The Islamist terrorists who killed 12 people at a French magazine in Paris on Wednesday were aiming to terrify the world.
What they did instead was united millions in support of free speech.
In London, Paris and Berlin, supporters thronged to downtown plazas to express support for the Charlie Hebdo, which was raided Wednesday by two Islamists screaming “Allahu akbar!” to commit murder over the magazine’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Bearing signs proclaiming “Je suis Charlie” (French for “I am Charlie”) the crowds were a sign that maybe Europe, in the process of being overrun by Muslim immigrants, might be waking up. Usually, it’s the “right wing” that gets tagged for being behind pro-Europe protests.
The size and nature of these demonstrations makes it clear how widely reviled Wednesday’s murders are.
#JeSuisCharlie: Spontaneous rallies of defiance sweep France http://t.co/z1ZPVMfLlj (Pic: Heathcliff O’Malley) pic.twitter.com/u0necIXljp
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 7, 2015
#JeSuisCharlie on a tablet held high RT @almiraat: RT @AnneLaumen: Berlin right now! pic.twitter.com/OxemxpZhiC
— Asteris Masouras 正义 (@asteris) January 7, 2015
“Keep calm and Charlie on” #jesuischarlie #london pic.twitter.com/67rptOcWO7
— Fabien Marry ✏️ (@AlphabUX) January 7, 2015
Solidarity gathering outside National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London #UK#JeSuisCharliepic.twitter.com/mWZj3X5dr3
— IHEU (@IHEU) January 7, 2015
Meanwhile, under the #jesuischarlie hashtag, messages poured in to Twitter from around the world.
What a tremendous loss. A free press is our greatest weapon against tyranny, home and abroad. #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/QTytTkGT4b
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) January 7, 2015
Photo: If we don’t have freedom of the press, what do we have as #writers? Link in profile #jesuischarlie http://t.co/vNO5cFutQb
— Katka Lapelosová (@KatkaTravels) January 7, 2015
This is the kind of freedom of press Radicals want to impose on us #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/5O53zezRe4 — Emma (@emmasuleiman) January 7, 2015
It makes you wonder if our politically correct, multicultural elites are really listening.
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