"MOULY: Oh, I'm proud to have known them and proud of cartoonists for showing such courage. I mean, it's not like they didn't know. I mean, they were there. They were at the office and they were publishing irreverent caricatures. They set themselves up as lightning rod for this mindless crime. And I mentioned to my husband, Art Spiegelman, that, you know, this just felt so incomprehensible and he pointed out that, you know, fundamentalist Islamists are also people who kill school children. So I can't quite try to make sense out of it."
You can listen to the whole interview at this link, http://www.npr.org/2015/01/07/375671926/charlie-hedbo-a-provocateur-challenging-status-quo. Then I wake up this morning to a new development where innocent Jewish people in a market in Paris are taken hostage and they are threatening to kill them if any action is taken against the attackers of Charlie Hebdo, http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-shooting-at-supermarket-in-eastern-paris/.
This is horrible, but I am liking the response of America, I am liking the attention of the world. It makes me think of the Soviet Union with its controlled media, and a newspaper called Pravda, which means truth, that was completely run by the government. I was talking to a French friend of mine that told me that in France freedom of speech is one of its most important and valued virtues.
I will close with an article where John Kerry explains “Today’s murders are part of a larger confrontation, not between civilizations, no, but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to a civilized world,” http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/charlie-hebdo-clash-civilizations.
Shabbat Shalom,
Coach Yulia
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