Like millions of others around the world, I’m horrified and grief-stricken by the sickening events that unfolded in Paris this week
writes the Daily Telegraph's
Mark Johnson,
that snuffed out the lives of 12 innocents in a brutal and murderous attack.
It’s
difficult to comprehend the malignancy that orders the death of innocent
people in the name of anything, let alone a religion. The French
national motto ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ has been tested, but it
will prevail.
As a
nation now takes the time it needs to mourn the terrible loss of January
7, Charlie Hebdo – the name of the newspaper where the attacks were
focused – is at the same time becoming world famous as a symbol of
defiance against those who would seek to control freedom of expression.
