'We are Charlie': Across France, Nearly 4 Million March to Honor Victims of [Islamic] Terrorist Attacks

FOX NEWS: At least 3.7 million people including more than 40 world leaders are marching throughout France on Sunday in a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims of a three-day terror spree that took place around the French capital.

The French Interior Ministry said the rally for unity against terrorism is the largest demonstration in France's history, more than the numbers who took to Paris streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in World War II.

The ministry said between 1.2 million and 1.6 million marched the Paris streets. But it said a precise account is impossible given the enormity of the turnout in the capital.

The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. Also, a new shooting was linked to that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday along with the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.

"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," said French President Francois Hollande. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better." (+ FoxNews video) » | FoxNews.com | Sunday, January 11, 2015

Trauermarsch in Paris: Christen, Juden, Muslime - vereint gegen den Terror

German Anti-Islamic Rallies May Grow on Terror Fears after Paris Attacks

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The anti-Islamic movement, Pegida, plans to rally on Monday which comes after Saturday's anti-Pegida protest in Dresden

Germany's new anti-Islamic Pegida movement plans to rally again on Monday, when analysts expect its ranks to swell by thousands following the attacks in Paris.

Leaders of the so-called "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident" have asked marchers to wear black armbands and observe a minute's silence for "the victims of terrorism in Paris".

About 35,000 people, organisers said, took to the streets on Saturday in Dresden against the anti-Islam group's marches. The crowd estimate is a record and nearly double the 18,000 who attended a previous counter-protest.

Many observers of the rise of the far-right populist movement in the eastern city of Dresden now expect it to seek to make political capital from the massacre at the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and its bloody aftermath. » | AFP | Saturday, January 10, 2015

Going Underground: Press Freedom After Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Paris Shootings: Jews 'Don't Feel Safe in France'

BBC AMERICA: The Jewish community in Paris is still in shock after an attack on a kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes on Friday in which four Jews were killed.

Many came to the scene of the attack on Saturday to lay flowers and pay tribute to the victims.

The attack has left some French Jews considering moving to Israel and other countries because they do not feel safe in France. (+BBC video) » | Video Journalist: Bruno Boelpaep | Saturday, January 10, 2015

Paris Shooting: Hero Police Officer Who Begged For His Life Was Married Muslim

DAILY EXPRESS: A MUSLIM police officer begged for his life as masked gunmen shot him to death on the streets of Paris as part of the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre.

Chilling footage of the attack on the satirical magazine offices shows Ahmed Merabet on the ground and begging for mercy as he is killed by a gunshot to the head.

After being shot the first time, the gunmen wearing balaclavas and wielding Kalashnikov rifles are seeing running past the police officer - who had his hands up in surrender - before they shoot him again point-blank as he lies on the pavement outside the offices in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Mr Merabet, 42, is reportedly said to have asked his killers "Do you want to kill me?" before they allegedly replied: "Okay chief." He is survived by his wife. » | Rebecca Perring | Friday, January 09, 2015

«Sie haben den Propheten Gottes beleidigt»

TAGES ANZEIGER: Nach dem Anschlag auf das Satiremagazin «Charlie Hebdo» ist die Solidarität mit Frankreich und der Zorn auf die Attentäter gross in der muslimischen Welt.

Zahlreiche Zeitungen kritisierten am Samstag die von Islamisten verursachte Gewalt. Beispielsweise schrieb die überregionale arabische Tageszeitung «Al-Sharq al-Awsat» von einem «Tag des Horrors», die ägyptische «Al-Masri al-Joum» titelte: «Frankreich nimmt Rache für die Opfer». Die ägyptische Zeitung «Al-Masri al-Joum» zeigte einen mit einem Stift bewaffneter Zeichner, der ein gehörntes Ungeheuer jagt, auf dem «Intoleranz» geschrieben steht.

Mit einem Doppelschlag hatte die französische Polizei am Freitag zwei Geiselnahmen beendet und dabei drei Islamisten getötet, darunter auch die beiden Brüder, die den Anschlag auf das Satiremagazin verübt haben sollen. Handyaufnahmen belegten, dass die Attentäter nach ihrem Massaker in der Redaktion des Satiremagazins «Charlie Hebdo» «Allahu Akbar» – «Gott ist gross» – gerufen hatten. Insgesamt gab es innerhalb von drei Tagen 20 Tote. » | Samstag, 10. Januar 2015

US Use of Shannon Airport Makes Ireland a Target - Anjem Choudary

THE IRISH TIMES: Preacher says Charlie Hebdo attack victims were to blame for their own deaths

Ireland is a legitimate target for attack because of its decision to allow American planes refuel at Shannon Airport on their way to bombing Muslim countries, a radical Muslim preacher based in the UK has warned today.

Anjem Choudary, who has described those behind the 9/11 attacks in the US as ‘magnificent martyrs’, warned that Muslims fighting American foreign policy do not see Ireland as a neutral country because of its willingness to allow American planes refuel at Shannon.

“You allow the Americans, who are the biggest butchers in the world, to stop at Shannon Airport to refuel and go on to kill people in Muslim countries... if you believe the Americans are terrorists, the Irish government is colluding with them and aiding and abetting terrorism,” he said. » | Barry Roche | Friday, January 09, 2015

As Search Goes On, French Premier Declares War on Radical Islam

THE NEW YORK TIMES: PARIS — Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at war with radical Islam, as new details emerged of the harrowing sieges that led to the deaths of three gunmen and four hostages the day before, and as the authorities mounted a frantic hunt for a suspected accomplice who remained on the loose.

“It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity,” Mr. Valls said during a speech in Evry, south of Paris. » | Dan Bilefsky and Maïa de la Baume | Saturday, January 10, 2015

Robert Spencer on Hannity on Sharia No-Go Zones in France and the Charlie Hebdo Jihadists

"Charlie Hebdo": Marine Le Pen regrette d'être la seule à parler de "fondamentalisme islamiste"

LE POINT: À l'issue d'une rencontre à l'Élysée avec François Hollande, la présidente du FN affirme avoir demandé diverses mesures en réponse à cet attentat.

La présidente du FN Marine Le Pen a regretté vendredi être la seule responsable politique, selon elle, à parler de guerre contre le "fondamentalisme islamiste" après l'attentat contre Charlie Hebdo. À l'issue d'une rencontre à l'Élysée avec François Hollande, elle a également affirmé à la presse avoir demandé au chef de l'État diverses mesures en réponse à cette attaque sanglante de mercredi, dont la suspension de l'appartenance de la France à l'espace Schengen. D'après elle, "il faut se mettre en situation de répondre à la guerre déclarée par le fondamentalisme islamiste". "J'ai regretté d'ailleurs que ce mot n'ait pas été prononcé ni par lui ni par d'autres responsables politiques. La première des choses quand on veut mener la guerre, c'est d'être capable de savoir contre qui on se bat. On se bat contre une idéologie, celle du fondamentalisme islamiste. Ne pas le dire, c'est déjà une preuve de faiblesse", a accusé la fille de Jean-Marie Le Pen. » | Source AFP | vendredi 09 janvier 2015

'Hacktivist' Group Anonymous Says It Will Avenge Charlie Hebdo Attacks by Shutting Down Jihadist Websites

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Hacker group Anonymous have released a video condemning the Paris attacks, saying "freedom of expression has suffered an inhuman assault"

Hacker group Anonymous have released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were murdered.

The video description says that it is "a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists", and was uploaded to the group's Belgian account.

In the clip, a figure wearing the group's symbolic Guy Fawkes mask is seated in front of a desk with the hashtag #OpCharlieHebdo - which stands for Operation Charlie Hebdo - featured on screen.

The figure, whose voice is obscured says: "We are declaring war against you, the terrorists." » | Keely Lockhart, Video source YouTube / anonymous belgique | Friday, January 09, 2015

Nick Clegg Silences Radio Caller Who Tries to Justify Charlie Hebdo Shootings

Read the Pnik News article here | Joseph Patrick McCormick | Thursday, January 08, 2015

Attacke in Paris - Reaktionen

VORARLBERG ONLINE: Außenminister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) und auch die deutsche Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel zeigten sich in ersten Reaktionen auf die Pariser Attacke erschüttert.

"Demokratische Gesellschaften wie unsere dürfen sich dadurch nicht einschüchtern lassen. Wir müssen weiterhin unsere Grundwerte wie die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit mit Nachdruck verteidigen.", sagte Kurz laut einer Aussendung am Mittwoch.

Strache verurteilt Terrorakt

Über die Attacke auf das Satiremagazin "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris herrscht in Österreich Entsetzen. Nach Außenminister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) brachte auch FPÖ-Chef Heinz-Christian Strache sein Mitgefühl zum Ausdruck und verurteilte den Terrorakt. Er wünsche "den französischen Behörden viel Erfolg für eine rasche Ergreifung der feigen Mörder und ihrer Hintermänner." » | APA | Mittwoch, 07. Januar 2015

Europe’s Islam Debate Erupts as Paris Killers at Large

BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK: The bodies haven’t been buried and the killers are on the loose, but that didn’t prevent anti-Islam politicians across Europe from seizing on yesterday’s massacre in Paris.

The rhetoric varied in intensity across the European Union’s 28 countries, each with its own religious and social phobias, many gripped by an economic recession that makes convenient scapegoats out of immigrants -- especially those with veils, turbans and non-white skin.

“I wish my daughter will be free tomorrow to go around without a veil and without any fears,” Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League, said on Twitter. Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, spoke on LBC radio of a “Fifth Column” gnawing away at Britain and “a really rather gross policy of multi-culturalism.” Geert Wilders, head of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, said it is time to “de-Islamize our country.” » | James G. Neuger | Thursday, January 08, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Attack: Magazine to Publish Next Week

BBC AMERICA: French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo will go to print next week, in defiance of Wednesday's apparent militant Islamist attack.

Ten journalists and two police were killed when masked attackers opened fire at its Paris headquarters.

Columnist Patrick Pelloux said the decision to continue to publish will show that "stupidity will not win".

It will have a print run of one million copies, compared with its usual 60,000 a week.

It will be half its usual length at eight pages long. » | Thursday, January 08, 2015

German PEGIDA Group Says Paris Shooting Shows Islamist Threat

NEWSWEEK: Germany's new anti-immigration movement seized on Wednesday's deadly attack by militants on a Paris magazine, saying it highlighted the threat of Islamist violence it has been warning against.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have condemned the grassroots movement PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, which drew a record crowd of 18,000 to its latest rally on Monday in Dresden.

Gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a French satirical magazine known for lampooning radical Islam on Wednesday. At least 12 people were killed in the attack, the worst by militants on French soil in decades. One gunman was seen on video shouting "Allah!" as shots rang out.

"The Islamists, against whom PEGIDA has been warning over the last 12 weeks, showed in France today that they are not capable of (practicing) democracy but instead see violence and death as the solution," PEGIDA wrote on its Facebook page.

"Our political leaders want us to believe the opposite is true," the group added.

"Does a tragedy like this first have to happen in Germany?" » | Reuters | Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Anti-Islam Parties Are Now On The March Across Europe

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Religion should be able to cope with being satirised

The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had no qualms about lampooning Islam. Why should it? In a free and liberally-inclined country like France it routinely took the mickey out of politicians and creeds whatever their source. But the editors knew they were running a risk by sending up Islam because militants will simply not accept that their religion be traduced in any way – and are prepared to kill or threaten to make their point.

Salman Rushdie discovered this more than 20 years ago after the publication of Satanic Verses brought a fatwa upon his head from Iran and forced him into hiding for years. Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard found out in 2005 when he was asked by his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to draw the prophet Muhammad "as you see him". The resulting cartoon was deemed blasphemous by hard-line Muslims around the world and provoked death threats. Ten Years ago, Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, was stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam for insulting the Prophet.

Staff at Charlie Hebdo had already tasted this murderous backlash three years ago when their offices were firebombed when the magazine reprinted the Danish cartoons and named Mohammed editor-in-chief for a week’s edition. It also published a “halal” comic book on the life of the Prophet. To most Western sensibilities all of these publications were the warp and weft of what it means to live in a free country. Even if Christians or Jews object to their religions being satirised, they put up with it. But militant Islamists were not prepared to do so. Two gunmen in Paris have now exacted bloody vengeance in an act of violence that will send shock waves around Europe.

Anti-Islamist attitudes are beginning to move away from the far-Right extreme and more into the mainstream of popular discontent. In Germany since last October weekly marches have been held in a number of towns and cities staged by an organisation called Pegida which campaigns against what it sees as the "Islamisation" of Europe. Nearly 20,000 turned out to one rally in Dresden. The marches have been denounced by political parties and religious leaders across Germany but its supporters do not appear to be drawn from the usual neo-Nazi quarters. » | Philip Johnston | Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Attack: 'Who Dares to Publish Anything after This?' – Cartoonist Lars Vilks

Charlie Hebdo Massacre: 'Attack Will Heighten Anti-Islamic Tensions Across Europe'

At least 12 people have been killed after two gunmen opened fire in the headquarters of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in central Paris