This is to those who think honor is killing someone who offends you.
This is to those who think killing someone who expresses his basic freedom of speech can be rationalized, those people who are the worst kinds of the kinds, the people who are even more dangerous than the terrorists who actually kill.
This is to those whose skin is so paper-thin a joke proves to be too much for them to handle.
This is to those who think their religion tells them they should kill, who think they have the right to take a human life.
Because no one should die for drawing a picture,
Because no one should die for writing a page,
Because no one should die for freedom of expression.
We may be used to death and horror where we live, but that’s no excuse not to feel disgusted and horrified at what happened in Paris today.
Because the best thing we can do now is to express ourselves unlimitedly, and because publications in my country may prove to be too cowardly to publish these, I present the many covers that got narrow-minded bigoted cunts to kill 12 innocent souls in France today.
From Beirut, this is Charlie Hebdo.
1 – Mahomet Débordé (2006):
In 2006, following the uproar over the Danish caricature of the Prophet Mohammad, Charlie Hebdo republished the pictures in an issue, to the outcry of many, and to the lawsuits of others.
2 – Oui A La Burqa (2010):
Following the ban of the Burqa in France in 2010, Charlie Hebdo came out in support of the decision. In case people thought their title of this issue was open to interpretation, they illustrated it very clearly.
3 – Charia Hebdo (2011):
In November 2011, to “celebrate” the victory of the Islamists in Tunisian elections, Charlie Hebdo renamed their issue to “Charia Hebdo”, a play on the French world for “Sharia,” and featured the Prophet Mohammad as a guest editor. A molotov cocktail was subsequently thrown into their offices, destroying everything, and their website was hacked to only show the phrase: “There is no God but Allah.”
4 – Intouchables 2 (2012)
In 2012, following the release of “The Innocence of Muslims,” Charlie Hebdo released this spin over the then-widely popular French movie “Intouchables.” The issue also had several caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in various compromising positions. Needless to say, threats against them and against many French embassies rose to stratospheric heights. As a result, French embassies and cultural centers in many countries were forced to close.
5 – Le Coran C’est De La Merde (2013):
In 2013, to comment on the crackdown on Islamists in Egypt, Charlie Hebdo wrote an issue in which they made fun of those Islamists for finding the Quran not to be as “bullet-proof” as they once thought.
6 – Si Mahomet Revenait (2014):
In October 2014, to comment on the rise of ISIS and their video-taped public executions of many foreigners and locals alike, Charlie Hebdo published a cover depicting what most people around the world know about the terrorists: that they have nothing to do with Islam. Of course, everyone knows this but the terrorists themselves.
7 – En 2022, Je Fais Ramadan (2015):
To comment on the rise of Islam in France, Charlie Hebdo’s first issue of 2015 was a satire on how come year 2022, France will start observing Ramadan as a regularity. I suppose this didn’t such very well with some of the masses.
To those who think the publication is also only anti-Muslim, here are two covers that are anti-Christian:
May all the artists and visionaries at Charlie Hebdo who lost their lives today rest in peace. The world will remember them forevermore as the brave people who drew their pen to those who drew a weapon at them. And there’s no better memory to leave to an unjust world like ours today.
I don’t know why, but in the last picture it says “immortal” in Dutch (onsterfelijk).
Rest in Peace to the victims.
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That’s because it’s by a dutch artist.
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Ah, figures.
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and y not covers at all anti judaism or critisizing jews!!!!!!!
Anyway violence should never be justified
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That’s your first point? In fact, there were covers criticizing and mocking Judaism. You may not have seen then but only if you didn’t search for them. They condemned all religious and political extremism with their cartoons. But there was a stronger focus on Islamic extremism simply because there’s a lot more of that right now in Europe. They also mocked the far-right…
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“But there was a stronger focus on Islamic extremism simply because there’s a lot more of that right now in Europe.” This is patently untrue. Muslim extremists account for a tiny fraction of European terrorism. Same in the US. Tiny fraction. There are people who study these things…For instance the European law enforcement agency Europol found that between 2004-2008, 99.6 percent of European terrorism was carried out by non-Muslims. That’s .4 percent carried out by Muslims. I’m sure you can find more recent reports.
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There’s plenty of those as well. France is not a country to shy away from criticizing Israel and Zionism.
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That’s very brave of you to do. Kudos!
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I don’t think it’s that brave. They’re the ones who drew these.
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