Reactions to Paris From the Middle East Vary

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Nassrallah (Illustrative)Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese Shi’ite terror militia Hizbollah, issued a statement Friday evening condemning the shooting attack which killed 12 people at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo earlier in the week. Nasrallah declared that what he described as Moslem apostates had insulted Islam more than “even those who have attacked the messenger of God through books depicting the Prophet or making films depicting the Prophet or drawing cartoons of the Prophet.” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also condemned the attacks in Paris but added a comparison between them and Israeli policies toward the Palestinians, telling state media that the clerical regime in Tehran “condemns extremism, violence, and terrorism whether in Palestine, Lebanon and the Levant or in Paris and the United States.” Read More

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