• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/14/laffaire-charlie-hebdo-and-western-colonialism/

    These men were fighting with Western-backed rebels in Syria to overthrow Assad, which is where they learned to kill.

    And it’s important to note their Algerian heritage because France occupied Algeria as recently as 1962 when it gained independence from France. Their parents didn’t immigrate from Algeria to France in a vacuum.

    This was blowback.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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      19 hours ago

      Do you think they fought in Syria to promote freedom and democracy or to promote an Islamist system?
      How does killing cartoonists, who are notably against conservatives, helps with decolonization? They should hit some far right journal that denies colonization crimes instead.