Being the excellent present headline in Rivarol, a publication that propagates a dangerous perversion of the Catholic Faith into the ideology of the French Far Right.
It does so in achingly sophisticated fashion. I am given to understand that the technical term is "French".
What if Islamists had attacked Rivarol rather than Charlie Hebdo?
Would the world's torturers, media-repressers, heckler-arresters (that's you, David Cameron) and all the rest of them have wended their way to Paris in order to march in that most preposterous of things, a government-organised demonstration led by the very Head of State?
The burial of the fallen Police Officers with the Legion d'honneur is obviously fitting. But why not also of the cartoonists?
After all, their supposedly satirical organ is now being kept going at public expense, effectively nationalised in order to make possible an enormously expanded print run for the most boringly predictable front page imaginable.
At least in France, satire itself is now dead.
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