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JK Rowling attacks Murdoch for tweet blaming all Muslims for Charlie Hebdo deaths









Peaceful Muslims are no more responsible for terror than I am for Murdoch, says Harry Potter author














JK Rowling responded to Rupert Murdoch's tweet following the Charlie Hebdo killings. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP




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Sunday 11 January 2015 08.44 EST







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JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has condemned and mocked the tweet from Rupert Murdoch which insisted that even peaceful Muslims must bear responsibilities for jihadi attacks.
“I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate,” she tweeted on Sunday.


— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)
January 11, 2015
I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I'll auto-excommunicate. http://t.co/Atw1wNk8UX



The News Corp boss’s tweet on Saturday morning said that “maybe most Moslems” were peaceful but all must be held responsible “until they recognise and destroy their growing jihadist cancer”.


— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch)
January 10, 2015
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.



It was promptly retweeted more than 4,000 times, and marked as a “favourite” by more than 2,000 people. It also attracted much criticism on Twitter, which increased when Murdoch followed it up with a tweet attacking political correctness.


— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch)
January 10, 2015
Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy.



He tweeted: “Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy.”


— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)
January 11, 2015
.@dom209 The Spanish Inquisition was my fault, as is all Christian fundamentalist violence. Oh, and Jim Bakker.



In response, Rowling sarcastically offered to take responsibility for the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition: “The Spanish Inquisition was my fault, as is all Christian fundamentalist violence.” She added: “Oh, and Jim Bakker” – a reference to the American televangelist, whose New Year message included bitter attacks on “these people” (Muslims) and claims that God had revealed to him that the US military will never win another war, as a result of the US backing abortion, secularisation, and breaking the Ten Commandments.


— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)
January 11, 2015
.@peeyushmalhotra Eight times more Muslims have been killed by so-called Islamic terrorists than non-Muslims. http://t.co/JXLfZOmcKl



In follow-up tweets, Rowling cited a recent study suggesting that eight times as many Muslims as non-Muslims had died in terrorist attacks. She also praised “the courage and compassionate actions” of Lassana Bathily, the Muslim employee of the kosher supermarket that was the target of the second siege in Paris, who hid Jewish customers from the gunman by leading them to a basement chiller room.
His actions, she wrote, “remind us of what ‘humanity’ ought to mean”.



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