This Muslim Cop Is The Fallen Hero Of The Charlie Hebdo Shooting Almost Everyone Is Overlooking

This Muslim cop is the fallen hero of the Charlie Hebdo shooting almost everyone is overlooking

In the hours following the deadly attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, much of the public support has been directed toward the victims that worked for the magazine, like editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier, 76-year-old cartoonist Jean Cabut and economist Bernard Maris.

The recognition of their ultimate sacrifice in the name of free speech and open discourse is beautiful, but it’s equally important to remember that the lives of the victims extended beyond the confines of the magazine. Two of those killed, 42-year-old Ahmed Merabet and 49-year-old Franck Brinsolaro, were police officers — the very people tasked with protecting Charlie Hebdo’s staff. Merabet’s death was captured on film during a French television broadcast and shared quickly across social media. Two masked gunmen can be seen approaching him, ignoring his pleas to spare his life.

Ahmed Merabet’s sacrifice matters

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2014 Warmest Year In Modern Record

Earth’s surface temperature was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20thcentury average, making it the warmest since records began in 1880, NASA and NOAA scientists reported today.

Each agency did its own independent analysis. Their results were nearly identical, and both analyses matched work done by the UK and Japanese meteorological agencies. They found that nine of the 10 warmest years on record occurred since 2000. This year in the U.S. also marked the 18th consecutive year that the average temperature exceeded the 20th century average.

“This is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades. While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases,” said NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt. Read more here and here.

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