THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes:

The criminals have been identified and confronted, two arrested, one killed.  Good. [CORRECTION: Two are still at large and one has turned himself in. Read here.]

But there is this, from the NBC Website: “Authorities identified the three [Charlie Hebdo murderers] as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both French and in their early 30s, and 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn’t immediately clear.”

I have italicized the incredibly stupid, incredibly mendacious, utterly wicked elements of the sentence.

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Neil writes:

I was listening on and off all day to CNN.

The reporters constantly referred to “The Prophet Mohammed.”  Funny, I’ve never heard them refer to “Jesus the Savior.”  And “Allah Akbhar” is “God is Great,” not “Allah is Great.”  I guess the attackers were a bunch of Deists.

One reporter even referred to “growing Islamaphobia” in Europe.

But they all said that the attack had a “chilling effect” on free speech.  Sounds like CNN and the media have been chilled already.

Mary writes:

My thoughts yesterday, after reading that all of our world’s leaders came to the same conclusion – the wholly insubstantial and false notion that this massacre was simply an attack on “freedom of speech” – were that if that’s all these great minds could come up with we’re in big trouble. Either they’re all idiots or “freedom of speech” is truly the idol of the modern world (or both). How dangerous. Something profound beyond words (mine anyway) is at stake. Islam knows this. This incident is one of what will be many more. They have watched our families break down and our faith weaken and by this have been emboldened to reignite the centuries-old war against their enemy, once magnificent and unstoppable: the West, created by God on the foundation of the natural order, which we persist in corrupting. Our nonsensical babble about “freedom of speech” only proves to Islam they are correct. We have lost any real sense of how freedom truly manifests itself.

My apologies if it’s too soon to say this: that “freedom of speech” itself was the undoing of the victims, for subversive publications usually exist not to uphold important universal principles but to undermine them. In the name of their idol they poked a rattlesnake and paid the ultimate price. The editor stated that he would rather die standing than live kneeling. I have no doubt he made that statement with passionate fervor for what he believed was something noble and grand but his publication did not reflect that nobility, and the fact is that the trouble started when France got off it’s knees. The French should march under banners reading: Repeupler Foyers Français ! Repeupler les Eglises de France! (more apologies, I used google: Repopulate French homes! Repopulate French Churches!). France can still be saved but will need a sane Catholic leader at the helm who will exhort them to help the Eldest Daughter of the Church earn back her title.

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