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So two morons think that murdering the staff of a magazine they disagree with is the way to stop something that offends them.
45,000 - Charlie Hebdo average weekly circulation in 2013
7,000,000 - Charlie Hebdo circulation in a recent week after the killings
How's that strategy of stopping the free press working?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And I don't think the shooters expected their acts to reduce the publication of these images.
Most fools would have known better than to think that.
Something else was going on here.
Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)I was just focusing on the explosive growth in circulation.
Good point, though. What else could explain their motive?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Of course it has everything to do with images of the Prophet Mohammed.
If the magazine didn't have any such images it would not have been attacked.
To suggest otherwise is preposterous.
Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)If an image of the Prophet Mohammed is a problem, their violent methods have turned a 45,000 problem into a 7,000,000 problem.
Nice going, guys.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Hopefully we can someday live in a world where people don't get killed for their cartoons.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Because as we all know, religion can never be implicated in bad things. Only good.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)May they continue to publish and flourish.