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Responding to murderous bullies

The media can defeat the Islamists’ terrorising threat tofree speech by themselves

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

The Paris terrorists who murdered in the name of their religion opted to attack people who draw cartoons. They didn’t blow up an army base. They didn’t kill a President or Prime Minister or some top government official. They took issue with the old saw that ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’, or in this case than a collection of semi-automatic guns.

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