The office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo was destroyed after the satirical paper put a drawing of Muhammad on the cover and jokingly named him its "editor-in-chief." No one was hurt.
Witnesses say a Molotov cocktail was hurled through a window, setting fire to the computer system and destroying the entire office. The paper's website was also hacked.
The image that some religious zealot was willing to kill over, by the way, was this:
Terrifying stuff. But there is never a bad time to take a stand for basic freedom and against those that would attack it, even if it is done in the odious name of 'religious tolerance'.
I will let Christopher Hitchens close more eloquently than I could:
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