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Hugh Schofield in Paris on the murders of 12 people, many of them famous cartoonists, at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He argues that what the magazine wanted to point out to Islamists in France is that there is a difference between mockery and persecution; that words and pictures are only just that; and that part of the deal is that we rise above offence - yes, even when its towards our religion.

And he misses the world of the anarchic 70s when the worst that could happen when you showed a perhaps offensive cartoon was a letter in Le Figaro newspaper from "outraged" from Aix-les-Bains. Now you die.