Posted on 01/12/2015 7:05:20 PM PST by Beave Meister
Paris (AFP) - This week's three million copies of Charlie Hebdo, the first post-attack issue of the French satirical weekly, will defiantly feature caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, its lawyer said Monday.
The special issue, to come out on Wednesday, will also be offered "in 16 languages" for readers around the world, one of its columnists, Patrick Pelloux, said.
Charlie Hebdo's lawyer, Richard Malka, told French radio the upcoming publication will "obviously" lampoon Mohammed -- among other figures -- to show staff will "cede nothing" to extremists seeking to silence them.
The two gunmen who slaughtered 12 people in their attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices last Wednesday, including five of its top cartoonists and three other staff members, claimed as they left the scene that they had "avenged the Prophet Mohammed".
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The U.S. media also has not shown the cartoons as much as they should have ( but a billion trillion times the U.S media showed that football player hitting his wife in the elevator video) .
Obama and the U.S. media are to the left of the French media. And the U.S. media and Obama are the worst enemies of freedom and of America
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