Assorted Charlie Hebdo links

1. Ross Douthat, on “the blasphemy we need.”

2. “A thorough understanding of the Iconoclast period in Byzantium is complicated by the fact that most of the surviving sources were written by the ultimate victors in the controversy, the iconodules.” That is from Wikipedia on the Iconoclastic debates.

3. Against Daumier (splendid visuals too).

4. Juan Cole on the attacks.  And .  And insulting Monty Python (video).

5. And, for something completely different, here is a video of dos niños colombianos.