Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Offices of French magazine that published cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammed guarded by riot police

BRAVO Charlie Hedbo.  Stand tall and continue to pull the tiger's tail.  Bravo France for providing protection for Charlie's staff and offices.  There needs to be many more, nay thousands more public displays of mirth and ridicule at the expense of the pedophile Mohammed and his perverted followers.

FROM DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:

Offices of French magazine that published cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammed guarded by riot police as it plans to release new satirical image

Charlie Hedbo's Paris HQ was firebombed last year after it published an issue it claimed had been guest-edited by Mohammed

By Peter Allen

PUBLISHED: 19:23 EST, 18 September 2012 | UPDATED: 05:55 EST, 19 September 2012

Riot police were guarding the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris last night as it prepared to publish cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

Charlie Hedbo’s HQ in the French capital was firebombed last year after it published an issue it claimed had been guest-edited by Mohammed.

Despite the attack, it has now decided to print further drawings, including one of the Prophet in a wheelchair being pushed by a Jewish Rabbi.

It comes three days after unauthorised demonstrations by Muslims threatened to get out of hand on the Champs Elysee.

All were campaigning against what they view as unjustified attacks against their religion by artists and film makers around the world.

A spokesman for the prefecture of Paris police confirmed he had made contact with Charlie-Hebdo, and provided increased patrols around the offices, while Interior Minister Manuel Valls had also been informed about the situation.

‘Security has been stepped up to try and avoid any attacks,’ said a police spokesman.

The magazine, meanwhile, insists it has the right to caricature what it likes, with a spokesman saying they would not be intimidated ‘by the handful of extremists who stir up trouble around the world.’

Molotov cocktails were used to burn down the Charlie Hebdo offices in November last year.

Yet despite the firebomb attack, the magazine went on to print the image of Mohammed in a special four-page supplement.
Satire: The editor of Charlie Hebdo was prosecuted after reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, but was later acquitted

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