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French Satirical Paper Hits Back After Firebombing
November 03, 2011

View of the premises of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France on Wednesday after they suffered destruction due to an incendiary bomb attack overnight. According to Police sources the fire started around 1:00 a.m. Charlie Hebdo had published a special edition with a cartoon of Mohammed, saying: View of the premises of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France on Wednesday after they suffered destruction due to an incendiary bomb attack overnight. According to Police sources the fire started around 1:00 a.m. Charlie Hebdo had published a special edition with a cartoon of Mohammed, saying: '100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!'. (EPA Photo/Julien Muguet)
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DrDez
7:06am Nov 5, 2011

Val - I know it is real and today the general message is peace and love - It has not always been so. Fake? Well from the fact that people wrote it and rewrote it no its not. From the position of an athiest then yes it is as with most if not all religious scriptures - they were written to fulfil needs - understanding, control or to dispel fears. THey are all man's work

That does not take anything away from the core meaning of Christianity and the core meaning of ISlam.

JPB

Clearly you think we are seeing the rise of an ISlamic Empire.... I do not, the evidence is the opposite

PS I have no issues with interfaith unions - Indeed one of my son's (who follows his mother) married a Muslim in 1991. They remain true to their own beliefs and it seems to work ok - the kids go to a non religious school and when old enough will choose what they want to do. I suspect they will chose nothing since they are questioning kids

JPB - If your child wanted to marry a non muslim would you be as tolerant?

Valkyrie
6:50am Nov 5, 2011

justapasserby,

I have to go along with mauriceg, especially on what was mentioned in his last para.

Can you do that please. I will understand if the 'poster' appears to be a troll and submits silly and or obnoxious comments.

And by the way, I feel that Vanu was being rather nice with his responses to your remarks.

mauriceg
10:05pm Nov 4, 2011

@justapasserby - Modern day Gypsies are apparently the descendents of the survivors of massacres perpetrated around 800 years ago in the Hindu Kush.

Please stop this apologism for Muslim barbarism, violence and bloodshed.

Valkyrie
8:49pm Nov 4, 2011

DrDez,

I am not sure if you're familiar with the Holy Scriptures (Holy Bible). The reason I am saying this is that if we are to discuss the issue of whether Jesus is the person Christians worship then sufficient knowledge of the Old and New Testaments is important.

I am not a Bible scholar but I do believe that I have adequate knowledge to initiate a discussion.

Perhaps you may want to tell me if you believe that the Holy Bible is, to put it bluntly,...a fake?

I would like to be honest with you here. Personally I dislike a discussion about faith. It's too sensitive in nature. I shall leave it to you.


DrDez
7:08pm Nov 4, 2011

Val - it is a question I have asked Muslims for 60 years - why? Well because I believe there is much that is common and people focus far too often on the differences and the focus on Mohammad and his place has caused significant deaths

JPB - I hope you can provide an answer

Moog

There are very detailed accounts by the Romans detailing the period showing a figure that is Jesus and they cross check with Jewish records. I would not argue with you if you said he was just a man and his preaching hijacked to form a religion within a religion. However I am convinced he was a real man

Was he the figure Christians acknowledge? Probably not

But I guess as with Isalm it is the belief that remains central rather than fact which is a major issue with all religions that worship unseen omnipresent beings I guess

Paris. Cartoonists from a French satirical weekly which was firebombed as it published an edition featuring the Prophet Mohammed as “guest editor” on the cover hit back in another newspaper on Thursday.

Staff with Charlie Hebdo ran a series of cartoons in the latest edition of the left-leaning daily Liberation, offering a humorous commentary on the attack that destroyed their offices on Wednesday.

“After Greece, save ‘Charlie,’” ran the headline on a front page drawing by ‘Catherine,’ one of the papers’ cartoonists. Other cartoons featured on the first three pages of Liberation.

The weekly’s staff are currently working out of the Liberation offices, one of a number of expressions of support from journalists and politicians.

French politicians were quick to condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris.

“Freedom of expression is an inalienable right in our democracy and all attacks on the freedom of the press must be condemned with the greatest firmness,” Prime Minister Francois Fillon said in a statement.

“No cause can justify such an act of violence.”

Interior Minister Claude Gueant told journalists at the scene: “Of course everything will be done to find the perpetrators of this attack, and this must certainly be called an attack.”

Francois Hollande, the socialist candidate in next year’s presidential election, also denounced the attack, saying in a statement: “No attack on liberty of the press can be accepted.”

The attack came the day Charlie Hebdo renamed the weekly newspaper Charia (Sharia) Hebdo and featured a front-page cartoon of the prophet saying: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!”

The depiction of the prophet’s face is strictly prohibited in Islam.

The newspaper’s Web site also appeared to have been hacked on Wednesday: its regular home page had been replaced with a photo of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a message reading: “No god but Allah.” The Web site was later unavailable.

Police said the fire at the newspaper’s offices in eastern Paris started around 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. No one was injured in the blaze, which a police source said had been caused by a petrol bomb.

The magazine’s publisher, known only as Charb, said he was convinced the fire was linked to the special edition.

“On Twitter, on Facebook, we received several letters of protest, threats, insults,” which had been forwarded to the police, he said.

“This is the first time we have been physically attacked, but we won’t let it get to us.”

In a statement, the satirical weekly said it was “against all religious fundamentalism but not against practising Muslims.”

“We are for the Arab Spring, against the winter of fanatics,” it said, adding later that all 75,000 copies of the edition had quickly sold out.

The weekly had said it would publish a special edition to “celebrate” the Ennahda Islamist party’s election victory in Tunisia and the transitional Libyan executive’s announcement that Islamic Sharia law would be the country’s main source of law.

It would feature the Prophet Mohammed as guest “editor,” the newspaper said.

As well as the cover cartoon, a back-page drawing featured Mohammed wearing a red nose and accompanied by the words: “Yes, Islam is compatible with humor.”

In 2007, a Paris court in 2007 threw out a suit brought by two Muslim organizations against Charlie Hebdo for reprinting cartoons of Mohammed first featured in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The cartoons had sparked angry protests by Muslims worldwide.

The Danish daily sent a message of solidarity to Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

Lars Munch, who heads the media group that owns Jyllands-Posten, said in an interview published on the paper’s online edition that “it is terrible and completely unacceptable that a medium’s freedom of expression is threatened with violence.”

The head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui, also condemned the attack.

“If this was a criminal fire, we firmly condemn it,” he told AFP.

But the council also said in a statement that it condemned “the newspaper’s mocking tone with regards to Islam and its prophet.”

“Our problem now is to be able to put a paper out next Wednesday,” Charb said. “There is soot everywhere, the computers are in my opinion dead, the electrical system is melted.”

Agence France-Presse