The writers who are protesting about Charlie Hebdo have picked the wrong target
How quickly the “Je suis Charlie” moment passed. For a week or two after the jihadi massacres of journalists and hostages in Paris, every trend-hopping celebrity piped up in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo. Inevitably, the wheels soon fell off that bandwagon. Always brash, sometimes crass, never politely liberal, the scurrilous French weekly turned out to have quite as many enemies as friends.