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Street Artist Combo Brutally Attacked for Pacifist Tag Post Charlie Hebdo

It seems like something one would be hard pressed to disagree with: the word “coexist," written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C," a Star of David as the letter “X," and a Christian cross as a “T."

But in Paris, this particular iteration of the popular inscriptionâ€"here, created by the street artist Combo, who also pasted a life-size photo of himself next to itâ€"didn't go down well with everybody. Le Monde reports that four young people asked the artist to remove it last weekend, and beat him up severely when he refused to do so.

Combo ended up with a dislocated shoulder and many bruises.

The attack is characteristic of the inter-religious tensions that plague France and have been exacerbated by the Charlie Hebdo tragedy (see 12 Killed at Magazine Previously Attacked for Satirical Cartoons). Combo declined to discuss the identity of his assailants. “It would only add fuel to the fire," he told the French newspaper.

[Atheon]

Goddamn right-wing thugs

[Solitary]

I think it was very creative him. It takes brains to be creative, not so much to be offended by a symbol to the point to do violence, it only requires one to use symbols to justify their ignorance and violent natures, just like people use religion. Solitary