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A man pays tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting at French consulate in Milan. 'What has happened since is that the Muslim community as a whole is being charged with ­collective guilt by association,' writes Sasha Simic. Photograph: Michela Nava/EPA





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The brutal slaughter at the Charlie Hebdo office was nothing but base criminality. But it was committed by three men NOT a community – still less a religion. What has happened since is that the Muslim community as a whole is being charged with collective guilt by association.
I do not recall white Norwegians being asked by the media to scrutinise their “values” and beliefs in the same way in 2011 following the murderous rampage by the neonazi Anders Behring Breivik, in which he murdered 77 people. Such an argument would have been absurd. It is equally absurd to condemn millions of people because they happen to be the co-religionists of three brutal murderers.Sasha SimicLondon



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