Noam Chomsky opinion

Well-known linguist, author and Israel critic Noam Chomsky criticized the Western media and leadership's hypocrisy in its reaction to the attack against satirical journalCharlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed earlier this month.

Writing in a CNN op-ed published on Monday, Chomsky said that "terrorist" attacks perpetrated by the West did not spark outrage such as the Hebdo attack, nor did they bring calls for "inquiries into the roots of the attack in Christian culture and history," as the Hebdo attacks did for Muslim culture.

Chomsky gave the example of a NATO missile attack on Serbian state television headquarters that killed 16 journalists in 1999. The attack was not seen by Western leaders as an attack against the press, but rather a legitimate target in efforts to undermine the rule of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. 

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