Charlie Hebdo re-runs Prophet Mohammad cartoons to mark attack trial

 

FILE PHOTO: Flowers are seen outside the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's former office on the fifth anniversary of the attack and a siege at a Kosher supermarket which killed 17 people in Paris, France January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes -/File Photo

 

PARIS (Reuters) - French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is republishing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad which unleashed a wave of anger in the Muslim world to mark the start of the trial of alleged accomplices in the militant attack against it 2015.

 

Among the cartoons, most of which were first published by a Danish newspaper in 2005 and then by Charlie Hebdo a year later, is one of Mohammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse protruding.

 

"We will never lie down. We will never give up," editor Laurent "Riss" Sourisseau wrote in a piece to accompany the front cover that will be published in print on Wednesday.

 

Twelve people, including some of the magazine's best-known cartoonists, were killed when Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and sprayed the building with automatic gunfire.

 

The Kouachi brothers and a third Islamist gunman who killed five people in the 48 hours that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre were shot dead by police in different stand-offs, but 14 of their alleged accomplices go on trial on Wednesday.

 

The decision to republish the cartoons will be seen by some as a defiant gesture in defence of free expression. But others may see it as a renewed provocation by a magazine that has long courted controversy with its satirical attacks on religion.

 

After the 2006 publication of the cartoons, Jihadists online warned the weekly would pay for its mockery. For Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.

 

"The freedom to caricature and the freedom to dislike them are enshrined and nothing justifies violence," the French Council of the Muslim Faith wrote on Twitter in response.

 

Muslims have previously said the turban cartoon branded all Muslims as terrorists, as did a Charlie Hebdo cartoon showing the Prophet reacting to Islamist militants by saying: “It’s hard to be loved by idiots.”

 

In 2007, a French court rejected accusations by Islamic groups that the publication incited hatred against Muslims.

 

(Reporting by Richard Lough; Editing by Giles Elgood)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-02

 

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I stopped reading Charlie Hebdo after the attack. For whatever reason, the quality of the cartoons got a lot worse.

Good news. Nothing wrong with satire and if not embraced then what can we do?  We won't be bullied and fair play to the French for their resilience.  

8 minutes ago, Poet said:

I stopped reading Charlie Hebdo after the attack. For whatever reason, the quality of the cartoons got a lot worse.

 

For whatever reason?  Maybe because most cartoonist were killed during the attack?

 

 

 

1 minute ago, dimitriv said:

 

For whatever reason?  Maybe because most cartoonist were killed during the attack?

Whoosh!

Good news, but I hope they have good security.

Be a real winner if the bookies started taking on bets.

 

 

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This is great! Let´s just se if the group that laughs behind the back of others can keep their people clam and behave in a civil manner this time. I very much doubt it, though.

Good for them it’s about time for the Muslim mullah learn to have a sense of humor heavan knows everyone takes pot shots at all the religions they don’t get all bent and start killing people 

3 hours ago, torturedsole said:

Good news. Nothing wrong with satire and if not embraced then what can we do?  We won't be bullied and fair play to the French for their resilience.  

And you really belivethat is still a "satire"? have you learned nothing of have going on with the world in the last 20-30 years vis-a-vis the world Vs. Islam/Muslims?...

24 minutes ago, ezzra said:

And you really belivethat is still a "satire"? have you learned nothing of have going on with the world in the last 20-30 years vis-a ve theworld Vs. Islam/Muslims?...

in France blasphemy is no crime and religion can be mocked . 

Superstition and ignorance won't have the final word

 

- Macron february 2020 ; Declaring blasphemy “is no crime,” French President Emmanuel Macron defends a young critic of Islam who has been receiving death threats and harassment on social media.

" The law is clear: we have the right to blaspheme, to criticize, to caricature religions. "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/12/macron-wades-into-french-girls-anti-islam-row-saying-blasphemy-is-no-crime-mila

 

- Macron february 2020 ;  "political islam" has "no place" in France

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200218-France-Macron-Mulhouse-unveils-strategy-fight-Islamist-separatism

 

- Macron september 2020 : "I Won't Condemn Cartoons of Prophet Mohammad" "There is in France a freedom to blaspheme which is attached to the freedom of conscience. I am here to protect all these freedoms. In France, one can criticize a president, governors, blaspheme,"

https://www.dw.com/en/emmanuel-macron-refuses-to-condemn-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad/a-54788078

 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Opl said:

in France blasphemy is no crime and religion can be mocked . 

Superstition and ignorance won't have the final word

 

Given mass economic immigration from the Muslim world and the high fertility of Muslim women, it's not inconceivable that the superstition and ignorance of Islam will have the final word and freedom of speech will be lost, not only in France, but across much of Western Europe.  Even in a democracy, their tendency to vote according to the diktats of the local mosque means that their influence can far outweigh their statistical numbers.

Just now, Oxx said:

 

Given mass economic immigration from the Muslim world and the high fertility of Muslim women, it's not inconceivable that the superstition and ignorance of Islam will have the final word and freedom of speech will be lost, not only in France, but across much of Western Europe.  Even in a democracy, their tendency to vote according to the diktats of the local mosque means that their influence can far outweigh their statistical numbers.

- Macron february 2020 ; ""A problem arises when, in the name of religion, some want to separate themselves from the Republic and therefore not respect its laws,” 

 "political islam" has "no place" in France

https://www.france24.com/en/20200219-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-in-france-in-bid-to-combat-separatism

Christian and Muslim loons. 

Fighting and killing millions each other hundreds years already. 

The Bible is fiction. The Quran is fiction. 

 

Can believe 100 year ago. But science proof it now. 

Amazing people in 2020 believe this. 

And fight. And kill about it. Everyday. 

 

Up to them if believe that. But kill the other team? For what. 

 

Ranong have lot muslim. Some Christian (not much). No problem here. Why France want problem. For what.

 

Stupid people. (The loons)

 

What Santa think about kill everybody? 

8 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Why France want problem. For what.

if you knew what the French did to their monarchy, you wouldn't ask

Thank you Charlie Hebdo.  We must mark the attack trial.

The zealots ordering death are only following the example of the prophet who once had two girls put to death for singing a satirical song about him. He had a thin skin, had no sense of humor and was violent, how can you expect his followers who think he was the perfect man to be different?

17 minutes ago, johnray said:

Thank you Charlie Hebdo.  We must mark the attack trial.

the entire trial will be filmed, just like Klaus Barbie's one has been ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/barbie-trial-shown-on-french-tv-635059.html )

and it's rare enough to be mentioned.  

37 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

the prophet who once had two girls put to death for singing a satirical song about him

Not true.  Only one girl was put to death.  The other ran away, and was ultimately pardoned by the oh-so-compassionate Mohammed.

 

And anyway, what is one girl compared with the hundreds upon hundreds he murdered, such as the 300+ Jews of the Banu Qurayza tribe because they refused to accept him as a prophet?

1 hour ago, Oxx said:

 

Given mass economic immigration from the Muslim world and the high fertility of Muslim women, it's not inconceivable that the superstition and ignorance of Islam will have the final word and freedom of speech will be lost, not only in France, but across much of Western Europe.  Even in a democracy, their tendency to vote according to the diktats of the local mosque means that their influence can far outweigh their statistical numbers.

This is certainly true of Pakistan where the Mullahs have never got more than 15% of the vote. But they have street power and the politicians have long ago put up the white flag.

57 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

The zealots ordering death are only following the example of the prophet who once had two girls put to death for singing a satirical song about him. He had a thin skin, had no sense of humor and was violent, how can you expect his followers who think he was the perfect man to be different?

The Kouachi brothers told just after the killing that they belong to a group of Anwar Al Awlaki, part of Yemeni Al Quaida franchise.

 

This Anwar Al Awlaki died in 2011 in Yemen, while the Kouachi brothers did the killings 4 yours later in 2015. 

 

Witnesses inside the Charlie Hebdo building surviving the attack are talking about 3 persons : 2 persons were armed, the third one wasn’t armed and didn’t join the 2 others with the car.

 

The 3rd person didn’t join the Kouachi brothers in their escape and unmasked hold up in a shop with a bazooka north of Paris. Not really Islamic fashion to steal money with a bazooka.

 

Later on the day they went to eat a burger in a Quick fastfood restaurant close to the Belgian border. Bacon and burgers are grilled on the same non-hallal plate.

After the burger meal they went back closer to Paris to hide in a random factory. They didn’t use the bazooka against the police force of +/- 200 men.

 

Your 2+1 zealots didn’t really behave according to traditional Islam.

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Can believe 100 year ago. But science proof it now. 

Yes, science has proofed it. There is definitely no point in anyone having any kind of faith.

12 minutes ago, Thorgal said:

 

Your 2+1 zealots didn’t really behave according to traditional Islam.

'I was made victorious with terror'- the Prophet Mohammad

The Hadith, collected by Bukhari (4.52.220)

"my god is better than your god, you have to die"

 

and that is why I am an atheist

 

 

All of the mainsteam media including Charlie Hebdo still support mass migration of Muslims and others into the West. Charlie Hebdo isn't on our side here, what they do just makes sure migrants hate us and see all white people as 'racist' when they get here, leading to more violence and unrest, which the elites are perfectly happy about.

1 hour ago, Orton Rd said:

'I was made victorious with terror'- the Prophet Mohammad

The Hadith, collected by Bukhari (4.52.220)

Etymology of the word “terror” has changed since the origin of religious wars in that time and region. 

Moreover, you refer to a hadith that has been composed and written down +/- 200 years after the life of the Prophet.

 

The killings of Charlie Hebdo case were even mentioned and applauded in a fake religious context on a website. The website mentioned “The Almighty” Prophet which is impossible and against basics of traditional Islam.

 

I’m not a Muslim and even me, I know that Muslims believe in Allah the almighty god and Muhammad is their Prophet. Even Jesus Christ and Abraham are Prophets in Islam.

Typical apologist response- the words meant a different thing then and written down long after- so was the Quran and the rest of the Hadiths, you cannot pick and choose what to accept as genuine and what not to accept based on when it was written down. There is no proof the the main Hadith and most respected is any less reliable than any other.

Leaving scripture aside Mohammad clearly did engage in warfare with the Meccans, agreed to a peace treaty then deviously broke it to attack Mecca again. He had Jews executed after promising them amnesty, robbed caravans and had people killed on a whim, sounds like terror to me. BTW Voltaire never said that quote, a biographer did long after he was dead

Heads will roll no doubt ????

Good on them to take a stand.  And they now nervously await to be murdered by the "peaceful religion."