Does George W. Bush Write for The New Yorker Now? Mag Serves Up Kool-Aid: Islam is a Religion of Peace that Had Nothing to Do with the #CharlieHebdo Massacre

 

"A tribute at the Place de la Republique, in Paris, to victims killed during the attack at Charlie Hebdo" (Aurelien Meunier/Getty)
 

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Apparently, Bush has adopted the nom de plume, “Packer.”
 

The Blame for the Charlie Hebdo Murders
By George Packer
January 7, 2015
The New Yorker

The murders today in Paris are not a result of France’s failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They’re not about French military action against the Islamic State in the Middle East, or the American invasion of Iraq before that. They’re not part of some general wave of nihilistic violence in the economically depressed, socially atomized, morally hollow West—the Paris version of Newtown or Oslo. Least of all should they be “understood” as reactions to disrespect for religion on the part of irresponsible cartoonists.

They are only the latest blows delivered by an ideology that has sought to achieve power through terror for decades. It’s the same ideology that sent Salman Rushdie into hiding for a decade under a death sentence for writing a novel, then killed his Japanese translator and tried to kill his Italian translator and Norwegian publisher. The ideology that murdered three thousand people in the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The one that butchered Theo van Gogh in the streets of Amsterdam, in 2004, for making a film. The one that has brought mass rape and slaughter to the cities and deserts of Syria and Iraq. That massacred a hundred and thirty-two children and thirteen adults in a school in Peshawar last month. That regularly kills so many Nigerians, especially young ones, that hardly anyone pays attention....

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