Millions of copies of the French weekly Charlie Hebdo sold out within minutes Wednesday, just days after attacks in Paris last week left more than a dozen people dead.
The satirical magazine announced last week it would continue with its weekly publication, increasing its print run to 3 million copies. The latest issue, featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, quickly sold out before dawn, The Associated Press reported. That is more than 50 times its normal circulation, with millions more copies expected to arrive.
Survivors of last week’s attacks, during which 17 Parisians were killed and many from the magazine, worked in borrowed offices to continue working on this week’s issue.
This is, of course, the exact opposite of what the terrorists want. As almost anyone over the age of ten knows, the point of terrorism is to make people live in fear and capitulate.
Just like the American media loves to do.
The pathetic rationalizations from various media entities in the United States over why they won’t print any of the “offensive” Charlie Hebdo covers have been a remarkably sad spectacle. How does a news entity operate under a permanent editorial directive to always avoid being “deliberately offensive”?
The truth almost always offends somebody.
Oh…makes sense now.
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