The attack on the building of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris turned the whole, not just the satirical world, into black. It is a new attempt to attack freedom of expression, which is most strongly squeezed by religious sentiments. The flatmates of the cartoonists, who paid for their work with their lives, responded to the situation in the best way they know how. With caricatures that say what a thousand words couldn't - break a pencil and there will be two!
To the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, all the world's politicians and other "big men" responded, passing the microphone to each other in front of the television cameras and swearing that terrorism cannot win. But it seems that they sent the strongest message to the extremists right cartoonists with satirical caricatures.
With this, they paid their respects in the best possible way to their fallen colleagues, who were sharply sharpened pencils fought for freedom of expression, one of the pillars of a free society.
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Although we find either sadness, rage, rebellion or hope in cartoons, they all have only one thing in common. The pencil remains more powerful than a gun, just as the pen was always mightier than the sword.
