Europe and Je Suis Charlie

Je Suis Charlie: But as the dust settles over Wednesday broad-daylight strike on Europe most audacious satirical magazine, backlash and the prospect that the nativist wave now could swell into something approaching tidal seems dangerously real, according to Toronto Star. The spontaneous show of solidarity was matched in town squares elsewhere in France and around the world, answering an attack on modernity with modernity itself. The bilingual memes Not Afraid and Je Suis Charlie took hold globally and Long before terror visited Paris with shocking precision , the wave was rolling: a surge of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim sentiment rising from Europe political margins, threatening to wash fear upon the centre. The early signs were encouraging in the immediate aftermath of the commando-style strike on unapologetically secular Charlie Hebdo. Even as a police dragnet bore down with three gunmen still at large , Parisians voted with their lives, gathering in the thousands at Place de la R publique in stoic defiance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.