to go down fighting rather than lay down and take it any longer -- if we believe the story.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." -- Galatians 6:7

"Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men... And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him... But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." -- Matthew 12:31-37

On the other hand, should we really believe the story? Are there other players with other motives?

According to the London Guardian, police claimed the "professional" gunmen "clearly knew their target in advance” and "went straight to the conference room", yet witnesses said they didn't know the code for the front door and couldn't even find the right office. After forcing their way into the building, the gunmen ran around inside for at least 10 minutes with rifles in hand before the shooting started. A woman let them into the building, but they didn't silence her? Nobody called upstairs to warn the Charlie Hebdo staff? Nobody pulled the fire alarm or did anything to stop them?

It was also reported that a French policeman was "shot in the head" at point-blank range by the gunmen as they made their retreat. Oddly enough, video footage of the incident does not show any of the gruesome effects one might expect from an AK-47 (head exploding, violent reaction, blood everywhere), just a puff of dust from the pavement near the guy's head. Very strange, almost theatrical. Why was the street deserted? How was a camera perfectly placed to record the action?

A couple of days later, after the police found a conveniently "misplaced" ID card in the abandoned getaway car, the two named "suspects" were surrounded and blown away in a hail of gunfire, ensuring that there would be no embarrassing trial or media coverage that might contradict the official version of events. Where is the evidence that the masked "professionals" who carried out the attack were the same as these amateurs who were so quickly trapped and killed by police? As with similar cases (Boston bombing, London bombing, etc), the true story may never be revealed.

UPDATE: See this in-depth discussion on the provocative role of Charlie Hebdo:

"Charlie Hebdo served as a mouthpiece for the ideology of the world system in a convergence of Grand Orient politicized Freemasonry, economic liberalism, Jacobinism, Zionism, and Marxism... While pontificating about “free speech”, criticism of Israel was not tolerated, and any manifestation of the Nationalist Right was regarded as requiring state repression. Charlie Hebdo advocates the “liberalism” of the Jacobins, the argument of the guillotine, figuratively, if not literally."

-- Kerry Bolton article