Je Suis Charlie Resounds on Paris Streets as the French React to Attack by Islamic Terrorists on French Newspaper Known for Political Satire

BALTIMORE, Maryland January 8, 2015 - The name of the newspaper was "Charlie Hebdo." It was a weekly devoted, in large part, to political satire. Located, as it was, in the home of political satire: Paris; it was not exactly unique. Nobody and nothing was spared, as the French government, the Pope, Christianity in general, and all things Islamic found themselves in the editors' crosshairs. As can be expected, tempers were picqued. Satire will do that, especially to those who do not appreciate the concept of free speech. In 2011, Islamic Terrorists reacted to a cartoon depicting the founder of the Muslim faith, Mohammed, in a less than idealistic manner by firebombing the editorial offices of the newspaper. Earlier this week, coincidentally enough, the head of the ever-and-always-evil ISIS movement was lampooned. Today, three well-armed Islamic Terrorists said to be shouting Islamic epitaphs, burst into main editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, forced a woman with a child to get them past the security aparatus on the front door, then proceeded to the second floor where an editorial meeting was in progress. The names of the paper's cartoonists and the editor were recited, and when these people were identified, they were shot with a machine gun or other weapon. Finished inside, the Islamic Terrorists left the building, only to be engaged by responding Parisian Police Officers. At least three police officers were killed in the ensuing gun battle, and then the three terrorists escaped. One of the three subsequently surrendered to police, but the main evil, two brothers by the names of Said and Cherif Kouachi, are still at large, pursued now by thousands of police across the European continent. The third terrorist, who is now is police custody, is 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, the London daily The Independent, said today in an on-line report. French President Manuel Valls announed overnight that police have also arrested several other people suspected of being involved in the planning and carrying out of the massacre. Another dozen people were injured in the attack. At least 12 were killed in the massacre of innocents by these Islamic Terrorists. The brothers Kouachi are French nationals of Algerian descent. Algeria is a former French colony and the two nations are in constant turmoil because of that former relationship.

The French President's office has already labeled the attack an act of Terrorism. John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, also called the attack an act of terrorism, but did not call it Islamic Terrorism, in keeping with President Obama's extreme reluctance to take such an obvious step. Kerry, who spoke first in English and then in French, told the citizens of Paris that the people of these United States stand with them in combating terrorism.

The paper's twitter page will give anyone interested a real taste of what these political satirists are up to. They are neither the most extreme nor the most demure of satirists. At this web site: http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-moving-tributes-to-the-victims-of-the-charlie-hebdo-shooting--lJVs7t8dcx readers will find cartoons in tribute to the ten journalists killed in the attack by evil Islamic Terrorists.