© Charlie Hebdo via Twitter
Posted on 01/13/2015 11:23:51 AM PST by Brother Cracker
The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will publish a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed along with the words "All is forgiven" Wednesday on the cover of its first issue since Islamist militants killed 12 people at its central Paris offices.
In a further show of defiance, the fearless magazine announced it would print three million copies – not the usual 60,000 – when it reappears on newsstands on Wednesday.
It will also be translated into six languages including English, Arabic and Turkish, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told a Paris news conference Tuesday.
Daily newspaper Libération, which hosted Charlie Hebdo staff as they prepared the new issue, published the Charlie Hebdo cover online late Monday night. Further details about the magazine’s inside content have emerged since.
The cartoon on the front cover shows a bearded man in a white turban with a tear streaming down his cheek, and holding a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”). Overhead was the phrase: “Tout est Pardonné” (“All is Forgiven”).
Zineb El Rhazoui, a journalist with the newspaper, said the cover meant that the journalists had forgiven the extremists for the killings.
Renald Luzier, the cartoonist who drew the cover image and who is known by his pen name “Luz,” said it represents “just a little guy who’s crying.” Then he added, unapologetically, “Yes, it is Mohammed.”
Defence of secularism
Speaking at Tuesday’s press conference, where he repeatedly broke down in tears, he described weeping after he drew the picture.
“I had this idea in my head but it was not enough to make the cover,” he said.
“All I had was this idea of drawing Mohammed and ‘Je suis Charlie’.... I looked at him, and he was crying. Above him I wrote ‘all is forgiven’ and then I cried."
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© Charlie Hebdo via Twitter
My respect to Charlie Hebdo.
And my disrespect to America, Home of the Unbrave.
well they have a right to say what they want, apparently they are pretty stupid though
They are sort of of like French Bill Maher’s.
Honest leftists.
It has to be said that Charb..... Was trying to get National Front banned.
We stand up for for freedom of speech. Or we should.
That is why I donate and encourage everyone else to donate to keep this website up.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Francais.
Isn’t “All is forgiven” a cave in?
Oui.
Moi aussi!
Thank you, that’s what I thought too. This cartoon is meant to be sympathetic to Islam.
I can deal with an HONEST liberal
They’re just so rare
I’m getting sick and tired of seeing the words “The Prophet Mohammed” in news reports about the Hebdo atrocity. I don’t consider this guy to have been a prophet. When’s the last time any secular media outlet used the phrase “The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”?
While I suppose it’s too much to hope that the phrase “Known pedophile and psychopath Mohammed” would be used, I see no need to call this individual a prophet every time another murder is committed in his name.
“The front cover has already drawn mixed reactions from Muslims in France and overseas.
Egypt’s state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar al-Ifta, quickly denounced it as “an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims”.
Go Charlie!
Yes, it is. Fundamental to a clear understanding of forgiveness is the requirement that the recipient is genuinely penitent and intends not to sin again. Any other sort of "forgiveness" is just a reward for bad behavior.
I had hoped that the "All is Forgiven" title was satirical. The artist has made clear it is not. It should have been omitted from the design, which otherwise would have been quite powerful.
Nothing is forgiven. We can't forgive those who are not sorry for what they've done.
I view it as reflecting the very human need for pardon and reconciliation, and especially so given the account of the cartoonist who drew it.
A deity is knocking on our doors and it is not Allah. This is a quintessentially Christian move.
“Overhead is the phrase “Tout est Pardonne” (All is Forgiven), which French media interpreted as meaning Muhammad is forgiving the cartoonists for lampooning him.”
He depicted a weeping Mohammed. That would seem to set the condition you state.
Well, they really ought to have asked the fellow who drew the cartoon before sticking their foot into it.
Any figurative drawing is forbidden in Islam, and certainly any drawing of Mohammed, whether insulting or not, is considered blasphemy.
Nonetheless, this was Charlie Hebdo’s suck-up to Islam, even though the Muslims were too dumb to understand it. The tearful Mohammed saying (in French, obviously) “All is forgiven,” was nothing but an attempt to say “Islam is the religion of peace” in French.
Good. Keep annoying the headchoppers. Better yet, kick them out of France and send them back to their hell holes.
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