John Kerry Justifies Terror Attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris Remarks

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11/17/15 | Morgan Chalfant

[markomalley]

Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to justify the terror attacks on the headquarters of magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this year during remarks in the capital of France Tuesday.

The Weekly Standard reported that Kerry distinguished the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo from the shootings and suicide bombings in Paris Friday for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

“There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of–not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that,” Kerry said in Paris Tuesday.

“This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That’s not an exaggeration. It was to assault all sense of nationhood and nation-state and rule of law and decency, dignity, and just put fear into the community and say, ‘Here we are.’ And for what? What’s the platform? What’s the grievance? That we’re not who they are?”

“They kill people because of who they are and they kill people because of what they believe. And it’s indiscriminate. They kill Shia. They kill Yezidis. They kill Christians. They kill Druze. They kill Ismaili. They kill anybody who isn’t them and doesn’t pledge to be that,” Kerry continued.

“And they carry with them the greatest public display of misogyny that I’ve ever seen, not to mention a false claim regarding Islam. It has nothing to do with Islam; it has everything to do with criminality, with terror, with abuse, with psychopathism–I mean, you name it.”

Gunmen shot and killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Jan. 7, four of them well-known cartoonists with the magazine and two of them police officers. The magazine is known for its cartoons of Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

Witnesses heard the attackers yelling “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” and “God is Great” in Arabic. The gun attacks gave way to days of heightened security and police operations in Paris.

Following the assault on Charlie Hebdo, the Obama administration refused to describe the perpetrators as supporters of “radical Islam.”

[ETL]

From Jan 2015...

Folked up diplomacy: A week late, John Kerry and James Taylor remind France "You've Got a Friend"

By Doug Powers | January 16, 2015

The Obama administration didn't send a high level official to the rally in Paris last Sunday (the president was of course unaware of what was going on), and John Kerry showed up today with an apology and an offering:

Kerry brings singer to Paris presser to play "You've Got a Friend" after US no-show at rally

What, no Joan Baez? If ISIS wasn't on the run before that, they will be now.

http://michellemalkin.com/2015/01/16/folked-up-diplomacy-a-week-late-john-kerry-and-james-taylor-remind-france-youve-got-a-friend/

[TigerClaws]

They did the same thing about the video / Benghazi. Said it was understandable.

Obama then (Constitutional law expert that he is) apologized to the world for our First Amendment.

[mathprof]

Not All Lifes Matter

[deweyfrank]

FUHF!

[freespirit2012]

John Kerry could not get any dumber... lol..

[TigersEye]

A nation that doesn’t hang its traitors
ends up putting them in office.

[Diogenesis]

In his long quest to help Islamic terrorists,
Kerry ignored warnings BEFORE the 911 Atrocity
and then helped found the terrorist mosque
that led to the Boston Atrocity.

[samtheman]

At least it has nothing to do with islam.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Old horse face sided with the North Vietnamese back in the 60s and early 70s so this is nothing new.

[doc1019]

Great point.

[stocksthatgoup]

Gee, I thought it was all about a video.

[tflabo]

HF?

[jaz.357]

"F" Lurch!

[Lurkinanloomin]

“Jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam” - John Brennan CIA Director

[Salman]

Kerry is on the side of whoever wants to kill us.

[butlerweave]

Kerry is always confused and needs a nap

[Williams]

He Should Resign Now

[Read Write Repeat]

John Kerry believes people exercising their right to free speech deserves to lose their lives if a certain religion demands it.

Am I correct in my interpretation of his remarks?

[Williams]

The quintessential leftist. “Understanding” why someone would murder you over nothing. It’s your fault.