Algerian Offers to Buy Charlie Hebdo to Defend Freedom
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Rachid Nekkaz gave up French citizenship, put off by what he sees as the nation’s anti-Muslim policies. Now his attachment to the country’s values is prompting him to offer to invest in Charlie Hebdo, the satirical weekly ravaged by an Islamist massacre this week.
“This carnage is a declaration of war on civilization,” Nekkaz said in a telephone interview from Algeria, where he moved a year and a half ago to run for president. “No Muslim in the world can accept that a human being is assassinated in the name of Islam.”