November 8, 2011
Charlie Hebdo Releases Image Of Post-Explosion Cover
The Guardian has a short piece up on how the French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo will be responding in this week's issue to having their officers blown up last week after they featured Muhammed on the cover, re-titled the magazine "Sharia Hebdo," and put out a press release declaring that the Prophet Muhammed was the issue's guest-editor. It's mostly a re-hash of what we already knew -- statements from the editor and primary cartoonist, the fact the offices moved to
Liberation -- but with the information that this week will feature a cartoon by Luz featuring a Muslim man kissing a cartoonist in front of the wreckage of the offices. The article points out, in what may be the most darkly humorous thing you'll read all week, that at least the Muslim man isn't outright identified as Muhammed. I don't know if there will be any backlash to this similar to last week's bombing, and one hopes not, but it should provide plenty of ammunition to those that believe the magazine editors were needlessly provocative in doing last week's issue.
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