Charlie Hebdo revealed their cover image for this week's issue, printed just days after two gunmen opened fire on the newspaper's Paris office, killing 12 people. Four of the Charlie's cartoonists were killed in the attack.
The cover shows the Prophet Muhammad holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign with the caption, "All is forgiven."
There will be over a million copies printed whereas usually the paper only prints 60,000.
You know because terrorism works so well.
Excellent.
ReplyDeleteA cover? Call that a "cower". Cowering in front of murderers. If this is the new, tame Charlie Hebdo, it ain't going to last very long, unless the Qataris buy it up of course as Houellebecq predicts.
ReplyDeleteCowering? In front of murderers? I have to point out that I believe you have missed the entire point behind the cover. The one that the world seems to have picked up on?
DeleteHow is showing a crying Muhammed cowering? Especially one holding a placard that says "I am Charlie"! How is having their own holy man slapping them with such a message cowering? How is saying "All is forgiven" Cowering? Or is it that you can't see that saying that is the thing that JESUS would do and say.
How is it that you can't see that AGAIN using a caricature of Muhammed (which is what ticked them off in the first place!) is the last thing those fools expected?
The terrorists were wanting to produce rage and fear. Instead they get solidarity and forgiveness. I would think THAT message is far more powerful than attacking those fools.
So how did YOU miss it? All the hatred coming from modern christian pulpits is rotting your brain.
Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is now 3 million copies in 16 languages.
Yes, Rachel Maddow had that info on her program last evening. She is the go-to journalist!
DeleteIt's a brilliant message, and supposedly a shared tenet of many religions. Reminds me of the song "What if god were one of us"?
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