Freedom of Expression and Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo: The carnage of January 7 in Paris will remain in our memory as a criminal act against the freedom of expression. Over the years, the scathing humor of Charb, Cabu and the other members of Charlie Hebdo made us sit up and take notice even when we disagreed with them. They, wherever they are, must be laughing mirthlessly now that the right and the far right, whose nostalgia for colonialism was regularly denounced by the magazine, now beatify them as victims of the enemies of "civilization.", according to Rabble. Modern France is the result of several centuries of colonial depredations that began with the "Triangle of Death" imposed on Africa and the Americas in the seventeenth century. The French regimes, including those following the revolution of 1789, enslaved millions of Africans and perpetrated now forgotten genocides in the Americas and Pour lire en fran ais. These victims would be turning over in their graves if they were to read Christian Rioux column of January 9 in Le Devoir . He calls for, in Moli re name nonetheless, for the defense of the French "civilization," if not Western "civilization" as a whole, supposedly threatened by radical Islam. It extremely dishonest to put France forward as this "bastion of freedoms". (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.