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On the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo slaughter — 12 people killed in all — carried out by two Muslim brothers shouting “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad,” there was what appears to have been an attempt at a “commemorative” attack. A man identified as Sallah Ali approached a police station with a meat cleaver and a reportedly fake suicide vest, and was shot dead before he could exercise his grisly memorial intentions.

Could be, I suppose, the late Mr. Ali just wanted to remind the world how perturbing cartoons are. Yet, even after his fortunately aborted reminder, and after the far more brutal executions of the original attack, there are still some who mewl that while “everyone agrees that executing 12 people was not really right … still, those cartoons were tasteless, juvenile, blather,” and the rest.

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The emasculating logic of political correctness always seeks a path to throw dirt on the victims, while offering something of a clearance sale on the responsibility of the murderers. As it is the essence of political correctness that the tolerant society — the open, multicultural, diverse society — is always both catalyst and agent for the horrific deeds of those from intolerant societies.