A French satirical magazine that faced Muslim backlash in September after publishing drawings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), has again published a 64-page “special issue” with cartoons on the life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
The editor of Charlie Hebdo weekly insisted that the publication was a properly researched and educational work prepared by a Franco-Tunisian sociologist. Stephane Charbonnier, the illustrator of the book, said he did not think higher Muslim minds could find anything inappropriate. He also told a foreign news agency last week that it was “a biography authorised by Islam since it was edited by Muslims”. Early this week, a senior political adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced the work as a deliberate provocation. “To transform the life of the prophet of Islam (PBUH) into a cartoon is in itself a mistake,” Ibrahim Kalin wrote on his Twitter account. “Whatever the people at Charlie Hebdo say, this is a provocation.” A French government spokeswoman, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said there “is no necessity to pour oil on fire”. The magazine has on several occasions published cartoon versions of Islam’s prophet (PBUH) in what it claims to be an effort to defend free speech, to the fury of many Muslims who believe depicting the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is sacrilegious. In September, the weekly published blasphemous cartoons as violent protests were taking place in several countries over a low-budget film made in the US on the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
The french are well known for showing disrespect to people of other background , ethnicity, religious belief. So then let us ignore them after all it is in their culture and such loose moral culture that most children cannot swear that the person they call their father all their lives may not be the biological father after all. They have issues.
It is not matter of disrespect but one should expand its tolerance level while matter comes to hand of non Muslims or non religious person.we cant impose our blasphemous laws on all states and culture.
When MF Hussain painted gods of other religions in an inappropriate manner there were no protests.where were all our liberals and secularists.
It is said that artists and poets are exempted from this blasphemy circle
here in my blog another blogger name ILLHAD has clicked for its introduction and it has more blasphemous content than these french cartoons and I fully hope that it wont be triggered as it is coming from safe house.Any how what we Muslims are doing with other weak fellow Muslims are more misappropriate and brutal than these blasphemous cartoons,
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