Gun Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo – 12 Dead!
Charlie Hebdo was under threat for years after mocking Islam in previous issues.
Charlie-Hebdo upset the Muslims when they published this in 2006…
The French Paper Charlie-Hebdo bears the headline “Mohammed stressed out by the fundamentalists” and a cartoon of the prophet in tears uttering the words “It’s hard to be loved by fools.” (AFP)
The cartoons solk like hotcakes in France
The satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which today printed all 12 of the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed plus a new front-page caricature of its own, raised its print run after selling out at many locations, management sources said. Its normal print run is 100,000 copies, and it plans another 160,000 copies in a second printing. (AFP)
Here’s another offensive cartoon from 2012.
Here’s another cartoon from 2011.
Christoph says: The cartoon at the end does not show Mohammed, it shows Dominique Strauss-Kahn, he says: it’s more beautiful here (in Libya) than in Lille, and You get less screwed than in New York.
In 2005 Charlie Hebdo published the Danish Mohammad cartoons.
.@Charlie_Hebdo_'s October 1 cover, the most recent satirizing the Prophet Muhammad, and #ISIS. #jesuischarlie pic.twitter.com/5ViGtEWnik
— Chris Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 7, 2015
Four Cartoonists were killed in the attack.
4 cartoonists who died in the attack on #CharlieHebdo – AFP pic.twitter.com/UmyMvBKAa8
— Times of India (@timesofindia) January 7, 2015
The terrorists shot their way up through the building today.
They were screaming, “Allahu Akbar!” as they murdered the reporters.
French Newspaper Firebombed in 2013 After Posting Mohammad Cartoon on Cover