Remember those words? Barack Obama uttered them in September of 2012 while he was apologizing for the video that his administration claimed was the cause of the Benghazi attacks.
Someone took those words to heart.
At least twelve people have been killed in an attack on the building in which reside the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, which frequently publishes satire of Islam.
CBS News’ Elaine Cobbe reports that, according to witnesses, two armed and masked men walked into the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and opened fire in the entrance hallway, killing people as they saw them.
They were after those behind the magazine:
Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre confirmed 12 people were killed. Among the dead were two men who went by the pen names: Charb — the editor and a cartoonist as well — and the cartoonist Cabu, Thibault-Lecuivre confirmed.
Two police officers were also among the dead, including one assigned as Charb’s bodyguard after prior death threats against him, a police official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
Charlie Hebdo resisted past threats:
Charlie Hebdo’s office was firebombed in 2011 after publishing a cartoon depicting an image of the Prophet Muhammed. Any depiction of the prophet is forbidden by Islam.
Ignoring the attack and the threat of further violence, Charlie Hebdo published more Muhammad pictures the following year.
AFP reports that the gunmen shouted: “We have avenged the prophet.”
“The motive here is absolutely clear; trying to shut down a media organization that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad,” CBS News security consultant and former CIA deputy chief Mike Morell told “CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose. “What we have to figure out here is the perpetrators and whether they were self-radicalized or whether they were individuals who fought in Syria and Iraq and came back, or whether they were actually directed by ISIS or al Qaeda.”
Some think we’re next:
Morrell added a warning that law enforcement and intelligence agencies would need to “worry about copycat attacks, not only in France but in the rest of the world, and I would even say in the broader world to include the United States.”
Here are the gunmen defending the prophet by executing a policeman as he begged for his life:
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The White House was reluctant to call this terrorism at first.
The gunmen were armed with AK-47’s, which is odd since military style weapons are outlawed in France.
A car bomb has reportedly gone off outside a synagogue near Paris. I bet those are illegal in France as well.
One might argue that these gunmen took some inspiration from the words of Barack Obama. This is your future under Islam.
Charlie Hebdo’s office was firebombed in 2011 after publishing a cartoon depicting an image of the Prophet Muhammed. Any depiction of the prophet is forbidden by Islam.
I’m tired of being told to understand that it’s only “a few.” I’m tired of thinking we all have to live in fear of offending someone of a certain religion but not others. I’m tired of having to take my shoes off at airports. I’m tired of being subject to the same scrutiny as bad people. I’m tired of the absence of profiling. This is what liberalism gets you.
Aren’t you comfortable knowing that Obama declared that the war on terror is over? And don’t forget when our President says
“The future must not belong to those who would slander the prophet of Islam”
Or else.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.