Kerry Draws Fire for Saying Charlie Hebdo Attack Had `Rationale’

Kerry, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris on Tuesday, said last week’s terror attacks in the city were “absolutely indiscriminate”, unlike the assault on the staff of the satirical publication, which had frequently lampooned Islam. After the attack on Bataclan, which is just blocks away from the Charlie Hebdo offices, cartoonist Johann Sfar posted a cartoon to his Instagram encouraging people not to pray for Paris, saying “we don’t need more religion”. “There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy – not a legitimacy – but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, ‘Okay, they’re really angry because of this or that'”.

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, Saturday, September 7, 2013. It was to terrorize people.

In January, Charlie Hebdo faced criticism for depicting prophet Muhammad on its first front cover following the attack on its offices, with many news outlets refusing to publish the image. “Two months after the January attacks, there were reports that the weekly’s staff was divided on how to spend its cash, which one French headline deemed “.

This time however, The Islamic State of Iran and the Levant aka ISIS have since taken responsibility for the the Paris attacks.

On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is also seeking the GOP presidential nomination, called Kerry’s comments “truly stupid”. That we’re not who they are?

A few years ago, Secretary of State John Kerry famously told a group of German students that “In America you have a right to be stupid – if you want to be”. PHOTOS: Memorials set up at Paris terror attack sites Seeing the Eiffel Tower reminds me of when we were in Paris in 2002.

One wonders whether the president did not attend the ceremonies in France, as other Western leaders did, after the Charlie Hebdo murders because he imagined there was a few “rationale” for the violence.

“Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush tweeted: “@JohnKerry’s comments sum up the Left’s distorted view of barbaric islamic terrorism”.

But Christie did not dwell on Kerry’s remarks, instead training his sights on Obama and his would-be Democratic successor Hillary Clinton, both of whom Christie slammed as attempting to demonize Republicans.