Charlie Hebdo reaped the whirlwind.

I agree with both these comments, but for different reasons. We need to stand up for satirists — even those we dislike, because free speech is costly. It means we will be offended. But it means we can preach Christ, and that is even more offensive.

For those of you who have been living under a rock, three terrorists screaming “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) charged into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and shot 12 members of the staff, including the editor who refused to bow to demands he stop publishing cartoons “offensive to Muslims,” to death

Meanwhile USA Today published an open letter from Muslim activist Anjem Choudary entitled “People Know The Consequences.”

In it he writes: “Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people’s desires.”

He goes on to say the French government should have prevented them from publishing the cartoons and “In an increasingly unstable and insecure world, the potential consequences of insulting the Messenger Muhammad are known to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.” You boil that down and it’s a naked threat. “You do anything we don’t like and we’ll kill you.”

Well Mr. Choudary and your ilk. To you and those who enable you. Who say things like “The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet Muhammad,” I have this to say: We will not be intimidated. We will not bow our heads to 12th century barbarians who think it is acceptable to kill people simply because you don’t like what they had to say. We will not accept the idea that some things are simply off limits.

I hear and see things as a Christian man I find offensive daily. Christians are considered safe targets for any manner of insult, satire and ridicule. News flash. We don’t kill people, we don’t demand censorship (yes yes there are one or two nuts, and we all denounce them) and we certainly don’t blame the victims of violence for their brutalization. Those of us who believe in — not just America, although certainly that — but in Western Civilization will continue to stand against you and those like you. We will continue to write, and report and, yes, draw cartoons, you don’t like. We will continue to bang the drum and call attention to the cancer that is radical Islam.

Because je suis Charlie.

And I agree that Charlie Hebdo were left wing SJWs. Who applied free speech selectively. They are not natural allies of the church: they are anticlerical. But I would not kill them: I would argue with them.

But if you let in people who hate you, and coddle them, and appease them, then they will think they can bring war to you. The terrorists have bought war to the West.

As of my writing this the Google news search of Charlie Hebdo shooting nets “About 21,700,000 results“. Rotherham abuse nets “About 27,800 results“. Rotherham rape “About 9,520 results“. The latter story has had four months for stories to be written, the former a couple days.

Here we can see the West’s priorities: a dozen left-wing journalists get killed by the same people they fought so hard to import and it is an international crisis that everyone must care about. 1400 innocent children get raped by those same imports and nobody gives a shit.

You should have been angry months ago.

Anyway, here’s my opinion on Charlie Hebdo: they got what they deserved the natural consequences of their pro-immigration beliefs (Ed: Ill-phrased and added a clarification) and I’m not going to shed a tear. May God grant them mercy in the next life.

Charlie Hebdo was a vile left-wing rag that regularly engaged in anti-Christian blasphemy. They are not ‘us‘. The Muslims aren’t us, but neither are Charlie Hebdo. If our enemies want to start killing each other, why should we involve ourselves? Let them take each other out.

I do have some sympathy for free speech and I might be sympathetic if Charlie Hebdo was staunch ideological pro-free speech organization but like most left-wingers Charlie are very selective in their desire for free speech

The issue here is not your skin colour: it is your religion and your ideology. Christians have to tolerate disagreement. We know there is no perfect society and no perfect church. We have seen what happens when a society tries to be perfect — from the monasteries to Calvin’s Geneva and through to the intentional communities of the Mennonites and Shakers — they fail. For we are not God: God is perfect, we are not. We have to tolerate a certain amount of argument and freedom of speech to allow for correction.

We know people around us do not believe: we have to consider how to evangelize them: with our actions as much as with our words. But our theology has always separated the Church (Kirk) from the state: theologians, like soldiers, should not rule. Islam does not see this.

We have let in — perhaps in ignorance, perhaps with an Anticlerical and antichristian animus — people who will not assimilate. It is not their race or all religions — Chinese Buddhists, Punjabi Sikhs and Ashkenazi Jews have all integrated into British Society, often to the highest levels.

The issue is Islam. The religion, particularly the Wahabite form, is from the pit. And we need to have the courage to say this: for the Wahabite is the Nazi of our age. We have let them in and acceded to their poisonous demands. This we can do no more.