The Mighty Pen?

Posting here two editorial cartoons following yesterday's despicable massacre in Paris. Putting on a brave face. 

The question is, Will there be anyone left with the courage to continue the "mission" of those who died? It's not entirely clear that western media and political leaders won't continue to kowtow to radical Islam. One day after the attack, President Obama's press secretary announced that Obama will be placing a priority on fighting Islamaphobia. Even today, some news outlets either won't print or are obscuring the offending cartoons from Charlie Hebdo (even while will permitting offensive images of Jesus Christ). 

So while yes, in the immediate aftermath of this assault on freedom of the press, millions of people are raising their pens in an expression of solidarity with the journalists and cartoonists who died in the massacre (Je suis Charlie), others are chiding them, among them this horrible man named Bill Donahue from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who wrote that it's " too bad [Stephane Charbonnier] didn't 'understand the role he played in his tragic death."

So yes, raise your pens, raise your signs. But after that, will we write? draw? publish? We can only hope. 

Rob Tornoe 

Lucille Clerc