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Je Suis Charlie and the legacy of jihadism

14 September 2020

7:22 PM

14 September 2020

7:22 PM

‘You have insulted the prophet – we are al-Qaida Yemen.’ These words, terrifying yet clichéd, were spat at a female cartoonist just moments before the massacre of 12 people in and around the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015. Their crime? Drawing.

The trial of those accused of abetting the slaughter continues in Paris this week.

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