OPINION
America's Je Suis Charlie Moment
William Marshall | Sep 15, 2025
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I am outraged. We are all outraged. As I write this, three days after the brutal, senseless and very public execution of Charlie Kirk, there seems to be a collective, palpable feeling of anger across our nation over this young man’s death.
Apart from the obvious outlandishness of an innocent man’s life being taken from him in the presence of his wife, two small children and thousands of onlookers at an open-air university talk, there is something more.
Aside from the demonic nature of a sneak attack by a monstrous individual perched on a rooftop two hundred yards away from a completely defenseless target, vulnerable to an easy line-of-sight kill-shot by an experienced shooter with a high-powered, scoped rifle, there is something more.
Ignoring the fact that Charlie was using his remarkable rhetorical gifts to try to engage those with whom he disagreed on political, cultural and moral issues, and a cowardly opponent, lacking the ability to debate him intellectually, chose to silence him with a bullet, there is something more.
What is that “something more”?
As I’ve dwelt on this, it dawned on me that this same inchoate sense of outrage, helplessness and stupefaction that is gripping much of America now, both conservative and liberal in outlook, is what the French people felt in the wake of the attack on another “Charlie” – the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, on January 7, 2015.
In that shocking slaughter, two Frech-born Algerian Muslims, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, forced their way into the nondescript offices of the Charlie Hebdo publication. The Kouachi brothers were determined to avenge what they viewed as the desecration of their religion, following Charlie Hebdo’s publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
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