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Pakistani Muslims demand death sentence for Charlie Hebdo cartoonists
A religious group rallied in the eastern city of Lahore, carrying a banner that read: 'The sketch-makers must be hanged immediately.'
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Muslims gather after Friday prayers to protest Charlie Hebdo's latest issue
Muslims gathered after Friday prayers, in cities from Algiers to Karachi, to protest against the latest edition of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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Niger Charlie protesters burn churches
At least three people have been killed and six churches attacked in Niger amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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Paris attacks: Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western intelligence
The Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been the work of an “intelligence agency”, working with the connivance of French authorities, according to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far right Front National.
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Watch Charlie Hebdo’s Editor Explain Why the Publication Attacks Religion
"We do not attack religion, but we do when it gets involved in politics"
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CyberCaliphate hacks Newsweek Twitter account; tweets "Je suIS IS"
CyberCaliphate' hacks Newsweek Twitter account; tweets "Je suIS IS" - The hackers tweeted threats to Barack Obama and his family.
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US company buys rights to Charlie Hebdo film
An American film distributor has bought the US rights to a documentary about Charlie Hebdo, one month after the deadly attacks at the French satirical magazine's headquarters.
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The Full Text of Garry Trudeau's Speech About Charlie Hebdo
In his acceptance speech for the George Polk Career Award, the cartoonist made provocative remarks about satire and the responsibility free speech confers.
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Charlie Hebdo’s Multi-Million-Dollar Pile of Tragedy Money
Since the massacre in its Paris offices, Charlie Hebdo has seen a reported influx of $33 million due to skyrocketing sales, subscriptions, and donations. Probing the tension this sudden wealth has created within the staff and the country, Roger Cohen explains why Charlie Hebdo’s fate is so important.
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Dream Classier: Why I Disagree With The Removal of The Confederate Flag From A Federal Building
While I disagree with the message that having a Confederate flag hanging in from of a state or federal building implies, I don't believe that Ms Newsome's actions were right or justified. It's the Charlie Hebdo thing all over again...
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Charlie Hebdo editor says the paper is done with prophet Muhammad cartoons
The top editor and publisher of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French newspaper that suffered a deadly terrorist attack in January, said the publication would no longer draw the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have garnered it worldwide notoriety. "We have drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever one wants," said Laurent Sourisseau, in an interview this week with Stern, a German magazine.
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We must talk about Islam: A faith that affects everyone should be susceptible to critique by all
A new documentary gets the Charlie Hebdo aftermath wrong: Freedom of expression is at stake for us all
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Why Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the drowned Syrian boy are lost in translation
Earlier this month it was the photo of a lifeless Syrian toddler named Alan Kurdi. Now, it's cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine, which are riffing on that heartbreaking image. And while many in France interpret the cartoons not as mocking the boy at all and instead part of their tradition of satire, many people on social media have been offended by the cartoons.
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Charlie Hebdo moves to new high-security offices
Nine months after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in which some of France's most celebrated cartoonists were massacred, the satirical magazine began moving Tuesday into new high-security offices in southern Paris, sources said. The remaining members of the editorial team have left their temporary home at the Paris offices of the French daily Liberation, which took in the survivors of the jihadi gun attack at Charlie Hebdo in January.
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Russia hits out at Charlie Hebdo over crash cartoon
Russia has heavily criticised French magazine Charlie Hebdo for two cartoons depicting the Sinai air crash in which 224 people, mostly Russians, died. One cartoon shows debris falling on a member of Islamic State (IS) with a caption reading: "Russia's air force intensifies its bombing." In the other, a skull and body parts of victims are depicted. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin, called the cartoons published by the satirical magazine "sacrilege".
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The Paris attacks prove Charlie Hebdo’s critics wrong
First they came for the cartoonists. Among many things that changed in the space of a couple of hours in Paris on Friday night was the significance of the murders at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in January. During the subsequent soul-searching, many people, while obviously not excusing the killings, described the dead cartoonists as racists and Islamophobes who “punched down” at minorities in cartoons that amounted to hate speech.
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New Charlie Hebdo cartoon suggests dead 3-year-old refugee Alan Kurdi would have become sexual attacker
In hindsight, the death of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian refugee who washed up on a Turkish shore after the boat he was in sank, may mark the high point in European public sympathy for refugees. The widespread reports that refugees and migrants were involved in mass sexual assaults in Cologne and other European cities on New Year's Eve could well be its nadir. Now the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has attempted to marry the two moments...
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Charlie Hebdo faces 'imminent' attack after publishing image of naked Muslims
The satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has received death threats after it published another controversial front page which has been accused of mocking Muslims. Commenting on the decision to ban burkas from beaches in Cannes, the latest issue depicts a man and woman with a traditional beard and hijab running naked on the beach with the caption “The reform of Islam: Muslims loosen up”.
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Refugee could be expelled from Denmark over Facebook post 'praising Charlie Hebdo attacks'
An Iraqi refugee could be forced to leave Denmark after he was found to have celebrated the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks on Facebook. The 25-year-old was sentenced to three months in prison and given a conditional deportation order - meaning he will be forced to leave if he commits any more crimes - after he was found to have posted a link to a story about the terror attack in January 2015. According to Danish media reports, he captioned the post with a smiley...
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Charlie Hebdo has gone soft on extremists: quitting journalist
One of Charlie Hebdo's most outspoken journalists said on Friday she is quitting the French satirical magazine because it has gone soft on Islamist extremism. Zineb El Rhazoui accused the weekly of bowing to Islamist extremists and no longer daring to draw the Prophet Mohammed. Her parting shot comes on the eve of the second anniversary of the jihadist massacre that almost wiped out the controversial magazine's staff.
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