Prospero | Johnson: Blasphemy

Dangerous words

The divine may not care about blasphemy. Maniacal followers on Earth do

By R.L.G. | BERLIN

THE news from Paris today has been grim. Gunmen killed, at the current count, twelve people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly.

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