Warning: This post contains an image that some may find offensive.
Charlie Hebdo has unveiled its first cover since the terror attack on its offices on Wednesday last week — and it features an image of Prophet Mohammed crying and holding a sign that reads “I am Charlie” in French.
The headline splashed across the page of the bright green cover reads “Toute est pardonne” (“All is forgiven”).
The attack on the offices of the satirical magazine left 12 people dead, including eight editorial staffers and two other members of staff.
Two policemen were also killed in the attack, which was perpetrated by three gunmen.
The surviving members of the magazine prepared the edition in the offices of French newspaper Liberation. It will be on sale this Wednesday, January 14, and this week’s edition will be offered in 16 languages.
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What do you think of the cover?
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You do of course realise that you may well have offended some extremist by showing the Charlie Hebdo cover? Pray that no one comes looking for the MM editor responsible, if you know what I mean.
Everyone is showing them now, if you have been watching the news. No doubt the extremists will be angry, but if all the media is united and shows them, which is what has happened then it means the extremists will have to go after everyone in the western world. The irony is not showing these images doesn't make you any safer, I'm pretty sure that none of the Lindt hostages were disseminating images of Mohammed, same with 9/11 victims, or the Spanish and london terrorist victims etc, so not showing these images doesn't make any of us any safer.
I find a lot of Mamamia content offensive, and yet those articles are not preceded by a warning. Why is this subject different?