Charlie Hebdo Ganesha Cartoon
Most of its employees came from hara kiri another satirical magazine which was banned after it mocked the death of former french president charles de gaulle.
Charlie hebdo ganesha cartoon. In the extremely graphic cartoon the hindu deity lord ganesha jerks hebrew prophet moses jesus christ and buddha simultaneously using two hands and his trunk because he has an elephant s head. The weekly received backlash again in 2012 after publishing a cartoon criticizing religious muslims and jews. Charlie hebdo s republication of the cartoons drew new condemnation from states including iran pakistan and turkey al qaeda has threatened french satirical weekly charlie hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff after it republished controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed the site observatory said on friday. Around 200 people in istanbul demonstrated on sunday against a french magazine s decision to republish cartoons of the prophet mohammed.
The latest charlie hebdo cover shows a dozen cartoons first published by the danish daily jyllands posten in 2005 and then reprinted by the french weekly in 2006 provoking outrage across the muslim world. In the center of the cover is a cartoon of the prophet drawn by cartoonist jean cabut known as cabu one of those killed in the massacre. In a more recent issue the magazine published a cartoon depicting a member of the islamic state group beheading muhammad.