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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Critical Articles on Charlie Hebdo

How 'Je suis Charlie' makes matters worse
By SAREE MAKDISI
The Los Angeles Times - January 16, 2015
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0118-makdisi-je-suis-charlie-makes-things-worse-20150118-story.html

French Muslims feel deeply torn by viral ‘I am Charlie’ slogan
By Anthony Faiola
The Washington Post - January 13, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/they-are-not-charlie/2015/01/13/7c9d6998-9aae-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html

'Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted'
By Vidya Venkat
The Hindu - January 15, 2015 
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article6789470.ece 

In remembering the Charlie Hebdo attack we must not forget the responsibility that goes with free speech
By Tariq Modood
The London School of Economics and Political Science - Jan 12, 2015
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/01/12/in-remembering-the-charlie-hebdo-attack-we-must-not-forget-the-responsibility-that-goes-with-free-speech/

‘France Tries To Mask Its Islamophobia Behind Secular Values’ The Pakistan-born British commentator seldom minces words.
Pranay Sharma Interviews Tariq Ali 
Outlook - Jan 26, 2015
http://www.outlookindia.com/article/France-Tries-To-Mask-Its-Islamophobia-Behind-Secular-Values/293132

A Postcard From Paris
By JASON STANLEY
The New York Times - January 8, 2015
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/a-postcard-from-paris/?_r=0

Why Charlie Hebdo offends me Middle East
By Hicham Tiflati
Mondoweiss - January 16, 2015
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-offends 

France: The Ground Shifts
By Mark Lilla
The New York Review of Books - January 14, 2015
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jan/14/france-after-terror-ground-shifts/

French Muslims feel deeply torn by viral ‘I am Charlie’ slogan
By Anthony Faiola
The Washington Post - January 13, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/they-are-not-charlie/2015/01/13/7c9d6998-9aae-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html

Let's Not Fall for the Terrorists' Trap (Again)
John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
The Huffington Post - January 14, 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-l-esposito/lets-not-fall-for-the-ter_b_6465580.html

The Charlie Hebdo Attack And What It Reveals About Society
By Zygmunt Bauman
Social Europe - 13/01/2015
http://www.socialeurope.eu/2015/01/charlie-hebdo/ 

“Charlie Hebdo”, not racist? If you say so…
by Olivier Cyran translated by Daphne Lawless
Leninology - Thursday 5 December 2013
http://www.leninology.co.uk/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-not-racist-if-you-say-so.html?m=1

As a Muslim, I’m fed up with the hypocrisy of the free speech fundamentalists
By Mehdi Hasan
New Statesman - 13 January, 2015
http://www.newstatesman.com/print/node/220106 

On Charlie Hebdo: A letter to my British friends
By Par Olivier Tonneau
Media Part - 11 janvier 2015
http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/olivier-tonneau/110115/charlie-hebdo-letter-my-british-friends

Mourning the Parisian Journalists Yet Noticing the Hypocrisy
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Huffington Post - 01/09/2015 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-michael-lerner/mourning-the-parisian-jou_b_6442550.html

Charlie Hebdo and Europe's Rising Right
By Anne Norton
The Huffington Post - 01/10/2015 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-norton/charlie-hebdo-and-europes_b_6444368.html

Ahmed Merabet's eulogy is the most important thing you'll read on Charlie Hebdo
By Max Fisher
Vox - January 11, 2015
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/11/7527697/ahmed-malek-merabet-eulogy-charlie-hebdo

Why Charlie Hebdo attack is not about Islam Charlie Hebdo massacre is rooted in generations of violence, hypocrisy and greed.
By Mark LeVine
Al-Jazeera - 10 Jan 2015
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-islam-cartoon-terr-20151106726681265.html

‘I AM NOT CHARLIE’: Leaked Newsroom E-mails Reveal Al Jazeera Fury over Global Support for Charlie Hebdo
By Brendan Bordelon
The National Review - January 9, 2015
http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/396131/i-am-not-charlie-leaked-newsroom-e-mails-reveal-al-jazeera-fury-over-global-support 

The Charlie Hebdo I Know
By Scott Sayare
The Atlantic - Jan 11 2015
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-secularism-religion-islam/384413/

Hey, Media: Instead Of Lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Support The Artists You're Exploiting
Talking Points Memo - Jan. 8 2015
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/media-dont-glorify-charlie-hebdo-racism-support-cartoonists-exploiting

What We Know About the Charlie Hebdo Attack, Day Two
Foreign Policy - Jan. 8 2015
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/08/what-we-know-about-the-charlie-hebdo-attack-day-two/

Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech — It Was About War
Medium- Jan. 7 2015
https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/charlie-hebdo-this-attack-was-nothing-to-do-with-free-speech-it-was-about-war-26aff1c3e998

Europe’s Brutal Truth: Europeans are both too Islamophobic and too timid to face up to the roots of Islamic fundamentalism.
Slate - Jan. 7 2015
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/01/europe_s_confused_debate_about_islam_and_terrorism_europeans_are_both_too.html

Charlie Hebdo: Norway didn’t give in to Islamophobia, nor should France
The Guardian – Jan. 8, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/08/charlie-hebdo-norway-islamophobia-france-anders-breivik 

‘Do you support ISIS?’: CNN’s Don Lemon stuns Muslim human rights attorney
Raw Story – Jan. 8, 2015
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/do-you-support-isis-cnns-don-lemon-stuns-muslim-human-rights-attorney/

The bitter fruits of racism and imperialism
Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century - January 8, 2015
http://rs21.org.uk/2015/01/08/the-bitter-fruits-of-racism-and-imperialism/

Washington Post opinions section publishes controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoon
The Washington Post - Jan. 8, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/08/washington-post-opinions-section-publishes-controversial-charlie-hebdo-cartoon/

Islam in Europe
The Economist -  Jan 7th 2015
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/01/daily-chart-2

In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims 
The Washington Post - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802560.html

3 Frenchmen Among Those U.S. Military Holds in Iraq
The New York Times - February 5, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/international/middleeast/05fighters.html

Let’s not sacralize Charlie Hebdo
By Arthur Goldhammer
Al-Jazeera - January 7, 2015
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/charlie-hebdo-gouaillesatireislamjournalism.html 

No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)
By Cas Mudde
Open Democracy - 7 January 2015
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/cas-mudde/no-we-are-not-all-charlie-and-that%E2%80%99s-problem 

Charlie Hebdo Is Heroic and Racist
By Jordan Weissmann
Slate - Jan. 8 2015
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/01/charlie_hebdo_the_french_satirical_magazine_is_heroic_it_is_also_racist.html 

Moral Clarity
By Adam Shatz
London Review of Books - 9 January 2015
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/01/09/adam-shatz/moral-clarity/ 

I Am Not Charlie Hebdo
By David Brooks
The New York Times - January 9, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/david-brooks-i-am-not-charlie-hebdo.html

This map shows every attack on French Muslims since Charlie Hebdo
By Max Fisher
Vox - January 10, 2015
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/10/7524731/french-muslims-attacks-charlie-hebdo

Why I am not Charlie
A Paper Bird - January 9, 2015
http://paper-bird.net/2015/01/09/why-i-am-not-charlie/

In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
By Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept - January 9, 2015
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/

Joe Sacco: On Satire – a response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks
By Joe Sacco
The Guardian - January 9, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks

Who is Michel Houellebecq, the French novelist on the Charlie Hebdo cover? 
By Martin Pengelly
The Guardian - January 10, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/10/michel-houellebecq-french-novelist-charlie-hebdo-cover

Charlie Hebdo: Paris attack brothers' campaign of terror can be traced back to Algeria in 1954 
Robert Fisk
The Independent - January 9, 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/charlie-hebdo-paris-attack-brothers-campaign-of-terror-can-be-traced-back-to-algeria-in-1954-9969184.html

Do France’s Intellectuals Have a Muslim Problem?
Foreign Policy - January 8, 2015
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/08/do-frances-intellectuals-have-a-muslim-problem/

Marine Le Pen blames radical Islamism for Charlie Hebdo attack – video
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/jan/08/marine-le-pen-radical-islamism-charlie-hebdo-attack-video

Kouachi Brothers' Radical Islam Began Long Before Charlie Hebdo Attack
http://www.ibtimes.com/kouachi-brothers-radical-islam-began-long-charlie-hebdo-attack-1779080

French Premier Declares ‘War’ on Radical Islam as Paris Girds for Rally 
By DAN BILEFSKY and MAÏA de la BAUME
The New York Times - JAN. 10, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/paris-terrorist-attacks.html

Here's How Arab Papers Reacted to the 'Charlie Hebdo’ Massacre
By Jordan Valinsky
World Mic - January 9, 2015
http://mic.com/articles/108076/here-s-how-arab-papers-reacted-to-the-charlie-hebdo-massacre 

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