The first edition of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo to be published since its offices were attacked by terrorists Wednesday will feature its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to its attorney.
Richard Malka told French radio station France Info that the caricatures will appear in the one-million-copy print run due out Wednesday.
“We will not give in. The spirit of ‘I am Charlie’ means the right to blaspheme,” Malka said, as quoted by Reuters.
He added that the front page would be released Monday night.
American news outlets wrestled with whether or not to republish Charlie Hebdo’s disputed cartoons in the wake of the terror attacks. The Associated Press, CNN and the New York Daily News, among others, either stopped distributing images showing the cartoons or blurred them out in favor of verbal descriptions of the caricatures. Other outlets including Gawker republished the uncensored cartoons.
Big middle finger to the assassins.
I like.
Sorry, mes amis, drawings or pictures of ANY human or animal is not acceptable in Islam … not for any purpose.
On the other hand, there are plenty of valid, scathing, accurate statements you can write about many people who claim to belong to Islam. Some of them even come from Muslims themselves. You can also repurpose many “Aggie” or “conservative” jokes and not be far off the mark.
Did you hear about the 13 French Muslim terrorists who drowned when their Toyota pickup truck missed the Disneyland Paris gates and flew into the lake instead?
They couldn’t open the tail gate in time
Under the banner of fighting back and not backing down, they’re going to print what likely will be seen as gratuitous insults by the very people who have it in for them. Whether it’s courage or bravery we’ll find out. Bonne chance.
I sense a Homer Simpson aspect to Charlie Hebdo’s attitude.