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Defiant Charlie Hebdo to print 3M copies of latest edition with Muhammad on cover
FOXNEWS/AP ^ | Jan. 13, 2015 | FOXNEWS

Posted on 01/13/2015 7:17:14 AM PST by PROCON

Muhammad will be back on the cover of the next edition of Charlie Hebdo, along with a message of forgiveness from surviving staffers at the French satirical magazine where 12 people were killed last week by a pair of Islamist brothers angered over the publication's penchant for showing images of the prophet.

The decimated, but uncowed magazine upped its usual print run of 60,000 copies to 3 million for the magazine, due out Wednesday but released to the French newspaper Liberation. Fierce bidding on eBay had editions commanding as much as $500 following the outpouring of support for Charlie Hebdo, whose four top cartoonists were among the dozen killed. Editor-in-chief Gérard Biard said in a Tuesday radio interview the decision to run a cartoon if Muhammad holding a a “Je Suis Charlie” sign with the caption "Tout est pardonne," or "All is forgiven," and said the message was not that Muhammad was offering forgiveness, as some initially assumed.

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KEYWORDS: charliehebdo; charliehebdocover; france; islamofascism
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To: Star Traveler

There’s lots of nice Muslims... it’s the ‘religion’ that’s evil...


21 posted on 01/15/2015 9:28:24 AM PST by GOPJ (NYT "Free Speech" - ISIS can post severed heads to twitter but we can't post Mohammed cartoons.)
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To: GOPJ

Being a “nice Muslim” won’t keep Jesus from killing them all, though!


22 posted on 01/15/2015 9:35:43 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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