Yes, Jacob you do not know what it was about. Adress the particular situation? There were 1.5 million people there. Those people were not of one hive mind. There were people on the left standing up for our western liberties, there were people from the middle who tought they needed to give a signal to reconcile and unify the country. There were people that think it’s not nice to kill people and also people attending for plain racist motives, anti-islamist and people supporting the Front National… and there were people who tought they needed to tag allong because ‘something important’ was going on.
Now the battle for the meaning of it all, the interpretations, starts… who gets to recuperate it politically? You have one politically inspired interpretation… that it’s about the collision of western culture and Islam, which is a bit ironic considering all the people stumbling over each other to stress that this was NOT against the majority of muslims or against the islamic religion in general. And it’s all the more ironic considering the attack was against leftist Charly Hebdo.
A few important exceptions to freedom of speech… What about freedom of religion? That gives us the right to impose specific prohibitions on the minds of our children. A little tweaking won’t suffice, you need to butcher the right if you want to do something about that.