Charlie Hebdo bounces back with another Prophet caricature
14 Jan 2015
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which bore the brunt of the worst terrorist attack that the country has seen, has come back with another depiction of Prophet Mohammed, where he holds a placard saying 'I am Charlie'.
In the publication out today, the weekly has put a cartoon of a weeping Prophet Mohammad in what it called the 'survivors' issue'. A caption touchingly reads, 'All is forgiven'.
The issue will be the first since two Islamist gunmen stormed Charlie Hebdo's Paris office on 7 January and massacred 12 people, saying they were taking revenge for previous publications of Mohammad cartoons (See: France in mourning amid manhunt for 'Hebdo' killer brothers).
The magazine had announced on Tuesday that it would print three million copies, far more than its usual 60,000.
In an instance of freedom of expression, the unapologetically right-wing and Muslim-bashing magazine skewered other religions as well, and bragged that Sunday's turnout of a million people at a march in Paris to condemn terrorism was larger ''than for Mass''.
''For the past week, Charlie, an atheist newspaper, has achieved more miracles than all the saints and prophets combined,'' it said in the edition's lead editorial. ''The one we are most proud of is that you have in your hands the newspaper that we always made.''
