#jesuischarlie

Hello, everybody!

Today's post is a bit different and special post. We are finally doing a collab.
Manmeet and I are going to write together about Charlie Hebdo, and about the terror attack.

"Je suis Charlie" or in English "I am Charlie" is a slogan adopted by people of free speech and freedom of expression after the 7 January 2015 massacre in which 17 people were killed at the offices of the magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris.
The slogan had become one of the most popular news hashtags in Twitter history.

Charlie Hebdo (or in English: Charlie Weekly) is a satiric magazine which is published weekly. It features mainly cartoons, but also reports, polemics and jokes. the magazine itself is anti-racist and left-wing (in other words: the act of supporting social equality).

The magazine has been targeted by terrorists in 2011 and recently in 2015 (7th of January). It has been targeted due to the Muhammad cartoons they had published. The magazine was founded in 1970, and the current editor of the magazine is Gerard Biard after the death of Charbonnier.

On 7th of January 2015, two Islamist gunmen (who claimed that they were trained by Al-Qaida) killed 12 people and 5 are wounded in Paris. These 17 people worked for the magazine "Charlie Hebdo". While killing them, the two terrorists shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the Greatest).

People who were killed:

Frédéric Boisseau

Franck Brinsolaro

Elsa Cayat

Cabu

Charb

Philippe Honoré

Bernard Maris

Ahmed Merabet

Mustapha Ourrad

Michel Renaud

Tignous

Georges Wolinski

Wounded:

Simon Fieschi

Philippe Lançon

Fabrice Nicolino

Laurent Sourisseau

Unidentified police officer


The motive of the attack was to punish those who made cartoons of the Prophet, Muhammad. As per muslims, it's not allowed to make any drawing, picture or in this case cartoons of Muhammad and Allah.
On 9 January, AQAP claimed responsibility for the attack in a speech from AQAP's top Shariah cleric Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari, citing the motive as "revenge for the honor" of Muhammad.

However, the magazine didn't stop making more Charlie Hebdo magazines.They made even more and the magazines were sold out within minutes in Paris, other parts of France and in Norway and other countries.

It's sad to see how humans kill each other in the name of religion. In my opinion, those who don't know what humanity is, those don't know what religion mean. As simple as that!!!

"Mankind was one single nation, and Allah sent Messengers with glad tidings and warnings; and with them He sent the Book in truth, to judge between people in matters wherein they differed; but the People of the Book, after the clear Signs came to them, did not differ among themselves, except through selfish contumacy. Allah by His Grace guided the believers to the Truth, concerning that wherein they differed. For Allah guided whom He wills to a path that is straight." (Quran 2:213)
- See more at: http://www.islamicity.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IC1403-5702#sthash.MxnwmxRU.dpuf

- Ritika Jaswal and Manmeet Kaur