Two days ago, Jihadist gunmen stormed the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo targeting the cartoonists whose drawings they found objectionable, butchering 12 people in all. Cartoonists from all over the world responded with cartoons, the Eiffel Tower was dimmed in mourning and crowds gathered holding up placards saying, “Je Suis Charlie,” roughly translated as, “the hell with you.”
Charlie Hebdo (Charlie for Charlie Brown and Hebdo for “weekly”) published outrageous cartoons such as the following:
A comment on Pope Benedict’s 2010 approval of condoms. He holds a condom aloft saying, “This is my body,” a reference to the Mass.
“Charia” [Sharia] Hebdo, a special issue “guest edited” by the Prophet. He says, “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing.” The magazine’s office was firebombed the next day.
Here are some cartoonists’ reactions to the latest massacre:
Dave Pope @davpope
Matt Davies Newsday; and Matt of the Telegraph:
Thanks for this post with the cartoons which aren’t being shown enough, or at all, in most of the mainstream media.
Too sad for my usual snarky comment.