Posted on 01/04/2016 12:15:30 PM PST by Citizen Zed
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since the jihadist attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bloodied, gun-toting, bearded God figure, under the headline: "One year on: The assassin still at large".
The cover has also been translated as "The assassin is still out there."
One million copies of the special edition will go on sale in France Wednesday, on the eve of the first anniversary of the killing of 12 people at the magazine's Paris offices by brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi.
Eight Charlie Hebdo staff were among the victims of the January 7, 2015 assault which brought millions of people onto France's streets in protest and transformed a fading publication into a global symbol of freedom of expression.
A total of 17 people were killed in three days of attacks that also targeted a Jewish supermarket and police, marking the start of a string of jihadist strikes in France that culminated in November's massacre in Paris.
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Really brave - mocking a generic god.
Could not bring themselves for a cartoon of a mad mo?
Big brass ones, and more than you’ll ever see in the US.
Funny, I recently remember a mad mo drawing contest in which two followers of the "religion of peace and tolerance" with guns where schlonged - IN AMERICA.
What magazine published that, exactly?
You weren’t looking for a magazine.
You were looking for brass balls in America in standing up to islamic nutjobs.
I gave you an example.
“Could not bring themselves for a cartoon of a mad mo?”
They’ve already done that, that is kind of what brought about the entire controversy...
No, I was not. No more bumps for you.
Mohammed is a Mason?
The illuminti eye in a pyramid over the head. There were many conspiracy theories about this attack. And wasn’t the de Rosthchild’s an owner of the paper?
Great post! And wittily said!
Isn’t that a Mason symbol? Is Charlie blaming the Masons, lol?!
These guys suck. I was NEVER charlie. They are hacks, they are not funny, and they are ultimately cowards.
a bloodied, gun-toting, bearded God figure
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Someone is an idiot. This is not a “god” figure (no need to capitalize, as that is reserved for our one true God; the figure symbolizes the Old Year of 2015, which has come to a close and is replaced by the Baby New Year.
Murders by Charlie Masons?
what a bunch of cowardly frogs, they mock every religion except the one that came to get them, the one that needs to be mocked the most.
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