Local cartoonist Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse) has spoken out strongly against the shootings in Paris France yesterday.
"I don't think this is about God any more," Johnston told BayToday.
"It's about power and the ability to kill without being caught. Thinking, moral and religious people don't behave this way. What a waste of talent and mind. It's the families who suffer, not the media. This feeds it!"
The National Cartoonists Society, of which Johnston is a member, was also swift in its denunciation of the murders saying it "condemns the barbaric terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, and our hearts go out to the cartoonists, satirists, their families, and all of France. This was the work of insecure cowards who apparently fear their religion is so weak that it can’t withstand criticism, and who must fear the God they purport to worship isn’t big enough, strong enough, or wise enough to take a joke. The NCS would like to point out these three criminals do not represent the religion of Islam, but are murderers taking lives of their own accord.
"We stand with the brave cartoonists and journalists, and we stand with their families, because an attack on free speech anywhere is an attack on free speech everywhere."
The horrific attack on the magazine in France yesterday morning left 12 people dead.
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