The Charlie Hebdo Backlash

A swath of prominent American literary figures are worried by the support for Charlie Hebdo after the shootings earlier this year. but their arguments don’t always tarry with reality:

Elsewhere, the #JeSuisCharlie brigades were admonished for affiliating with an anti-Arab magazine whose “staff was white,” a point not contested by editor Moustapha Ourrad because he had annoyingly just been murdered by religious psychopaths. Nor did Zineb El Rhazoui protest, likely because she was too busy mourning her dead friends and cobbling together the newspaper’s first post-bloodbath issue.