The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

"Charlie the Bedouin" publishes cartoons of Muhammad again Israel today

2020-09-01T18:36:09.502Z


| EuropeThe decision is made against the background of the opening of the trial of 14 accused of aiding a terrorist attack in the newspaper's offices • "We will never give up, the hatred that hit us still exists," the editor writes Today (Wednesday) the trial of 14 people accused of aiding the Islamist terrorist attacks carried out in the capital of Paris in January 2015, in which 17 people were killed -


The decision is made against the background of the opening of the trial of 14 accused of aiding a terrorist attack in the newspaper's offices • "We will never give up, the hatred that hit us still exists," the editor writes

Today (Wednesday) the trial of 14 people accused of aiding the Islamist terrorist attacks carried out in the capital of Paris in January 2015, in which 17 people were killed - including four in a Jewish supermarket - will open under strict security measures.

The main target of the attacks was the editorial of the French satirical weekly "Charlie the Bedouin", in whose offices two extremist Muslim brothers massacred 12 of the workers.

The three terrorists who carried out the series of terrorist attacks were eliminated by French internal security forces.

Prosecutors provided the killers with logistical assistance at various levels.

French Interior Minister Gerald Derman has described the sentence as "historic".

The National Prosecutor for Terrorism, Jean-François Ricard, made it clear that those on trial were not "small aides."

"These are people who were logistically involved in the preparations for the terrorist incidents, who provided funding, operational equipment, weapons, housing. All of these are essential for carrying out terrorist acts," Ricard stressed.

On the occasion of the opening of the trial, the "Charlie the Bedouin" editorial board decided to republish on the front page of the weekly the cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad, which were the cause of the terrorist attack on the newspaper's editorial office in Paris.

These are cartoons that were first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005 and provoked angry and violent demonstrations throughout the Muslim world, due to the religious ban on drawing the character of Muhammad and also because of the connection created by some of the cartoons between Islam and terrorism.

In the Western countries, a heated debate erupted at the time as to whether the publication of these cartoons constituted a violation of the feelings of Muslims or whether their non-publication constituted a violation of the principle of freedom of expression and art.

"Charlie the Bedouin" published the same cartoons a year later - nine years before the terrorist attack on the newspaper's offices.

In the center of the front page of the new weekly, a special issue of the trial, entitled "It's All Because of It" - a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad painted by one of the victims of the attack, the murdered French cartoonist Joe Cabo.

In the cartoon, Muhammad is seen covering his eyes angrily for his inability to control the extremists and saying, "It's hard to be loved by fools."

"We will never fall asleep, we will never give up," writes weekly editor Lauren Soriso in an editorial.

"The hatred that hurt us still exists, and since 2015 it has evolved and changed its appearance so that they will not notice it and it will be able to quietly continue its crusade."

The weekly's editorial made it clear that since the terrorist attack she had received inquiries to publish other cartoons of Muhammad.

"We have always refused, not because it is forbidden - the law allows us to do so, but because a good, meaningful reason was needed, which would add something to the public debate."

The opening date of the trial is a good reason, for that matter.

Source: israelhayom

All news articles on 2020-09-01

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-27T16:45:54.081Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.