12 dead in an attack on a satirical magazine;
Two masked gunmen stormed the offices of the controversial publication, which has previously been attacked over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.
They were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and are also believed to have had a rocket-propelled grenade.[…]
It is reported both the publication’s editor and lead cartoonist were among those killed, as well as two police officers.
Some 20 people have also been injured, at least four seriously.
A manhunt is under way for the gunmen, who escaped after a shootout in the street with police.
Shocking footage has emerged of a wounded police officer being shot in the head as he lies on the ground, holding his hands up.
The killers then calmly return to their getaway car, which was later found abandoned.
Probably mental illness.

Would anyone else like to comment on the fact that our government’s approach to Islamic extremism is tepid? What will it take before a more pragmatic approach is taken?
…..and how is that multiculturalism working out for you again?
I blame the inevitable anti-Muslim backlash.
nick, we need a serious backlash.
The “Backlash Worriers” are going the peel the hide right off their hands with angst over this one.
NewsWatchCanada has a photo of one of these terrorists executing a wounded policeman.
http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
No doubt Shiny Pony will want to send parkas over there and sit down with them to discuss root causes.
Blame Liberalism. Period!
Feral animals do what feral animals always have done.
Nothing will change until society refocuses the cross hairs on the real guilty parties.
“What will it take before a more pragmatic approach is taken?”
A Pierre Laporte or two.
No doubt Shiny Pony will add workplace violence and backlash denialism to resource depletion as the worlds greatest threats.
Headline on MSN Canada: “Charlie Hebdo has a history of drawing muslim ire”, by Mclean’s no less.
When are they going to wake up?
Hands up , don’t shoot.!
….something about “root cause”…..
The drama queen will come up with some innovative slogan.
It will only take a few days while the cabal that runs him decides.
Individuals capable of achieving the grouping I saw on the windscreen of that police car don’t generally suffer from mental illness.
and a bomb exploded infront of synagogue a s well. Throw in that ONLY 960 cars were burned on new year eve……………..
We are so guilty for treating Japanese-Canadians so poorly in WWII that we now can’t see any reality when it’s staring us right in the eye.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have failure to communicate. Communicate the truth, that is. And if nobody is willing to tell the truth, we’re done.
Just what will it take before we cross the line of not being to do anything about it?
Or have we crossed that line already?
And with a Kalashnikov… that’s pretty good gun control. Trained and well practiced.
It looks like there is just over a billion muslims who apparently want to annihilate the other 6 billion earthlings so they can continue the war between the Sunni and the Shia for all time without interference from pesky western countries or the evil empires of Russia and China (Europe is already theirs) …. they just want two teams … both exactly the same but with different insignia on their jersey/turban.
The trick they will need learn when they finally succeed is to not kill themselves faster than they are being born … or they will run out of victims.
THEN WHAT WOULD THEY DO?
Called it before I even heard the details. “Journalists dead at a French satirical newspaper at the hands of masked gunmen” was all I got on the morning news. I immediately said to my wife, “Betcha the paper published something about Mohammad that pissed off the Muslim crazies so they blew the place up.”
France is very deep down the Muslim-crazy hole. We’ve only seen the opening acts of it here in Canada so far. We’ll get the full dose within another generation if we don’t smarten the hell up.
Self radicalized?
Who else remembers how outraged the usual suspects of the liberal left were following this interview, in which PM Harper had the nerve to speak the GD truth…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-says-islamicism-biggest-threat-to-canada-1.1048280
Round up and arrest the first few dozen Mo’s you see, one’s just as guilty as another and they’re all the same.
We’ll more than likely be seeing a Madrid style terrorist attack just before the next election. The Liberal creeps and the treasonous media collaborators are laying in wait for it to happen. They have their narrative and line of attack at the ready.
Cultural enrichment in a “Gun Free” zone country, what more can a good Liberal ask for?
How about we all do an EZRA!…let’s get those pix that were printed by these people in France and blast them all over the web…and dare Maclean’s and CBC to do the same!
Sun news…are you in??
Paul >
No death penalty country as well, it’d be like sending them to Club Med with foot baths and a University Education.
3 years to life, with a maximum sentence of 20 years but out in 2 years with good behavior and the ability to knit their own prayer mats.
Justin Turdeau will already have booked flights to Paris to apologize to the Muslim community on behalf of all Canadians.
http://www.charliehebdo.fr/index.html
That’s the dilemma right now. There’s not a lot we can do that won’t do more damage to our already atrophied civil rights in this country than simply accepting the occasional dead policeman, ceremonial guard or citizen as the cost of freedom. Stripping Canadian citizens of their citizenship and deporting them for being Muslim sets a dangerous precedent that could be used against any number of other groups. Halting all immigration from majority Muslim countries and deporting any such residents here not yet Canadian citizens would send a strong message, but I’d want to see some exceptions made for groups like the Eqyptian Copts and the Libyan Christan communities.
Assuming there are any left.
The solution seems obvious: a mushroom cloud over Tehran, and an announcement that the next Islamic terrorist atrocity will result in a similar cloud over Mecca and Medina ought to be a bit of a deterrent. Nonetheless, this may not work when you’re dealing with a death cult. Still, seems much more efficacious than sending John Kerry over to the ME to jawbone them to death.
That is exactly the kind of Lynch mob mentality that gives conservatives a bad name. You should use a bathroom or a more private alley way when you defecate.
“Probably mental illness.”
Great minds think alike.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2015/01/more-mentally-ill-individuals-attack-in.html
My take, gun control working as intended. Because liberals are morons.
My prediction, gun control is about to get a h3ll of a lot less popular in Europe. As are liberals.
The Religion Of Peace
well said, and that type of BS tends to let others off the hook. Profiling is good practice when doing assessments, but in the end the character of the individual should be the reason of the final “call”. There are a lot of “Jamaican” thugs that need to be booted, without trial, they can file grievance through the Canadian embassy down there.
These jihadi overlook that this is the country that when Greenpeace planned to interfere with their nuclear tests……sank the Rainbow warrior.
Aux armes citoyen….
Echoing NME, well said indeed.
Jim asks the musical question: “What will it take before a more pragmatic approach is taken?”
It will take one galvanizing incident after a long series of atrocities. This is probably not it for us, although it might be in France. They’ve been putting up with a lot of schlitz for a long time.
See, the problem is you have to convince several million liberal voters that gun control is folly, that terrorists actually exist, and that appeasement is not a morally correct approach to terrorists. Because the reason we’re having these problems at all is there’s a whole political industry making money off pandering to liberal voters.
That’s not going to happen overnight, right? Because as we all know, liberals are A) not very bright and B) not listening at all.
You let the Mooselimbs start getting really brave in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Let them feel their oats. Maybe they start really getting up people’s noses in those cities with their strict Sharia BS. A few spectacular rapes, a few honor killings, a few newspapers and TV stations attacked, a few instances of Justin Trudeau abasing himself to ge tthem to stop and they keep right on going. This will build up. Eventually, one of them will kill a little kid or a cute dog or a cute girl, and there will be a picture. Or video. Or something.
And -then- it will turn on a dime.
Because that’s what it takes to get crooked politicians to change their path. They’ve gotta smell more profit in a new line of BS.
That’s why freedom works better than government. In a free country you just punch the pushy Mooselimb creep in the face and get on with your day. We don’t have that here.
Shortly IRAN will have their big firecracker.
THAT, will be a beer and popcorn moment folks.
Daniel Ream >
And your solution is business as usual with continued open borders and ever more Islamic immigration perhaps?
Because that is what will continue to happen until the Liberal and pseudo conservative apologists for the so called “moderates” wake up and smell some reality.
When Western country’s FORCE the so called “Moderates” to accept our values in our countries they will change. They may even fight the so called “radicals” if they truly wanted to live in our nations badly enough.
How? We could start with immigration reforms, such as NO welfare eligibility until taxes are paid for a minimum of 5 years. No student or work visas for any Islamic Nationals whose countries do not adhere to western value systems. Mandatory English, professional job skills, etcetera, etcetera…………
As it stands today, western Liberal nations are nothing than sanctuary countries for Islamic terrorists, with free room and board.
As far as the Muslim “Canadian Citizens” you mentioned, we do have laws and penalties against treason. It’s about time we used them.
It’s all about the ‘base’…
So a publisher known for printing articles that irritate Muslims is attacked, but it’s NOT terrorism?
White House Talking Points are us.
Oh and ‘what difference does it make?’
Two unarmed French policemen arriving on scene via bicycle, proved unable to prevent the attack. Unilateral disarmament is suicide. Gun control is suicide.
And by the way. I’d like to echo what The Grey Lady said above. We do not do stuff like “Round up and arrest the first few dozen Mo’s you see”. That’s what liberals do. That’s what Mooselimb terrorists do.
What we do is expect all the people we meet to behave properly, and if they don’t we handle the issue right there, right then. Most importantly, the authorities support the citizens when they settle things between themselves. They don’t pick one group over another and punish anyone who steps out of line with their policy.
That’s a free country. That’s the kind of country I used to live in and will live in again.
Mooselimbs are not the enemy. Liberals are the enemy. Defeat them, and hillbilly MoBro head choppers will last a very short time indeed. Like, a week maybe if they’ve really planned ahead.
We are Canadians. We are the most dangerous people on Earth. Killers and tyrants the world over tremble at the word of our coming, while the innocent rejoice. Lets all remember that, shall we?
I dunno…was it from 10 yards, or a hundred?
An act of war.
Is Paris covered in CCTV cameras the way London is? Anybody know?
the progressive’s approach to muslim violence is identical to that of the British people and virtually all politicians other than Churchill during the 1920’s and 30’s:
“lets not incite Herr Hitler by arming ourselves in violation of our treaties with Germany, even though he is arming in violation of the treaties.”
How did that work out for the UK and Europe. And just like the Religion of peace, Hitler would say one thing while planning and acting on another.
In that way he basically went at it systematically, one country at a time.
The similarities are amazing. The delay in action meant that the west was almost lost at a cost of millions of lives.
Muslim leaders say one thing in western languages and the opposite in their native languages. One thing in public and the opposite in the mosque.
I’m sure this is not surprising to any have ways observant muslim.
Oh, and let’s brace for the backlash (sarc/.)
Well…look who put his man-pants on today:
Obama refers to killings as ‘terrorism’…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-calls-magazine-murders-terrorist-act_823286.html
With respect to the Japanese Internment–we will never know how effective that internment was. My grandmother regularly told me the story of her brother, who was a groundskeeper at the American Embassy in the Philippines prior to WW2 had a work-mate who was also a groundskeeper at the embassy. That Japanese “gardener” turned out to be a colonel in the Japanese Imperial Army once the Japanese took over Manila. Every employee of the US Embassy was identified as well as their home addresses and their families–One can imagine what kind of secrets were divulged by the principal diplomats when they were captured as the Japanese were not signatories to the Geneva Conventions. On a more “positive” note, that same colonel saved my great-uncle just as he was about to be executed by Japanese soldiers for the simple reason of being a male of military age (something the Japanese regularly did to the civilian population during their occupation). So Canadians will never know how many sabotaged factories, poisoned water supplies, blown up railroad tracks, etc were thwarted by the simple act of interning all the Japanese in Canada.
The Religion of 1. Conquer, 2. Behead Everyone Who Doesn’t Submit, 3. There, Peace.
BLOOD FOR OIL.
See the books of the brilliantly prescient Bat Ye’or who I believe coined the word Eurabia.
I read 5 of them.
France is nearly 10% muslim.
It wil be interesting to see if she can put up a leader brave enough to risk the votes of that daunting voting block. After reading Efraim Karsh’s seminal tome on Islamic Imperialism and seeing how necessary local elite collusion was to the advancement of Islamic expansionism, I’m doubtful.
But surely the day can’t be far off when native Frenchmen take it to the enemy.
Vigilantism may be unavoidable unless the French elite has a Road to Damascus moment.
Collective punishment is ugly and patently unfair but fairness maybe become a unaffordable luxury.
1789. 1968.
bluetech said: “So a publisher known for printing articles that irritate Muslims is attacked, but it’s NOT terrorism?”
Yep. For reals.
Newspaper attacked by guys yelling “Paliwannaackbar!” while they shoot wounded cops in the head point blank. On video. White House spokesman says they gotta “investigate” before they “rush to judgement”. Rather than support the President of France who said “terrorists” before the shooting stopped. Because supporting the president of a close ally during war time might be considered gauche, y’know. Due diligence and all, y’unnerstand.
Which is why I keep saying, Liberals Are The Enemy. Mooselimbs are just a bunch of violent morons who only misbehave because they think they can get away with it.
I just watched some of those videos. Those f-ers had Krinkovs and Eastern Block body armor. Still, if all the cowering goofs with cameras had pistols as well, the death toll would be three terrorists.
For those liberals lurking here at SDA, important clue update. You can -drive- from France to the Middle East, it isn’t that far. You can also drive to Russia, and Bulgaria, and Romania, and the Balkans etc., all places where a case of decent beer can score you an AK. For explosives and RPGs I expect you have to pay American dollars.