PARIS, KOMPAS.com – Although they are always targeted, threatened and bombed repeatedly, they have even been attacked and killed dozens of employees, satirical media France, Charlie Hebdo will never stop making fun of Islamic extremism.
Many media critics around the world say Charlie Hebdo’s editorial staff has actually attacked Islam itself; People who work for Charlie Hebdo say they criticize intolerance, oppression and the political form of Islam that threatens democracy.
However, with freedom of expression as a creed, these regular publications have pushed the boundaries of French hate speech laws with often sexually explicit caricatures offensive to nearly everyone.
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The media’s decision to publish new cartoons this week insulting their opponents from the Islamic world is the backdrop for the recent attacks in France last Thursday, in which 3 people were brutally killed in a church.
Charlie Hebdo has criticized the satire of the passing of children of migrants, victims of the coronavirus, dying drug addicts, world leaders, neo-Nazis, popes, bishops, Jewish leaders, religious, political and other entertainment figures.
This week’s edition, they feature a cartoon of a teacher’s funeral beheaded, showing the officer carrying two coffins, one for the body and the other for the head.
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Since the trial opened last month over a 2015 attack that killed 12 Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the satirical media has spent almost half of its weekly envelope mocking Islamic extremism.
“We need strong action to stop Islamism but also to condemn the slightest, intolerant or hateful words against French people from an immigrant background.
Because France is not divided between Muslims and non-Muslims, between believers and non-believers, between people with French roots and French people from immigrant backgrounds, “Charlie Hebdo editor Riss wrote in an editorial this week. Associated Press (AP).
“No, France is divided between democrats and anti-democrats.”
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The media circulation is small and many French people themselves say the place is gross or extreme but defend their right to exist.
Charlie Hebdo media angered Muslims after reprinting a caricature of the great Prophet of Muslims, Muhammad Saw which was originally published in a Danish magazine in 2005.
The cartoons are seen as an insult to Islam and many Muslims around the world feel deeply hurt but strongly condemn the violence that has come in response to the cartoon’s publication.
In 2011 Charlie Hebdo’s office was bombed after publishing a ‘joke’ issue ‘inviting’ the Prophet to be guest editor with a caricature on the cover of the magazine.
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A year later, the media published even more images of the Prophet amid a frenzy over anti-Muslim films.
The cartoons depict the Prophet naked and in degrading poses.
The French government itself still defends freedom of speech even when admonishing Charlie Hebdo for fanning tensions.
In January 2015, two French-born Al Qaeda extremists angered by the caricature stormed the newsroom and killed 12 people, including the editor-in-chief and several other cartoonists.
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Charlie Hebdo hasn’t backed down yet. On the day the trials of the 2015 attacks opened, the satirical media reprinted the original caricature of the prophet.
A few weeks later, a young Pakistani boy stabbed two people outside Charlie Hebdo’s office, over a republished cartoon.
On October 16, 2020, a Chechen migrant beheaded a teacher outside Paris who had displayed a caricature of the Prophet in his classroom, during a debate class on freedom of expression.
In response, French President Emmanuel Macron has firmly defended Charlie Hebdo’s freedom to caricature and speak out against Islamism, drawing protests and calls for boycotts across the Muslim world, as well as calls for violence against France from some extremist voices.
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