Posted on 01/13/2015 7:27:55 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Egypt's Islamic authority denounces Charlie Hebdo cover of crying Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) above slogan ‘All is Forgiven.’
A defiant Charlie Hebdo cover of a crying Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) above the slogan "All is Forgiven" was reproduced by media around the world Tuesday but was seen by many Muslims as an unnecessary provocation.
The front page of the French satirical newspaper -- its first since many of its staff were slain in a jihadi attack last week that killed 12 people -- was widely taken up by media in Western nations and in Latin America.
It shows Mohammed (PBUH) on a green background under the ambiguous title "All is forgiven".
But major media in many Arab and some African and Asian countries, as well as Turkey, were did not show it due to Muslim sensitivity to portraying Mohammed.
Egypt's Islamic authority denounced the Charlie Hebdo cover. Violent riots broke out there in early 2006 over Mohammed caricatures first printed by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and later republished by Charlie Hebdo.
"This action is an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims," the authority, Dar al-Ifta, said.
Many devout Muslims view any depiction of their prophet as forbidden and Charlie Hebdo's past caricatures of Mohammed as inflammatory insults.
Because of huge demand for the special "survivors' issue" of Charlie Hebdo, some three million copies are to be printed -- far more than the usual 60,000 before the attack brought the weekly to worldwide prominence -- and it will be translated into 16 languages.
The issue will include cartoons by its murdered cartoonists.
An advance copy contained cartoons mocking the two Islamist gunmen who carried out the attack. One has them arriving in paradise and asking, "Where are the 70 virgins?"
"With the Charlie team, losers," comes the reply.
(Excerpt) Read more at middle-east-online.com ...
A couple of years ago a Cowboy, a Native American, and a muslim were sitting in an airport talking. The Native American is talking and says: Many moons ago when our fathers walked this country the Red man was many and we roamed free, Now we are few and live on reservations.
The Muslim smiles and says Years ago we were trod upon and were few, Now we are many and we are the ones bringing others to their knees.
The Cowboy just smiles and says: You gotta remember we have not even begun to play Cowboys and muslims yet.
A cartoon they don’t like is an “unnecessary provocation” but murdering 12 people is not? These people disgust me.
why do these idiots see Uncle Mo in every cartoon, picture or painting that contains a hairy guy with a turban?
So Muhammed sheds no tears for the non-muslims killed by radicals who “unfairly hijacked” Islam?
So much for it being a religion of peace or the same message as Christianity.
I sure hope Charlie Hebdo makes an on line PDF version available, both in French and in English.
I would love to have copies for posterity.
Holy ***p! 3 million copies??
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