Kangana slams teacher's beheading in Paris over caricature, takes dig at 'intolerance'

Kangana Ranaut took to Twitter on Saturday and expressed shock at the brutal killing of a middle school history teacher in Paris on Friday. She condemned the act by the attacker who reportedly stabbed the teacher multiple times near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Kangana pointed out the "intolerance to criticism" of the fastest-growing religion of the world and questioned its defense by many intellectuals through her tweets.

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Terror has struck France for the second time in three weeks. A history teacher was beheaded in a street in a Paris suburb, after which the suspected attacker was shot and killed by police. Reportedly, the teacher, who was attacked with a knife around 17:00 local time, had earlier shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. This attack took place near the area called Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Currently, anti-terror prosecutors are investigating the case further. The knife-wielding attacker was shot by the police as they tried to arrest him in the aftermath of the attack.

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Prior to this incident, around three weeks ago, a man had attacked and wounded two people outside the French weekly magazine's former office. According to local media, the local people allege that the attacker is a parent of one of the students who the victim taught. 

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The incident carried echoes of the attack five years ago on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. It published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, unleashing divisions that are still casting a pall over French society. Friday's killing, by targeting a teacher, was interpreted by many public figures as an attack on the essence of French statehood, with the values it espouses of secularism, freedom of worship, and freedom of expression.

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