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I feel your pain, bitter, lonely, nerdy guys. I really do. It sounds corny to say it like that, but I don’t know how to say it and be believed. I know that because, having experienced this emotion from the inside for most of my life, I sure as hell resisted believing it when I…
There’s a certain ritual that each and every one of the world’s billion-plus Muslims, especially those living in Western countries, is expected to go through immediately following any incident of violence involving a Muslimperpetrator. It’s a ritual that is we went through with the Sydney hostage crisis in December, in which a deranged self-styled sheikh…
After 9/11, Le Monde declared: ‘Nous sommes tous Américains.’ The love affair was short-lived: as soon as the French declined to join the war against Iraq, American pundits called them ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’ and French fries were renamed ‘freedom fries’. When Obama took office, relations warmed, but the tables were turned: the new administration in…
The internal staff email chain began with a Jan. 8 email from Al Jazeera English’s executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr, asking his reporters to interrogate whether the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper was “really an attack on free speech” and whether the slogan “Je Suis Charlie/I Am Charlie” is “alienating.” Describing the incident as a…
About 700,000 people take part in marches across France following three days of deadly attacks in the Paris area that took the lives of 17 people. BBC News – France attacks: Huge marches for victims.
The hostage situation at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday, in which four people and the gunman died, has been called an “anti-Semitic attack” by French President François Hollande. It’s just the latest crime to fit that description in a country that has seen a rash of anti-Jewish incidents in recent years. Soon after Friday’s…
Wikileaks accused the Jewish lobby of legitimizing attacks on the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, which was assaulted Wednesday by Islamist terrorists in one of the worst such attacks on French soil. The organization, which serves as an online clearinghouse for leaked documents, tweeted on Thursday about “How the Jewish pro-censorship lobby legitimized attacks on Charlie…
The acclaimed graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco on the limits of satire – and what it means if Muslims don’t find it funny Joe Sacco: On Satire – a response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks | World news | The Guardian.
Police mobilize during a hostage situation at a kosher supermarket on January 9, 2015 in Paris, France. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Two days after heavily-armed gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, two gunmen took hostages at a kosher supermarket in a Paris, killing at least four people. Police killed…
“//www.youtube.com/embed/kSSze9A6X9E” width=”640″> Boy, times sure were tough for women in the 1940s! It’s so great that now in modern times we live in a completely equal society where women are treated the same way as men are and—oh. Oh. (via Leigh Lahav) Are you following The Mary Sue on “https://twitter.com/#!/TheMarySue/” target= “_blank”>Twitter, “http://www.facebook.com/themarysue” target= “_blank”>Facebook, target=”_blank”>Tumblr,…