Offices of French Satirical Magazine Firebombed After it Announces Muhammad as ‘Editor-in-Chief’
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The offices of a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were firebombed yesterday. The magazine also had its website hacked with a threatening message splashed across its homepage.
What did the magazine editors do to earn a Molotov cocktail through their office windows and threatening messages via their webpage, Facebook and Twitter?
It appears the attack was the result of the editors announcing that they were going to print a special edition of the magazine with Muhammad as the guest editor-in-chief (in honor of the Arab Spring).
“To fittingly celebrate the victory of the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia … Charlie Hebdo has asked Muhammad to be the special editor-in-chief of its next issue,” the magazine announced earlier according BBC.
“The prophet of Islam didn’t have to be asked twice and we thank him for it,” the statement added.
And they weren‘t just going to use Muhammad’s name; they were planning for all out satire.
They announced that they would change the name for the special edition from Charlie Hebdo to Charia [Sharia] Hebdo, the magazine would feature a column by the guest editor entitled “Halal Aperitif,” and they were going to include a women’s supplement called “Madam Sharia.”
The cover of the issue was even going to feature a picture of Muhammad with a caption bubble around his head saying, “100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter.”
“We don’t feel like causing further provocation. We simply feel like doing our job as usual. The only difference this week is that Muhammad is on the cover and it’s pretty rare to put him on the cover,” said Charb, the magazine’s real editor-in chief.
Apparently, some people didn’t think it was funny.
“Yesterday, around 1am, the magazine’s Paris offices were attacked with a Molotov cocktail. While the fire was put out quickly, the editor-in-chief of the paper, known as ‘Charb’, has said that the magazine cannot possibly put out a paper this week due to the damage,” writes Business Insider.
“Everything was destroyed,” Patrick Pelloux, a witness at the scene, told AFP.
The magazine’s website was also hacked and this message was left for the staff: “You keep abusing Islam’s almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. Be God’s curse upon you!”
That wasn’t the only threatening message they received.
“On Twitter, on Facebook, we received several letters of protest, threats, insults,” which had been forwarded to the police, said Charb.
Although the severity of the attack is not that surprising (recall the violence that broke out after the publication of the Danish cartoons), it‘s the swiftness of action that’s truly remarkable.
The BBC only announced yesterday (Nov. 1) that Charlie Hebdo would be cracking wise about Muhammad and sharia law. It was at about 1 AM the next morning when the firebombing took place. They didn‘t waste any time making sure the magazine wouldn’t release the Muhammad issue.
The editors of Charlie Hebdo, no matter how non-provocative they claim they were trying to be, must have known something like this was going to happen.
(h/t Business Insider)




















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Comments (148)
BO_Bill
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:55pmAssalamu alaikum;
These decadent rodent French Infidels know better. The fire that reigns down upon their heads is the due consequence of their poor behavior. Lie with the goats Infidel, you can hide behind rocks but the moon-god seeyth all. Peace be with you. Me, I’m off to pick up my welfare check. Multiculturalism would rock if the Prophet Mohammed (PBUM) allowed to us the use of musical instruments. He being most magnificent, most merciful. Pardon me, I just crapped my pants.
and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:00pmThe “religion of peace” turns the other cheek again. Peace be on you.
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:09pmMohamed is not an ‘Editor-in-Chief’ – he is the founder and president of the ‘Child Molesters Association’.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:22pm@Bo_Bill, oh my Allah, that’s hysterical!!!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:57pmaahhh…that religion of peace of tolerance again.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:12pmFrance – a beautiful country as I recall. Too bad the Muslims will utterly gut it over the next 40 years, thanks to unchecked immigration and multiculturalism and “tolerance”.
Adieu France ! Je me souviendrai Paris avec des souvenirs heureuses !
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:32pmDoes it mean anything to Christians that Christians think the Old Testament calls for violence or that somehow it approves of it, and yet somehow Christians are so lukewarm that they are getting their butts kicked both politically, financially, and maybe eventually militarily by Muslims and Communists?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:35pmDoes it mean anything to Christians that Jesus said he wasn’t changing the scriptures, but that he was furthering the understanding? You see, it’s because 99.9 percent of Christians are lukewarm, so you are getting your butt kicked and Jesus is spitting you out, because God is not protecting you.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:37pmTheir headline tomorrow should be Allahu Ackbar.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:40pmIt’s because Christians are on the fence, all confused about their own religion. And they will not embrace one way or the other. When the only way you should be interpreting the Old Testament is the way Jesus interpreted the Old Testament and that is to understand the terminology in the Old Testament as actually being peaceful and meaning intelligent thought definitions of the terms such as “Stone.”
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:42pmChristians think if they don’t strongly believe one way or the other that they will remain guiltless, and it simply isn’t so. Some may remain guiltless, but also certainly you will also be made to be part of Islam at some point.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:43pm… of the thousands of reasons that muslims cannot be trusted, we add another. Call your representatives and tell them that we must STOP the immigration of muslims into our country! They cannot be trusted!! They have an agenda and it’s to force America and the world into ISLAM!! ISLAM is the enemy of freedom, just like communism! Both are nearly one and the same!
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:46pm@ Bo_Bill As-Salamu Alaykum = I Just Want some Bacon
Report Post »no_more_harkin
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:49pmWow Eliasim – you must be fresh off the brainwashing at Al Jazeera.
Report Post »I don’t know where you see Christians getting their butt kicked, but I no Muslim military/coutry/or religious faction stands a chance of continuing their stoning of women, hanging of gays or wiping out of any religion when faced with 20th century law.
Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:55pmTrying to remain guiltless by sitting on the fence only leads to losing everything.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:59pmIs there a subscription?
Report Post »Sheepdog69
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:00pmScrew Allah! Muhammed is a punk. Bring it on! Winner takes all!
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:02pmFunny…that’s exactly how I thought Muhammed would look like..
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:20pmHow they do hate music and anyone with a musical bone.One of their tortures involves stabbing fragments of glass and rock around and under the fingernails then gluing it down.They were so hoping that the individuals would think that old ww2 enemies had done it by lying in wait all these years.[Japanese].RIGHT/sarc.Must have thought the person was just that stupid.They had shoveled that crap so long that they believed it.Stupid is as stupid does.
Report Post »Why do think that gibson guitar is having problems?A fine muslim with access to government agencies to do their bidding,going after the oldest and wealthiest guitar maker around.They get to shut them down take all their money and laugh about it.Doing that goat humpers work of stopping all music and musicians.
How’d the torture work for them?Not to well the individual still plays and types much to their everloven horror.
Will4Freedom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:54pmI don’t endorse the mocking of ANY religion. I certainly don’t endorse violence in response to mocking.
If their deity is truly all powerful, and his/her feelings are hurt by this silliness, he/she will surely deal with the matter… sooner or later.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:58pmIndeed, all that hatered and violence begets in turn is more violence as those who chose to indulge in such have, in their minds, the “excuse needed” for the justification of their actions as “retaliation” for the “public good.”
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:12pmReligion and especially Islam needs to be treated with ridicule and contempt. For too long the fundamentals of benighted Bronze Age superstitions have been stultifying the young and old with vague stories and institutional intolerance. Modern man must free himself from mean spirited, vengeful gods and their be rid of their nasty, brutish representatives on Earth. Religious Muslims are more childlike in their sensibilities and are therefore more violent and more barbaric than many religions, but not by much.
Report Post »Will4Freedom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:21pmMIYEGOMBO BAYARTSOGT,
That’s the great thing about the United States. You are free to believe in nothing. And I would stand with you in rebuking a “believer” if they ever try to shove religion down your throat. But I will also stand with “believers” if YOU try to shove atheism down their throat.
We have freedom of religion or no religion. Isn’t America great?
Report Post »Raven249
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:14amlol Not to be mocking of their religion, but if their deity is all-powerful, why the hell would they care what a bunch of infidels think? If their feelings can be so easily upset, then I should think that they ain’t so all-powerful. Following that same logic, I don’t get why these Muslims are getting so bent out of shape, either. Surely Allah can handle himself? Right?
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:53pmCan’t you just voice your disagreement? What’s with all this firebombing crap?
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:52pmWhat we need is a “Muslim watch” type of network where every single Muslim in the USA is watched by non-Muslims.
Report Post »Every step they walk should be photographed and every single word they utter should be recorded. Every Muslim in the USA should be under surveillance.
Will4Freedom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:02pmReally? Is that what the founders had in mind when they demanded “due process”?
There ARE American citizens who are Muslims. Would you take away their rights and privacy because they belong to a different religion? We used to have a concept called “innocent until proven guilty”. Has that changed?
If there is reason to suspect a person.. any person… provide the proof to a judge and get a warrant.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:43pm@will4freedom
Report Post »Yes some things have changed.First off muslim isn’t truly a religion.Its a political party masquerading as a religion.They come, they see ,they try and conquer.What about this ,do any of you, not understand?
Oh to the original poster we do have watchs of sorts.Creeping sharia.com Shariah Finance.com.There are others out there.
Will4Freedom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:09pmOBJECTIVETRUTH
We are still a Republic, with the Constitution and rule of law to protect the minority against the whims of the majority.
All Americans have equal rights under the law. No single group should be attacked unjustly. Not Blacks, Whites, Christians or Muslims. No one.
If an individual or group of individuals arouses suspicions, it is the duty of law enforcement to present evidence to a judge and proceed within the limits of the law to address the issue.
If we throw all that out the window because we are “afraid” of Muslims, who is next? Christians? Jews? (been done) Tea Party members?
Remember, once you open the door, you can’t predict who will enter. Your party may not always be in power. The next guy to use this precedence may not like the group YOU belong to.
We have laws to protect us all. Its best for all if we follow them.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:34pmWILL4FREEDOM
Report Post »Thanks for the lesson on the constitution that I didn’t need.This isn’t about a group mentalitity or a minority.This is about people who want us dead.It isn’t about fear.Its about common sense and self defense.Are you caring the scars on you from what they have done?If not then shut your mouth to me
I am and nothing you say will ever change my mind about these inhumane perverts.Just follow the law everything will be ok.No you freaking moron it won’t.They abuse our laws to sequester themselves to commit their atrocities.Then laugh saying prove it.After they have layered lies throughout multiple government agencies.Been doing so for at least 40 to 50 years.
Will4Freedom
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:02pmI did not attack you or call you names. I’m trying to have a civil conversation with you. Because you have a personal agenda, or a group of people threaten us, you are willing to chuck our laws to the curb so you can get revenge or pre-emptive strikes, or feel SAFE, or whatever it is you’re after.
Everyone will be less free if we disregard our “due process” laws and start rounding up Muslims, or any other group, in the name of “safety”. That is dangerous, whether you see it or not.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:11pmWill4Freedom, you are absolutely correct and sound like a fine example of an American Patriot who believes in the Constitution. I tip my hat to you.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:12pmI believe some people lose all objectivity when it comes to “Christian soldiers marching on to war”
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:01pmKnight Templar, how fitting a title. Do you have any idea the resources necessary to implement a plan like that? Second, do you really think any of the people that the regime would put in there would focus on muslims? No they would be all bent out of shape about the tea party. Personally, I would rather not give them any more rope to hang me with.
Report Post »workinftw
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:19pmCountless Muslim leaders have called for and facilitated violence and murder to me and my religion. They have called for your death as well if you are a non-muslim. IMO this is enough for a warrant to watch anyone who follows the teachings of Islam. Open your eyes. Free speach is one thing, threats are totally different.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:51pmHas anyone seen my goat?
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:11pmachmed borrowed it for the evening……he will return it after it goes through habib’s goat wash! Just wating for the dracma machine to give him the proper amount of sheckles….
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:49pmYou can do anything in film, pictures, and audio these days. Why not launch an attack on them .. for example .. publish a video of a secret meeting of Achmadinnerjacket and Netanyahu describing how thay both agree that MooHammeed is a farse and they are making so much money on idea of this clown. Stuff like that .. we could turn those morons on themselves. LOL
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:20pmThere is a web site call Bad Lip Reading.com, they could put something together that would have the muslims tight jawed.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:48pmI just want to know, when there are no more Christians in the world, who is going to keep Christianity alive? I guess it’s a good thing Josephs boughs go over walls and into wells.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:42pmBetter yet, if there are no Christians alive, who will speak for the down trodden and the weaker amongst us? Who will fight for liberty and justice for ALL? Who will be the example of turning the other cheek? But see, this is a trick question because when there are no longer any Christians here, that means God has stated His time has come and this world will be not.
Report Post »Brents Torts
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:45pmEvil can’t stand to be made fun of. Run the issue anyway. Don’t back down from these thugs.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:11pmAmen
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:45pmThis is why the liberal left and aethists here only take shots are Christians, at least the French have the stones to stand up to the muslims.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:44pmIslam, the greatest evil the world has ever known.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:50pmMan burns bible at the Vatican – Christians shrug it off and continue praying. French mag posts cartoon – Baboons go crazy burning things and demanding heads! I’ll never understand those cavemen!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:57pmOh I don’t know about that, because I think it is the misinterpretation of the Koran that leads radical Muslims to do the things they do. Case in point, in the Bible when it says to stone someone, people think it means to actually throw rocks at people, when it actually means to shut them down – to harden their heart (to out-do them with God’s armor, kind of the way little David stoned Goliath, and Davids reasoning sunk into Goliath’s forehead). And to kill someone in the Bible means to kill their belief or to kill what motivates them. Case in point, the woman that Peter struck dead, he didn’t actually kill her, but that he struck her soul dead whereby she would never live again in a second life.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:06pmCome now, do you really think that a Young David actually beat down a Giant in literal battle in every meaning of the word “Battle”, and then he drew the giants sword to behead him with his own sword? Of course not, but that David out-witted the Giant Goliath. And David beheaded Goliath with the Giant’s own words. That’s why Jesus speaks of the sword of his mouth.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:09pmOf course there is more money to be made for the wimp rulers in the cities who are not the ones who actually go out to battle.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:11pmDoes anyone actually believe that God is going to provide men with the equipment to actually slaughter other men?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:53pm@Eliasim……….Please reconsider where you attend your meetings and re-read the Old Testement.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:23pmMOMRULES,
Report Post »Oh I have read it and a little more than that. But more importantly when people read the Bible they hear it how their wicked heart wants to hear it. So I suppose when Jesus said that he isn’t changing the scripture, but that he was furthering the understanding of it, that you don‘t believe Jesus’ words? I suppose you think their is no meaning to it when Jesus said he will come at people with the sword of his mouth? And if so, if you think the scriptures mean violence, then you are just as evil as the Muslims you call evil.
Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:28pmThat’s another thing I do not like about the Catholic Church. They don’t say the Bible calls for violence, but that they imply it.
Report Post »JustMeInAZ
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:58pmEliasim, you may have read the Bible, but your posts show you just didn’t understand it. David was very small to Goliath. There was no way he could kill him all by himself. David knew that. That’s why he put all his trust in the Lord God and was able to actually kill the giant with a asingle stone to the head. It was all God, David was just the instrument. It teaches us that there are big things that stand in our way, but when we put our trust in God alone, we can get through whatever it is.
Report Post »KingDawg
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:44pmislam is evil
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:43pmHahaha.. silly muhammad tricks are for kids. Grow up you whiny babies, it is so infuriating to think that this is caused because these people take their deity way to seriously. Who want’s to join this insane religion? I mean, who in their right mind sits there and says, I really want to be a follower of such a violent barbaric “I live in the times where we don’t believe women are people, I ride donkeys as a mode of transportation, and sometimes mistake them for my 4th wife.”
(SARC for the last part, but is it really?)
I am not the one to play ignorant, but as a person who has been over there and seen the charades of this crap, I believe I have more of a place to stand on then anyone that sits in the house, or congress.
You are more than welcome to practice this religion in our (USA) country, but do not force your CRAP on us, and keep it to your own individual self. And yes, you will be mocked just as EVERYTHING and EVERYONE else is from time to time, get the hell over it, buncha damn children. I guess that’s what you get when your education is that of a 5th grader at best.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:42pmReligion of Pieces.Blown up Pieces.
Report Post »ejbonk
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:42pmAwwww Don’t you just love ,how tolerant and open to free thought and ideas the Radical Islamics are. It just the breeze from the Arab Spring,not be confused with Irish Spring. Hey,OBAMA STUPID,I’m NOT LOVING THIS.
Report Post »Tired-of-fools
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:42pmI guess my cartoon of a transvestite Mohammed working a corner in San Fransico wouldn’t go over too well.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:14pmLMAO! Now that’s funny!! Well done…
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:51pmIf it is a cartoon depicting Mohammed before he reached puberty, it might be acceptable (as long as he is wearing an habib). Mohammed didn’t become a prophet until later in life when the Jewish and Christian Archangel, Gabriel, gave him the Koran. The original Koran may have been written in Hebrew but it didn’t matter because Mohammed was completely illiterate his entire life.
Report Post »Sorocialism
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:40pmSounds like a good Insurance scam technique…Can’t afford your office bldg lease…insult Islam…bldg gets burned…collect insurance money.
Report Post »TheNarcoleptica
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:46pmThat is the only thing I could think of when I read this. Insurance scam. Someone investigate this.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 6:00pmSome insurance policies don’t cover “acts of Allah”.
The twin towers were over insured for acts of terrorism. Since there were two planes, the impartial courts in New York declared it was two separate acts of terrorism so the owners were able to collect double the maximum payout.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:39pmGosh, I don’t approve of the tactics of radical Muslims, but it sure seems to me that as long as there is even a few Muslims in the world, that the world will never turn to Atheism.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:38pmBetter idea France packs up the muslim community and ships them back fm whence they came!
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:24pmShipped in small, itsy-bitsy boxes!!!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:38pmCan I submit a picture of mohammad schtuping a sheep? I know I know its way embarrasing for the sheep being seen schtuping mohammad. But that humor for you.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:52pmOh The sure horror the goat will feel.The god forsaken mohhamed raped me now you want to show it to the world.Why me?Why me?Stop muslim goat porn.Do it for the poor downtrodden goats. Do it today
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:36pmAnd this it the “Religion of Peace”….
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:40pmWell that’s true, but whose winning?
Report Post »anAmericanVet
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:41pmThe Religion of Peace . . founded by a pediphile. Yep
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:44pmMore people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:21pmWhat they mean is when all the infidels are dead or converted there will be peace
Report Post »WOLFENII
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:20pmELIASIM I must be winning as it’s still illegal for pedophiles and goat molesters to live in my neighborhood. Also, as long as I have my personal stash of lead I invested in, there won’t be any of these bagheads close.
Report Post »jkilson
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:36pmyet another example of love coming from the “religion of peace.”
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:35pmNow that’s funny. I kill you! hahahaha!!!!!!!! It’s the religion of peace you know.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:06pmSometimes I worry about him too. He’s funny as all get out and now with acckkkkkmed jr. being gay and all…?
The fresh stench of Arab Spring is already here.
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:35pmThey did not like the BIG NOSE
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:27pmThe cartilage in the human nose and ears grows through out an individual’s life. I was looking at Iranian martyrs of 30 years ago and their picture today. If they were still alive, their noses grew from XL to XXXL. Muslim women were a veil to hide their growing noses. Others wear a veil to cover the shame and humiliation of being a Muslim women.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:34pmSee how much Muslims love their socialist brothers!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:30pmWe should get two collections together for the paper, one to help rebuild, the other to fund a drawing Mohammed contest.
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