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The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is reissuing cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a wave of anger in the Islamic world, with the alleged participants in the attack that took place in 2015 and killed them. . “We will never bow down. We will not give up,” wrote editor Laurent Sorriso in an article accompanying the magazine cover cartoons tomorrow (September 2, 2020).
Among the cartoons, most of which were published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 and published again a year later, by Charlie Hebdo, a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban from which the fuse was suspended from switched on.
Twelve of them were killed, some of Charlie Hebdo’s most famous painters, when Said and Sherif Kouachi broke into the magazine’s Paris headquarters and sprayed the building with their automatic rifles. In separate clashes, the police killed the two brothers, Sherif and Saeed, and a third Islamist militant who killed five people in the 48 hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack, but the trial of 14 of their alleged accomplices will begin tomorrow. .
Some will see the decision to republish the cartoons as a gesture of defiance in defense of freedom of expression. But others may see it as yet another provocation from the magazine, which has long sparked controversy with its satirical attack on religion.
After the cartoons were published in 2006, Internet militants warned that the magazine would pay for its satire. In response to the cartoons, the French Council of the Muslim Faith said on Twitter: “The freedom of the cartoons and the freedom to hate them are guaranteed, and nothing justifies violence.”
In the past, Muslims have said that drawing the Prophet’s turban in the shape of a bomb stigmatized all Muslims as terrorism, as in Charlie Hebdo, pictures of the Prophet were painted talking to militant Islamists telling them that it was difficult for idiots to love them. .
In 2007, a French court rejected the claim by Islamic groups that the publication of the cartoons incited hatred towards Muslims.
QS / SM (Reuters, AFP)
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