“If we republished the cartoons today, we would be alone again, the attack did not make people more courageous, on the contrary.”
Indeed. If they republished the cartoons today, they would be roundly denounced as “Islamophobes” and shunned by the enlightened Left and the cowardly Right.
“Charlie Hebdo Boss Blasts Leftist ‘Collaborators’ in New Book on 2015 Terror Attack,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, October 5, 2019:
The head of Charlie Hebdo has blasted leftists and others in a new book about the 2015 radical Islamic terror attack on the satirical French magazine’s office.
Laurent Sourisseau, more commonly known in France as Riss, tells the story of the terror attack in January 2015 that claimed the lives of 12 people, the majority his fellow Charlie Hebdo writers and cartoonists, France Inter reports.
While the book, titled One Minute Forty-Nine Seconds, describes the moments of the attack, part of the book also speaks out against the Islamic radicals who sought to silence the satirical magazine through violence.
Riss’s anger also targets those he terms “collabos” or collaborators. He includes several categories of people such as “the reactionary Muslims, the Trotsky-Stalinists, the cowards, the followers of secularism, the informers of Islamophobia”, as part of the collabos….
In a prior interview with French magazine Le Point, Riss expressed little hope that anything has changed since 2015, saying: “If we republished the cartoons today, we would be alone again, the attack did not make people more courageous, on the contrary.”
Despite the attack, Charlie Hebdo has continued to satirise and lampoon anyone and everyone on the political scene in France and has received backlash several times, including death threats over a cover involving Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan in 2017.
While the magazine does still take risks on its content, former Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui said in 2017 that the magazine had lost its edge and “gone soft”.
Steve says
I’m not sure who is more of a threat to the freedoms of the west, the left wing progressive commies, or Islam.
clive delmonte says
Plus one !
Infidel says
Both! If only we could toss them all into a sandbox and leave them there, it would be interesting to watch.
James Lincoln says
It’s all synergistic, Steve.
gravenimage says
Damn good question, Steve.
Bob Jones says
WOW! I never thought of it that way. The religion of peace have the edge because they have the guns and dogma.
Nona says
Not that Hebdo were innocent, little angels. What they publish is ABSOLUTELY disgusting!
Walter Sieruk says
As concerning those Charlie Hebdo jihadist attacks as well as other murderous affronts of Islamic terrorism in the nation of France. The French people are showing wisdom regarding dangers of Islam and jihad terrorism. This new awareness of the part of the French is the results of many evil action of violence and murder by Muslim terrorists. In France.
As seen in that jihadist who had committed his murderous attacks in the French city of Strasbourg last December was indeed most heinous Even before this Strasbourg Muslim terrorist attack there were those vicious ISIS jihad attack and those brutal murdering Islamic terror attacks in Paris on July 14 and then on November 13, 2015 and then that Nice, France jihad murdering jihad attack on July 14, 2016 in an ISIS audio recording broadcasted on September 2014 declared “If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French …kill him in any manner or way however it may be.” [1] This alone exposes the vicious and malicious way of thinking of the jihadist who composes ISIS. The result of this wicked mindset where those heinously malice – filled jihad mindset was carried out by those by those Islamic jihadist deadly attacks in Paris and Nice. Furthermore the jihadists of ISIS sure have some gall calling the French “spiteful” since it’s the jihadist ISIS thugs who are so very spiteful that they murder people in many extremely cruel ways. Likewise, the ISIS savages have some gall calling the French “filthy” Since it’s the ISIS jihadist villains who the ones who are so lawless and vile that the kidnap and rape both girls and women.
It’s only a matter of time before there will be further jihad attacks in France. It’s not if but when another violent and deadly Islamic terror attack or attacks will happen .
[1] THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer Page 44
Chris says
How are the French showing wisdom when they STILL failed to elect Marine?! It breaks my heart. Yellow vests are too little too late.
mortimer says
Laurent Sourisseau is my HERO! Bravo, “Riss” !
“Riss” is totally correct: the French COLLABORATORS of the jihadists have allowed the jihadists to succeed in bringing CENSORSHIP throughout the West.
Islam is a DEATH CULT that must be courageously condemned by all conscientiously moral people.
The Leftarded collaborationists are CRAVEN COWARDS and two-faced, smug, doctrinaire virtue-signallers who are totally lacking in real virtue.
The collaborationists are the oh-la-la FASHIONISTAS of the ideology of the last five minutes.
mortimer says
NO CHANGE ! Situation normal … nothing to see here! Move along.
“If we republished the cartoons today, we would be alone again, the attack did not make people more courageous, on the contrary.”
NOTHING HAS CHANGED … he’s right … the Leftard collaborationists are still craven cowards … perhaps moreso.
Kessler says
The attack did what it was intended to to – stopping Charlie hebdo and anyone else in the West from blaspheming against Islam. CH was suddenly “no longer interested” in mocking islam/Muhammad, and there has been nothing mainstream since. Islamists have won the free speech war and together with the left, they have moved on to sharia stage 2. Anything considered critical of Islam is being silenced/shut down at an alarming rate.
Madge Hirsch says
Nonsense. I am a subscriber to Charlie Hebdo and read it from cover to cover every week. I can assure you that there has been plenty mocking of Islam and Islamists since the 2015 attack and one of their cartoonists still occasionally draws a figure that is unmistakably Mo. There have been umpteen editorials from Riss and columns by Biard criticising Islam and the Islamo gauchist alliance. Most people here who spout about Charlie have never read it . I doubt they know sufficient French to do so. They just parrot crap from Breitbart. Like in this article. There is no way that Riss would have blamed “secularists”. This is either a mistranslation of what he said or a misunderstanding. He constantly emphasises the need to uphold French laïcité – whicb btw is not at all like the Anglo Saxon concept of secularism.
Madge Hirsch says
I have listened to the video of Riss linked to below and he certainy did not “blame ” secularism . What Breitbart has said is a total mangling of his words, which were that one must maintain a Republican and laïque stance without falling into the trap of xenophobia.
Maura Labingi says
Hi Madge, thanks for this comment. I don’t visit Jihad Watch often but good to see you posting here.
gravenimage says
Charlie Hebdo boss blasts Leftist “collaborators” in book about 2015 jihad massacre
“If we republished the cartoons today, we would be alone again, the attack did not make people more courageous, on the contrary.”
……………..
Grimly, Riss is right. What did “Je suis Charlie!” really mean to many people? Not much, apparently…
Norger says
Yes, “je suis Charlie” turned out to be nonsense in the end. I recall being struck also by the failure of the US to send a high level official to the rally of world leaders in Paris following the jihad terror massacre of cartoonists, although I wasn’t surprised, what with “the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
gravenimage says
Yes–it was appalling but predictable that Obama sent no one.
vladtepesblog says
Here is the interview with the Charlie Hebdo writer:
https://d.tube/v/vladtepesblog/QmYR4NoWU7fjQB2z41md3DLWyKxkygzMkNzs8ns4NfjDBd
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Vlad.
Chris says
I’ll never forget my horror listening to the author Will Self use his spot on the BBC’s Radio 4 to speak about how Charlie Hebdo were “punching down” with their sayire and basically that they were asking for it. He was an author read by many of my perrs at University (who also happen to share his absurd moral failings and who I no longer associate with). How I yelled at my car radio in disbelief. As Sam Harris said so succinctly: “people were murdered over cartoons: end of moral analysis” and yet this entirely correct position seems too simple for our big brain sociopaths. Ockham’s Razor is discarded in the pursuit of appeasment to The Cult. I will never, ever come to terms with this massive failing in to my estimate approximately 50% of the human population and am just relieved i had not had any children before realizing it. RIP the heroes at CH and my most sincere and complete denunciation of the fools who are protecting this abomination.
mummymovie says
VIVE LES MORTS DE BATACLAN
mummymovie says
LAN ASTASLEM
We will not submit.
infidel says
Nothing less than the FORCEFUL EXPULSION of this vile cancer from Europe will do now!!! The Eu sadly is as good as gone.
mummymovie says
The brazen, unbridled carnage of Charlie alone, let alone the heinous mass murder of those who attended the Eagles of Death Metal show at Bataclan should have, by itself, been enough to sway so-called “progressives” (transgressives) away from the unGodly phenomenon of self-indulgent complacency and selfishly cathartic, self-gratifying virtue-signaling that has been inflicting Western Civilization en masse, rapidly sowing the seeds for its destruction, and hastening our demise: Western Europe, the cradle of Western Civilization, has disappeared before our very eyes in the last few years, and yet it still just feels so good to know your own righteousness, that we watch in horror self-righteous “progressives” -embracing the most oppressive ideology in the history of mankind; receiving widespread support from self-styled cultural Marxists and neo/pseudo revolutionary fashionista newbies, otherwise ordinary moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, recently enlightened by the “Information Superhighway” always feeding them intoxicating propaganda, available on their touchscreen smartphones they stare at all day long- refuse to grow up, in favor of becoming “activists”.
Meanwhile, our muslim conquistadors traipse along the red carpet we’ve rolled out for them, all the while celebrating and laughing at just how easy it is to subvert and use our liberal laws against us, amazed that they don’t really have to shed our blood unless they periodically desire to do so, amazed at our guilt-fed fire sale of a glorious civilization hard-earnedly built from the blood, sweat, and tears of our forebearers.
France isn’t alone in this regard: All western nations are equally complicit in giving everything away to islam.
strambotik says
You mangled the translation. He doesn’t condemn “the followers of secularism”, he condemns “the followers of RELAXED secularism” (les adeptes de la laïcité apaisée).