Charlie Hebdo Quotes:

If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

- Amir Taheri

topic: Charlie Hebdo, Paris, Community, Muslim Community

People aren't going into gay bars in Orlando and saying, "Jesus Christ!" They're not going into the Charlie Hebdo, the 85-year-old priest who was beheaded on his alter, [the assailant wasn't] yelling Jesus Christ.

- Michael T. Flynn

topic: Jesus, Gay, Charlie Hebdo, Orlando

A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

- Adam Gopnik

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Book, Charlie Hebdo, Musical, Cartoon Shows, Broadway Musical

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: Religious, Thinking, Charlie Hebdo, Unwise

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

- Scott Simon

source: "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

topic: Charlie Hebdo, Trying, Way

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

- Scott Simon

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topic: Appreciation, Kids, Charlie Hebdo, Sacrilege

Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

- Scott Simon

source: "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

topic: Charlie Hebdo, Way, Different, Daily Show

Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

- Scott Simon

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topic: Charlie Hebdo

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

- Salman Rushdie

source: "Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’". blogs.wsj.com. January 07, 2015.

topic: Religious, Art, Real, Weaponry, Charlie Hebdo

Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.

- Scott Simon

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topic: Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

- Scott Simon

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Charlie Hebdo

What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

- Glenn Greenwald

topic: Religious, War, Mean, Cartoonist, Radical Islam

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

- Simon Schama

topic: Father, Tyrants, Political, Charlie Hebdo

There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Religious, Rights, Media, Jihad, Western Media

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Islam, Trying, Magazines, Horrific, Tropes