One of the writers for satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the target of a deadly attack in January, said that the magazine’s cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad are different from the contest to draw Muhammed in Texas over the weekend.
Jean-Baptiste Thoret, a Charlie Hebdo film critic, told PBS’ Charle Rose that there’s “absolutely no comparison possible” between the Charlie Hebdo attack and the shooting outside of the Muhammed cartoon contest held near Dallas by anti-Islam group American Freedom Defense Initiative.
“To be honest, I can’t imagine the kind of comparison you can make between the Charlie Hebdo attack January 7 and this event,” Thoret told Rose when asked for his reaction to the Texas attack.
Thoret said the contest in Texas was part of a “very harsh movement against Islamization of the U.S.”
He said that at Charlie Hebdo, the writers and cartoonists were “criticizing” religion, “not Muslim people in particular.”
Watch the clip below via PBS:
H/t Mediaite
