Oh ye of little faith
The suspect confirms the motive.
A man suspected of stabbing two people with a meat cleaver in Paris has admitted to deliberately targeting the former offices of the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, French media report.
The man, an 18-year-old born in Pakistan, reportedly linked his actions to the magazine’s recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
I never can understand why religious fanatics don’t just let their god deal with it. Their god is supposed to be all-powerful and perfect, so why does it need their help?
Thinking their god needs human help to eliminate enemies betrays a certain feebleness in the belief department, if you ask me. The goddy murderers might as well be atheists.
The suspect, who was arrested not far from the scene on Friday, had “taken responsibility for his action”, sources told AFP, adding that he placed his actions “in the context of the republication of the cartoons”.
Oh well that’s all right then.
There you go, applying reason to religious fanatics again. ;)
One would think that his god could at least have let him know about Charlie’s change of address.
On a side-note, are there no editors anymore?
A professional journalist who doesn’t know the difference between a cleaver and a knife? That cleavers are used to chop, to hack, to cleave? That cleavers lack the sharp pointed tip required to stab? One could excuse such a basic error from a year 10 pupil, but this was written by a BBC journalist. I can almost hear John Humphreys screaming into the void.
There are indeed no editors any more, or at least not enough good ones. Those missing second commas! They’re everywhere!
I can imagine “cleaver” being a bit of a puzzler though. The more correct terms sound kind of horror movie, kind of as if the reporter is trying to gross us out. I think I would hesitate over it if I were the reporter.
I see no problem with ‘wounding’, maybe ‘severely-‘ or ‘greviously wounding’ if warranted.
Describing the weapon, or the assailant, in plain language is no longer acceptable.
This is definitely another instance of declining linguistic ability; they could just have written ‘slashed’ with a cleaver.
I know where they are. They are showing up in the book I’m reading, stuck in places where a comma makes reading the sentence with any degree of coherence extremely difficult. That, coupled with the fact of an erratic and chaotic layout, makes what would be a good book otherwise a slog.