Drawing Charlie Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons
Backlash against french magazine charlie hebdo has grown in pakistan over the magazine republishing cartoons of prophet mohammed more satirical weekly charlie hebdo the target of a massacre by islamist gunmen in 2015 reprinted the controversial caricatures this week to mark the start of the trial of the alleged accomplices in the attack.
Drawing charlie hebdo muhammad cartoons. The french satirical newspaper charlie hebdo is to republish controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad to mark the start of a trial of suspected accomplices of terrorist gunmen who attacked. Those threats related to charlie hebdo s publication of cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad. The cover of the latest charlie hebdo issue shows a dozen cartoons first published by the danish daily jyllands posten in 2005 and then reprinted by charlie hebdo in 2006 which unleashed a. It published cartoons of muhammad in 2012 forcing france to.
Many muslims consider any portrayal of the prophet s likeness sacrilegious and millions were. Charlie hebdo gained notoriety in 2006 for its portrayal of a sobbing muhammad under the headline mahomet débordé par les intégristes muhammad overwhelmed by fundamentalists. France s charlie hebdo sells out with mohammed cartoons reprint. In the center of the cover is a cartoon of the prophet drawn by cartoonist jean cabut known as cabu who lost his life in the massacre.
Within its pages the magazine published 12 cartoons of the prophet muhammad bringing unprecedented condemnation from the muslim world. Charlie hebdo reprints mohammed cartoons for trial. Paris paris french satirical weekly charlie hebdo the target of a massacre by islamist gunmen in 2015 said tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad.