re: #621 Gus

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Prophet Mohammed cartoons: editor of French magazine Charlie Hebdo defends publishing images amid criticism

The front page cartoon had the wheelchair-bound figure saying “You must not mock” under the headline “Untouchable 2”, a reference to a hugely popular French movie about a paralysed rich white man and his black assistant. Inside pages had cartoons whose captions mentioned the Prophet and several caricatures of the Prophet showed him naked.

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At Charlie Hebdo’s offices, where police had been on guard since the early hours of the morning, the editor defended the publication saying he regularly lampooned all forms of extremism.

“One gets the impression it’s okay for Charlie Hebdo to criticise the Catholic extreme right. But one isn’t allowed to poke fun at Muslim fundamentalists. It’s clearly a new rule that we will have to take note of. But we won’t respect it,” the editor, Charb, told reporters who had been waiting outside since before daybreak. Charb does not use a family name.