Charlie Hebdo To Release Special Edition 10 Years After The Islamist Attack

Weirdly, most non-French news outlets discussing this aren’t saying what is really in it. It’s almost like they do not want to offend some people

Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years since Paris attack with defiant special edition mocking God

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo unveiled a special edition on Monday to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by Islamist gunmen that decimated its staff.

The front-page features a cartoon celebrating the atheist paper’s existence with the caption “Indestructible!”, while four inside pages show the results of a caricature contest to mock God and religious leaders.

“Satire has a virtue that has enabled us to get through these tragic years: optimism,” said an editorial from director Riss, who survived the January 7, 2015, massacre that left 12 people, including eight editorial staff, dead.

The 2015 attack by two Paris-born brothers of Algerian descent was said to be revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s decision to publish caricatures lampooning the Prophet Mohammed, Islam’s most revered figure.

The massacre of some of France’s most famous cartoonists signalled the start of a gruesome series of al-Qaeda and Islamic State plots that claimed hundreds of lives in France and western Europe over the following years.

And, yet, the political Elite in France and Europe didn’t get the message that it’s a bad idea to allow these Islamic extremists into their nations

The weekly had called on cartoonists to submit their “funniest and meanest” depictions of God in a typically provocative and defiant contest for the special anniversary edition.

“Yes, we can laugh about God, especially if he exists,” said a headline over what the paper said were the best 40 out of more than 350 entries.

Along with some typically crude and sexually explicit images, one of them makes reference to the Prophet Mohammed with the caption “if I sketch someone who is drawing someone who is drawing someone who is drawing Mohammed, is that OK?”

It shows a cartoonist drawing a picture of another cartoonist who is working on a picture of a cartoonist drawing a bearded figure who looks like Mohammed.

Most outlets are just mentioning the making fun of God part, not the making fun of Mohammed and Islam part

Critics say the weekly sometimes crosses the line into Islamophobia, pointing to some of the Prophet Mohammed caricatures published in the past that appeared to associate Islam with terrorism.

Yet, when they make fun of Christianity and Judaism, which they’ve done many times, no Christian or Jew has gone on a murderous rampage. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole thing. I believe most of the ones I had uploaded to Photobucket from the 2015 edition have been killed off for being mean, like

In fact, you’ll have a tough time finding the cartoons from that specific edition on Google, without digging deep. Don’t want to offend the murderous jihadis, eh?

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