I'm writing you from Nice. I heard about the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, and I thought I should check in with you and tell you that I'm okay. The apartment I am living in with my friends was 2 kilometers away from the Charlie Hebdo office that was attacked. It's hard to believe that we live so close to where the attacks occurred. Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine that publishes many comics. The magazine has published multiple comics of Muhammed. Extremists were offended by the comics because depicting an image of Muhammed is against their religion. Two brothers stormed the magazine office and shot many people. Another man that was involved with them took hostages at a supermarket. Eventually, all three men were caught and killed. In many places in the world, we have the freedom to say what we want to. I believe that people should have the right to say what they would like to say, and no one should take away that right. The extremists should have never reacted that way, it was extremely violent and did not help their cause. So many people were killed and they were innocent. I hope everyone that was personally affected by this is doing well.
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