The slogan “Je suis Charlie Hebdo” is circulating widely in social media. Twitter is inundated with tweets about the political power of satire. Pictures of demonstrators holding pens in the air abound.
Freedom of expression is undeniably worth defending but is too narrow a frame for this event.
With this horrific event, Le Pen may well have become the front-runner in France’s 2017 presidential elections. These killings will reverberate throughout the shaky European Union, where nationalist parties of all stripes are warning of the dangers of too much immigration.
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