CharlieHebdomania Plunges World Into Whirlpool Of Islamic Violence

The sale of seven million copies of the magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring a front page cartoon depicting an image purporting to be that of Muhammad has brought forth its first bloody response from the Islamic world – Niger – where reportedly three people have been killed and six churches attacked and looted…writes David Singer. Read more

The Word – Charlie Hebdo of the Soul…writes Rabbi Laibl Wolf

What’s in a word? A picture is worth a thousand words. Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never harm me. And G-d said: let there be light. In the beginning was the Word. The awesome power of words – so amply demonstrated in the Paris terrorist murders. But it’s not the word, stupid – it’s the soul. Read more

Palestinian leader two-faced on suppressing satirists

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas denounced as “heinous” the attack on French satirists who mocked Islam…writes Stephen M Flatow/JNS.org Read more

Canberra and Paris

A memorial ceremony has been held outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise”, in Australia’s Capital city Canberra  to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris. Read more

Supermarket victims named

The names of the four Jews murdered during the siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris have been named…and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with one of the survivors. Read more

Islamist terrorism in France accompanied by anti-Israel conspiracy theories

In a traumatic week for Paris that saw the murders of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, and a police officer in Montrouge—all coming at the hands of Islamist terrorists—the violence was accompanied by the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theories. Read more

Paris attack shows France’s appeasement of Palestinians and Islamists failed…writes Stephen M. Flatow

Less than three months ago, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that there was a link between Islamist terrorism and frustration over the Palestinian issue. Yet despite vigorous recent attempts by the French to champion the Palestinian cause, Islamist terrorists have just struck in Paris, killing 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Where did Kerry’s theory go wrong? Read more