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OPINION 4A T HE D AILY A STORIAN I Am Not Charlie Hebdo By DAVID BROOKS Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 T celebrated as martyrs on behalf of face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager Take a hike! vital to our infrastructure Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar A Moroccan girl holds placards that reads “I am Charlie” as they gath- er outside the building of French press agency, AFP, in Rabat, Mo- rocco, Friday. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad Wednesday kill- ing at least 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack. administration would have T rails are a variety of infrastructure development with unique and shut them Initiative and other groups with an active interest in expanding vealed that there are a lot of peo David Brooks Most of us move toward more compli cated views of reality and more forgiv crude censorship and a strangled con less fun as you become more aware offend the views of Islamist terrorists in ward those who offend their own views Most of us do try to show a modicum of respect for people of different creeds more malleable and supple than laws cessfully maintained standards of ci the proliferation of trails here is in the entire county — and for people in general — there are few simpler or better ways to improve within an even broader regional versity of Kansas suspended a profes sor for writing a harsh tweet against the health than by using our own legs establishment organs are social inequality by bring the stellar trail system north of the for being brave enough to publish car they are effective they help us address our foibles com expose granted complete respect one of the ultimate bonding live in one of the most scenic regions So this might be a teachable mo In a world that is becoming ever slaughter of those writers and editors in and Bill Maher are at the because in their unguid and ridiculers expose the stupidity of the fundamen sometimes say necessary things that no one else is a less hypocritical approach to our own within communities for perhaps pable of seeing that while their religion may be worthy of the deepest rever but they do grant different standing and considerate scholars are heard that whatever you might have put on also are a prominent and appealing form of civic improvement that bequeath these connections to our who are incapable of laughing at them adds to our success in attracting selves and teach the rest of us that we sort of deliberately offensive humor tain standards of civility and respect while at the same time allowing room for those creative and challenging the messenger If you try to pull off this delicate N o sooner had tively have to earn it through their should be an occasion to end speech legally tolerant toward offensive voic retiring we should be wary our selves of caricaturing a re By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Donohoe completed his farewell save money by cutting jobs — powerful postal unions battling emphasis is placed on the true cost for rural customers of delayed T of Islamic intolerance and extremism that is the tian fanatics in the former Yugoslavia engaged in genocide against Mus Nicholas Kristof veteran made points worthy of delivery to readers of many of study if we are going to save one Internet and email mean the better monitor the impact of postal perform a creditable job shipping not to blame because an had published a cartoon showing Muhammad crying and many assumed immediately that the erners to perceive Islam as inherent atheists might vent frustrations on people in the Middle East who are standing up to Muslim fanatics are iban represents one brand of Islam; without good Internet service trust the Internet — the mail is a extremists once again have expressed about Islam that leads inexorably to few government departments Edgecombe noted that the of women? course have nothing to do with the ical Muslims so often seem to murder But is a nationwide postal service leadership said it would do so — people to the murder of but only its slower service hostages at a cafe in Syd Let’s I wrote last year of a grow ing strain of intolerance in the Islamic world after agency needs to review its pension it can reach its goals after it has murdered for defending a university professor falsely accused of insulting received tax revenue for decades hard to protect endangered rural consider the impact of any that fanatical Muslims damage the image of Muhammad far more than Some of the most systematic ter rorism in the Islamic world has been that they are disproportionately the the most lethal terror at car bomb outside a police fering to escort Muslims and ensure learned in journalism is to beware of perceiving the world through simple mation is mindlessly plugged into for the global outpouring of support have shared with me their own deep as an oppressive state controlled by Zionists and determined to crush Is in the Islamic world — and every