This is my first thread and I do believe in my heart that a important one. It was an attack agaisnt liberty of speech, journalistic media, comedie and humanity.

``Several people have been killed by armed gunmen in a shooting at the Paris offices of a satirical magazine, according to French media reports.

Shooting was heard at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine known for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2011.``

some work(some nsfw): https://www.google.ca/search?q=Charlie+Hebdo&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=gC2tVIhl07bIBM3OgvAH&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1435&bih=867

edit: the artist know as :Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Wolinski was killed in the attack

source: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/gun-attack-on-french-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo-kills-11/

:(

You're putting a lot more sense into pretty regular attack than it deserves.

ah sorry for that lock this up :) !

I hope this will be the only extremist terrorist attack this year. Very sad...

General dicussion threads do not appear on the main page if I'm not mistake, so it's better to go with this one imo. Up to a mod to decide, of course.

Given the number of lone wolf jihadist attacks last year and the fact that we are scarcely one week into 2015, that seems incredibly unlikely.

Correct, but why don't we all have some hope for the future, eh? Progress!

Because there's every indication that the trend is accelerating and, unfortunately, no reason to expect or even hope otherwise.