I HAVE no words for the executions at the Paris offices of the publication Charlie Hebdo.

I stand in solidarity with the right to free speech, the right of Charlie Hebdo to do satire. But I will not pretend to know what it has been like living with Charlie Hebdo in my newsstands every week, will not pretend to understand the complexities that surround these discussions on religion and fundamentalism, free speech and journalism, in the context of Paris all these years and in the present.

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