The murders at Charlie Hebdo: are we really Charlie?

Posted on January 13, 2015 
Filed under Opinion

Dr Mike Ovey“It feels like we are at war. Doesn’t the flood of reaction to the mass murders at Charlie Hebdo, especially over recent days, look like a drawing-together before a common enemy? The ‘I am Charlie Hebdo’ mantra implies unanimity, a very clear sense of ‘us’: this was a war-crime by ‘them’ against all of ‘us’. …

But who is the ‘us’ and who is the ‘them’?…”

– Mike Ovey in London writes this opinion-piece on the Oak Hill blog.