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I Am Not Charlie Hebdo
By DAVID BROOKS
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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