from what I heard their dark ages began shortly after the european one with fundamentalists taking over and the science focussed/progressive arabic societies disappearing over the course of a few centuries

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The 4 star drawers (satiric) are dead, all of them were genius, and all of them were calling for toleration.

Like a famous french humorist said, "you can laugh about anything, just not with anyone".

This is a terrible attack. All of this because some extremist can't take a joke. There's a saying in French that goes "Si tu ne vaux pas une risée, tu ne vaux pas grand chose" which translate "If you're not worth a laugh, you're not worth much." I wish those guys understood that.

And here comes the explosion near the synagogue, classic. Told ya, 2015 is going to be an interesting year on all accounts.

Got goosebumps when John Kerry did his speech in French.

How ironic...

I must say their "satire" sucks major ***, old guard of political satire like Kukryniksy or current DeeS are much better. Not an excuse to murder people, of course.

AFAIK Islam wasn't particularly prone to fundamentalism until after WW2. The two-state solution and the third world population boom did it IMO.

The end of the Islamic Golden Age came from centuries of bad politics and the Mongol invasion.

Cartoons are starting to come in..

I'm not surprised. Rest in peace to those 11 who supported freedom! How many terrorist attacks must there be in Europe before Europeans stop hating Israel and start hating the rest of the Middle East?

One Religion kill knowledge ...the rest want improvement. Sad day for free speech.