The President of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) called on Tuesday, September 1 to "
ignore
" the cartoons of Mohammed published again in Charlie Hebdo and to think of the victims of terrorism, on the eve of the opening of the trial of the terrorist attacks. January 2015.
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republishes the cartoons of Muhammad who had made him the target of jihadists
"
The cartoons, we have learned to ignore them and we call to keep this attitude in all circumstances,
" Mohammed Moussaoui told AFP.
The cover of the issue to be published Wednesday, online Tuesday noon, reproduces the cartoons of the prophet who had made the satirical weekly a target of the jihadists.
These twelve cartoons were originally published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, then by Charlie Hebdo in 2006. They showed the prophet carrying a bomb instead of a turban, or as a character armed with a knife flanked by two women veiled in black.
“
We'll never go to bed.
We will never give up,
”explains the director of the satirical weekly, Riss.
"
Nothing can justify violence
"
“
The freedom to caricature is guaranteed for all, the freedom to love or not to love (these caricatures, editor's note) also.
Nothing can justify violence,
”added Mohammed Moussaoui.
He called for focusing on "
the trial which begins
" Wednesday and which "
should remind us of the victims of terrorism, this terrorism which murdered in January 2015 at Charlie Hebdo, at the Hyper Cacher and in the public space.
He must also remind us of the victims of terrorism in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012, and those of November 2015 at the Bataclan and the Stade de France
”.
"
This terrorism which struck in the name of our religion is our enemy
", hammered the president of the CFCM, body which is the principal interlocutor of the public authorities on the Moslem worship.
The trial of the jihadist attack against Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead on January 7, 2015, followed by attacks that targeted a policewoman in Montrouge and a Hyper Cacher store that month, opens Wednesday in Paris and will last until 'to November 10 to try fourteen accused.
