Firebombed French Newspaper to Continue Printing Controversial Muhammad Cartoon
- Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:11pm by
Billy Hallowell
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PARIS (The Blaze/AP) — The satirical French newspaper whose offices were firebombed this week fought back Friday against efforts to interrupt its operations, starting a blog and publishing more copies of a controversial edition.
The controversial cartoon that led to the firebombing
Charlie Hebdo’s website has been down since it released a special edition Wednesday that was “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad and took aim at radical Islam. Editors of the weekly said they also lost access to their Facebook page for more than 24 hours.
No one was injured in the attack and the protests so far have been limited to the Web, but there are concerns that the spoof could trigger a wave of violent demonstrations. The paper’s front page depicted the prophet; such images are generally prohibited by Islam for fear they could lead to idolatry.
Under the headline, “The Internet’s Homeless,” the editors of Charlie Hebdo described in their first post Thursday how they will continue to publish.
The paper’s offices were destroyed just hours before the edition hit the newsstands. Employees are working on next week’s print edition from the offices of the French daily Liberation.
The logo on the newspaper's new blog
On Friday, the paper was again available at newsstands after having sold out Wednesday.
Charlie Hebdo’s Internet presence has also been the victim of hackers. Its website is still down, and the editors said on their blog that for more than a day they weren’t able to access their Facebook page, where thousands of users posted angry comments and apparently “reported” the page as offensive.
By Friday evening, they were able to get into the account for their official page once again. Access to another page remained blocked, however.
Users had always been able to visit the pages, even though the editors couldn’t update them.
It wasn’t clear why the editors were denied access. Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment. RPI reported that the editors are less than content with Facebook’s handling of the situation. Here‘s a rundown of what’s going on:
Charlie Hebdo’s Facebook page has been swamped with 13,000 messages, many of them threats and insults, since the publication of this week’s issue retitled Charia Hebdo and featuring a cartoon of Mohammed on its front cover.
But its moderator cannot remove them, the blog says, “under the pretext – surprise! surprise! – that Charlie Hebdo is not a ‘real’ person” and because it breaches a ban on “publications featuring nudity or other sexually suggestive content”, says the satirical paper’s blog, launched on Thursday to show that it is “reborn from the ashes”.
Facebook rules do include that ban as well as one on “hate speech, credible threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group”, which critics who accuse the paper of Islamophobia may argue justifies the move.
Reporters Without Borders called on Facebook to “renounce censorship” and warned it not to shut down the pages.
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Comments (102)
grickm
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:28pmWe should salute those French editors who bravely went ahead with their project despite the repercussions they must have known would happen. Muslim fanatics must be hounded out of civilized society. Projects like this expose them.
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:52pmIs that really a French paper? lol
Good job guys!
Report Post »Bekrhed
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:07pmHaha
This publication is LEFT-WING.
You guys are championing/defending a magazine that lampoons all authoritarian dogma.
They make fun of all the major religions and rightwing politics.
Haha
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:06pm@ Perckerhead
Yes, we champion it. It is called FREEDOM OF PRESS. Just as we champion your ability to speak as we deride your lack of intelligence in speaking.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:16amSo do we let the Lovers or the Haters define what “hate speech” is?
I say the French are the Lovers and the firebombing Muslims are the Haters.
The French police just cleared out “occupy”-type protesters and carted off their tents. No hesitation there.
Also, they recently passed a law which disallows people to hide their identities with face coverings–religious or otherwise.
Sarkozy is busy trying to pull France out of the Socialist swamp before it’s too late. He cozied up to Obama at the G20 because he is up for re-election and he knows Obama is popular with the French leftist media. In reality, he is way to the right of Obama.
Report Post »Callisto
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 10:37amAgree – if the French are starting to stand up for themselves then I salute them.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:13pmHow much you wanna bet France shuts ‘em down? Wait and see.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:33pmFINALLY! Some one with some balls!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:44amFrench media is largely left, but Sarkozy and his administration is definitely right. I would be very surprised if they shut them down.
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 1:36pm@ LUKERW- Get a clue before you open your mouth and let the people now how stupid you are. You can not exercise your right to stop people from exercising theirs. If you do that in this country we take away some of your rights by locking you up.
Report Post »eillem123
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:02pmIslam is a death cult which should be wiped out. I don’t mean kill all muslims, I mean simply that every one of their customs (head rags, praying with their butts in the air 5 times a day, etc.) and especially anything remotely like shariah law should NOT be given ANY consideration when it comes to them being in America and AMERICAN law. They should be searched along with every other passenger, they should NOT be allowed to cover their faces when in public, they should not be paid when they pray to mecca on their employer’s time, and they should be FIRED if after taking a new job, they suddenly “need” to go on a religious pilgrimage.
Report Post »It is INSANE what is allowed to happen in this nation concerning islam. WAKE UP or it’ll be YOUR head and face wrapped up. or cut off!
RightPolitically
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:22pmPC is a killer. You have it RIGHT!
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:31pmhttp://www.islam-watch.org/IW/aboutus.htm
Very informative web site about Islam, the religion of Violence and Hatred!
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 1:24amThe right of an individual to freely express themselves is a right guaranteed and protected by the constitution. If the government takes away their right to cover their faces, what right of yours will the government take away because it doesn’t like that right. Like maybe your second amendment right, or your due process right, or your right to have a judge sign a search warrant, not a law enforcement agency head.
Think about that before you trample someone else’s right.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 1:48am@SURHANSURHAN
Report Post »In America… RIGHTS come from GOD, which no one can revoke. The Rights in the Amendments of the Constitution are Prohibitions against any Government. Guns protect these Rights… as long as the people are Brave enough to use them. Now, if you want to Cover your Face and Carry a Gun… you have that “right”… but, on the other hand, someone with a Gun just might shoot you.
XdemXrepub
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:36amIt is the religion of peace…and if you say otherwise you will beheaded or blown up
Report Post »awiderview
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:53pmWould you support them if they offered a cartoon desecrating Jesus Christ?
Report Post »oeaoho
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:02pmMaby not, but I would not firebomb them either.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:26pmOEAOHO has your answer. And that is the difference between civilized religious believers and the HEAD-CUTTERS whom you sympathize with!
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:30pmFreedom of Speech is Great, long as your willing to pay the price.
Report Post »TXMamaGrizzley
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:46pmPeople desecrate Jesus and Mary all the time and they call it art. The difference is we don’t go ballistic and chop peoples head off or blow things up. The are religions of peace and religions of blow you to “peices”
Report Post »TXMamaGrizzley
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:48pmok…I should have checked my spelling first :)
Report Post »4loveUSA
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:02pmwe have had all kinds of rooten pictures ,cartoons newspaper articals bad mouthing Judea-Christian beleifs-no one has fire bombed them-get over yourself and wake up-
Report Post »palerider54
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 12:56amMaybe we should fight fire with fire. The next time a media outlet prints a story that ridicules or degrades Christianity, maybe we should bomb them like the muslims do. (I know, I know) but seriously is that what it will take for them to start cracking down on Islam?
Report Post »ROE-SMELLEN
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:52pmI am not to be talking french.
Report Post »What is dear leader Mohamaneggs saying?
Is he saying “Roe, you were lovely when you
were seven. Now put on your bhurka”?
or maybe “blow yourself. Up.”
ElaineA
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:49pmI can’t believe I am saying this about the French but they clearly have more guts than our own
Report Post »Air Force Academy if you consider the story about the Academy back tracking on Operation Christmas Child. Read the story here on the Blaze then call Lt. Colonel Bryan on his direct line and
tell him how his Political correctness infuriates you. 1-719-333-1707
Reload
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:26pm“I can’t believe I am saying this about the French but they clearly have more guts than our own”
I know right.
Wait a minute, is that the four horsemen of the apocalypse cresting the hill?
Report Post »OhioRifleman
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:09pmAye, that would be Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and Bawneyyy Fwwank. The (new and disimproved) four horsemen.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:36pmReload
You must have missed the Fourth Horseman in Egypt during the victorious “Arab Spring”
Here‘s one of the video’s. Appears at 1.20 in.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UKz3GVrHI8
lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 1:34amIn Europe, they say… Napoleon wiped out the Brave Frenchmen when he used them for canonfodder in his Wars! I’ll stick with that… until the French, not just a publisher, do something Brave!
Report Post »Eraldo NY Tea Party
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:49pmI live in NYC and the muslens are in your face, impossing.
I never eat halal food (street vendors) stop to buy pretzels on the street because all of then are running by musleens.
We need to stop all constructions of mosqees or allow more mosleens to come to our country.
Illegal immigration is about the moslens now!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:47pmWho said the French didn’t have any balls?
Report Post »ProudTeaPartyMember
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:45pmYes, Islam really is “The religion of peace”. And if you don’t agree, they’ll kill you or destroy your property. Lock and load people, war is coming.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:57pmWolverine……………..
Report Post »Wringeaux
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 6:13pmIslam’s Latest Contributions to Peace
Weekly Jihad Report
Oct. 22 – Oct. 28
Jihad Attacks: 46
Allah Akbars: 3
Dead Bodies: 135
Critically Injured: 318
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:42pmWINNING through INTIMIDATION.. hmm sounds like a FAMILIAR tactic, Barry?
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:06pmSo true!!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:37pm“there are concerns that the spoof could trigger a wave of violent demonstrations.”
So I guess we should all bow down and kiss their arses. Make fun of a Christian and they smile and wave. Make fun of a Muslim and they lop off your head. How peaceful.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:45pmIt is sad it takes the french to stand up to Islam…How low has America sunk….
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:11pm“So I guess we should all bow down and kiss their arses.”
Report Post »Seems like that is what it may come to. If the reaction to the Occupy (fill in City) protesters is any indication of how we need to curb our speech or satire when it refers to Muslims, better grab your ankles and pucker up.
CatB
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:14pmThey will blow you up if given the chance no matter what .. time to stop giving into terrorists and fight back!
Report Post »Islamislame
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:34pmOur muslim fri…uh, enemies, need to learn to laugh a little. This is funny stuff!
Report Post »SurhanSurhan
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 1:40pmSo was the bombing, why aren’t you laughing at that?
Report Post »six6six
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:33pmI guess we can go back to calling them French Fries now. What a bunch of fickle dopes.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:37pmAt the least they can claim to have genuine flaming hot editorials and know their political cartoons are gathering attention.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:33pmWay to go Frenchy, you deserve a medal, don’t give into these “things” there pure evil.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:29pmCharlie Hebdo,ROCKS
Report Post »Outdoorguyman
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:28pmMay Allah fill your mouth with camel dung
Report Post »Dilldozzer
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:28pmWay to go! Everyone should print images of the prophet. Let the muslims rise in anger and expose themselves for who and what they are. It’s better than having them hide in shadows and strike at our turned backs! Make them stand toe to toe with us…they’ll lose!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:04pmSupposedly..only a Catholic Church can remain in Arab Countries without fear of being attacked because that was the deal made during the Crusades between Islamic leaders and St Francis of Sissisi…Obama attended not only a strict madrassa of his choosing in Indonesia…but also the Catholic School St Francis of Sissisi.. Islam has roots with the Catholic Church.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:26pmGood for them!!! Freedom of speech and press has to be protected. I hate what so called “artists” do to Jesus, the cross and the Virgin Mary, I think its appalling but I would’nt bring harm to them…
If muslims want to be a part of the rest of the world and want to come out from the Middle East, and they want to live, work and be involved in Western countries, then they need to learn to accept the culture and its goods and bads…
They really can’t argue or complain, I don’t see them allowing Churches and Synagogues in Saudi Arabia, so…..
Report Post »geomann
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:38pmThese Islamist extremests do not want to be part of western culture, they want to spread oppresion to the west.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:25pmHere’s exactly what our published press should do in America. On the same day, run the same cartoon. That’s how you respond to these muslim savages.
Report Post »Armed
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:24pmSince when do the French show any nads? This is amazing. I agree, I wish it was printed in the U.S. (in English)
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:22pmThey should print an English version.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:28pmabsolutely
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:31pmi’m french and never thought i would say this, viva la FRANCE
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:40pmI would love for them to provide an english version … … viva la THESE GUYS!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:25pmMaybe the NY Times will do an English version…NAAAAAA !!!
Report Post »Spineless bastar** s….
mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:21pmIt is fun to offend muslims.
Their phony prophet and alien god make for great comedic fodder.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:19pmThumbs up Charia Hebdo, here’s to hoping the liberal outlets in the states print this story and show it on TV!
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:16pmGood for the French. Glad to see they don’t cave to Islamists! Keep it up!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:19pmI think they have just about HAD it after all the Muslims started shutring down their streets to PRAY! You should check it out. They have been INTIMIDATING the French for quite a while now….ABOUT time they said ENOUGH!
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:15pmAhhh, the religion of peace and mutual respect.
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