“WhoisMuhammad” trends on Twitter in response to Charlie Hebdo attack

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After last week’s terror attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket, social media site Twitter has been flooded with a number hashtags expressing solidarity with the victims of the attack.

The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie was used to show solidarity with the murdered cartoonists and journalists, #JeSuisAhmed was used to mourn the loss of a Muslim policeman who died protecting Charlie Hebdo‘s staff, and #JeSuisJuif was used to venerate the victims of the kosher supermarket hostage situation.

Attackers Cherif and Saif Kouachi shouted, “We have avenged the Prophet” after storming the offices the magazine and gunning down 12 people.

Now, Muslims around the world have stepped forward to positively reclaim the image of the Prophet Mohammad(PBUH) and to spread a positive and peaceful version of his teachings through hashtag #WhoIsMuhammad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tweets come after three million issues of the first post-attack issue of Charlie Hebdo were published in France – the front page featuring a blasphemous caricature of the Prophet (PBUH).

“I hope this doesn’t trigger more attacks. The world is already mourning the losses of many lives under the name of religion,” Hamad Alfarhan, a 29-year old Kuwaiti doctor told a foreign news agency.

Abbas Shumann, deputy to the Grand Sheik of Cairo’s influential Al-Azhar mosque, said the new image was “a blatant challenge to the feelings of Muslims who had sympathized with this newspaper.”

Advising Muslims to ignore the latest move by magazine authorities, Shumann said that Muslims should respond “by showing tolerance, forgiveness and shedding light on the story of the prophet.”

He further said “An angry reaction will not solve the problem but will instead add to the tension and the offense to Islam.”

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Darkness can not eliminate darkness only light can do that, hat can not eliminate hate only love can do that, ignitance can not rulenout ignorance only education can do that.

  2. Darkness can not eliminate darkness only light can do that, hate can not eliminate hate only love can do that, ignorance can not eliminate ignorance only education can do that. Taught by mohammed PBUH SAW 1400 yrs ago

  3. TEACH THE WORLD TO SING — TEACH OF SIN CITIES OF SODOM N GUMRAH ..MOHMD DESTROYED THE SINBINS –

  4. Im totally confused. Can someone please explain to me why one should consider the Charlie Hebdo cartoon as offensive? (1) To whom is it offensive? (2) What does it offend? (3) What do you mean by "offend"? (4) Why does it matter that it is "offensive"? (5) How can you claim that you know the correct answers to these questions; do you have evidence? (6) Do you respect logics?

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