Satirists

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1-7-15
  

  Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris

  by Juan Cole

  "The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public."