Je Suis Charlie

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There are people who are so strong in their beliefs that they would risk dying for them.
There are people who are so weak in their beliefs that they would kill for them.

The tragic cowardly attack on the Charlie Hebdo team in Paris yesterday is a depressing example of the strong impact that art and artists can have on all of us.

It is a no-brainer to state that artists should not have to fear for their lives for expressing their beliefs in their creations.
Nobody at all should have to live in fear of harm and death for expressing something freely.

When artists are under attack for publishing ideas that concern the society we live in, we not only need to denounce the attackers, we also need to stand by our artistic messengers.

Satire is needed and absolutely valid. There are ideas in our world that are so deeply absurd that only humor can make them clear and digestible.
Artists who use their skill, talent and concern to comment on our society are our greatest supporters of freedom of speech and freedom from oppression.

Creators like the ones behind Charlie Hebdo don't just make trivial funny comics for us to casually laugh at. No, we need them. We need them more than we might want to admit. They inject new views and truth where there's only lies and twisted angles and with their skill and talent they have the gift of creating messages that are greater than just words.

They can draw pictures that no untrue word can stand up against.

I have no tolerance and acceptance for people whose ideologies need to be defended by harming and killing other people.
Not everything out there is agreeable, and it doesn't need to be.

We need freedom of expression as much as we need freedom from ideologies.

As a fellow human and fellow European, my heart and condolences go out to the families and friends and colleagues of the people who were killed in Paris on January 7th, 2015.

Charb (Stephane Charbonnier), Cabu (Jean Cabut), Georges Wolinski, Tignous (Bernard Verlhac), Bernard Maris, Honoré (Philippe Honoré), Michel Renaud, Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet, Mustapha Ourrad, Frédéric Boisseau, Elsa Cayat
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