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TheHeretic -> 100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter (11/2/2011 8:11:45 PM)
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The offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly French magazine, have been burnt down in a firebomb attack on the same day that it published a special edition entitled “Charia [Sharia] Hebdo” with the Prophet Muhammad depicted as editor-in-chief.
The paper’s website was also brought down by hackers in what staff believe was retaliation for the publication, which “celebrated” the victory of an Islamist political party in the recent Tunisian elections and the promise from Libya’s interim leader that Sharia law would be the principal source of legislation in the country. The magazine’s front page carried a large picture of the prophet, which is forbidden in Islam, with the caption: “100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/75f87b24-0541-11e1-a3d1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1cbdsxjaG
You have to love the comment from the Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, who thinks islamophobia is creating the stigmatization of the faith. Really? So it isn't the firebombings and attacks on free speech that do that?
Of course, we don't have these issues in the States, probably because when US satirists who have the balls to after everything, including Muhammed, have a go at it, they simply get censored by Comedy Central.
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