14/11/2015 0 Comments More Appalling Events in ParisLast evening's atrocities in Paris have caused many outpourings on social media during the day. Mine were typical of tweets: "Sympathy and thoughts towards the people of Paris. No good will come of these dreadful events." Perhaps the best words I saw today came from Billy Bragg, song-writer and political activist. He posted to Facebook: "The events in Paris last night are made all the more shocking by the fact that these murderers deliberately targeted people who were socialising on a Friday night. The language of the communique issued by ISIS, seeking to portray those at the Bataclan concert as "idolaters" attending "a party of perversity" gives us a chilling insight into the mind of these killers. This was an abhorrent attack on anyone who goes to a bar, or to a restaurant, to a gig or to a game. The fundamentalists would kill us all for enjoying ourselves. ISIS is a death cult and we who believe in life must go on enjoying ourselves in defiance of their provocations." He went on:
"This cartoon was posted last night by Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Joann Sfar in response to the attacks." The full series of cartoons can be seen here in an <article in the Independent>
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