In remarks this morning from Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry said he agreed with the French imam who called the victims of today’s murderous rampage in Paris “martyrs for liberty.”
“I agree with the French iman who today called the slain journalists ‘martyrs for liberty,'” said Kerry.
“Today’s murders are part of a larger confrontation, not between civilizations, no, but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to a civilized world. The murderers dared proclaim, Charlie Hebdo is dead. But make no mistake, they are wrong. Today, tomorrow in Paris, in France, and across the world, the freedom of expression that this magazine, no matter what your feelings were about it, the freedom of expression that it represented is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror.
“On the contrary, it will never be eradicated by any act of terror. What they don’t understand, what these people who do these things don’t understand, is they will only strengthen the commitment to that freedom and our commitment to a civilized world.”
