Charlie Hebdo returns the cartoon of the Prophet, Macron calls freedom …

BEIRUT – President French Emmanuel Macron declined to comment on the results of the satirical magazine Charlie hebdo republish Prophet Muhammad cartoon sparking a wave of anger in the Muslim world when they were first printed.

“It has never been a place for a Republican president to judge a journalist’s editorial choice or newsroom, never. Because we have freedom of the press, ”Macron said during a visit to Lebanon quoted by Sputnik, Wednesday (2/9/2020).(Read: When visiting Beirut, Macron was asked to help the Lebanese government’s revolution)

However, Macron added that French citizens should show mutual courtesy and respect and avoid hateful dialogue.

The comments were made when Charlie Hebdo, the satirical weekly, said on Twitter that they would reprint 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on the eve of the 2015 trial of the magazine’s alleged accomplice of the magazine’s offices by gunmen in Paris.(Also read: Charlie Hebdo magazine republished cartoons of the prophet Muhammad)

“We will never lie on our stomach. We will never give up,” wrote editor Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau as a supplement to the cover.

Among the cartoons, most of which were first published by Danish newspapers in 2005 and then by Charlie Hebdo the following year, a shows the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb with a lit fuse.

The cartoons have sparked a wave of outrage in the Muslim world, where any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is considered an insult.

Before the deadly attack, the online Islamic militant group had warned Charlie Hebdo’s side about the consequences of publishing the cartoon.