[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Two conflicting sides on whether there should be limits to the liberty of self-expression clashed violently Wednesday in a usually tranquil side street on the Right Bank of Paris.When it was over, a dozen people lay dead -including some of the most prominent political cartoonists and satirists in France, and the police officers assigned to protect them.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo mourned the slain as "martyrs of freedom, of freedom of the press, the pillar of democracy," and called upon all freedom-loving people to hold a solemn march in their memory Thursday.
Normally we'd ignore such drivel, but since the source is the Associated Press we might comment that it is in fact drivel. Either you're free or not free to say or publish what you want. What "clashed" -- a class usually implies both sides were fighting, if I remember my English language correctly -- was Western values with an alien, inimical culture. This sort of reaction is why the "clash" was able to happen.