French magazine attacked over Muhammad joke

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/french-newspaper-firebombed-naming-prophet-mohammed-guest-editor-164745407.html

French newspaper firebombed for naming Prophet Mohammed guest editor

By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline – 6 hrs ago

The offices of a satirical French newspaper were destroyed by a firebomb on Wednesday, a day after naming the Prophet Mohammed as the guest editor of this week's issue.

"We no longer have a newspaper," the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, the publication, told a French radio station. "All our equipment has been destroyed or has melted."

According to police reports cited by the press, a Molotov cocktail was tossed into the paper's Paris offices at about 1 a.m. local time. No injuries were reported.

Charlie Hebdo's website was also hacked. "You keep abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech," a message from the apparent hacker read. "Be God's curse upon you!"

"Freedom of expression is an inalienable right in our democracy and all attacks on the freedom of the press must be condemned with the greatest firmness," France's prime minister François Fillon said in a statement. "No cause can justify such an act of violence."

In 2005, a Danish newspaper published a series of cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, sparking violent protests and threats from Muslims throughout Europe and the Middle East. Al Qaeda claimed credit for a 2008 bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan, citing the cartoons as the reason for the attack. (Charlie Hebdo republished the cartoons, which first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.)

Last year, a radical Muslim group threatened violent retribution against the creators of "South Park" for their depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit. Comedy Central subsequently censored the show when it aired, prompting criticism from the show's creators.

[Laveau 67]

If you knew ANYTHING abt Muslims you'd know it was not REAL Muslims that did this! God!!!!

[mawilson 2,133]

If you knew ANYTHING abt Muslims you'd know it was not REAL Muslims that did this! God!!!!

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

If you knew ANYTHING abt Muslims you'd know it was not REAL Muslims that did this! God!!!!

Your probably right. I'm going to have to go with Lutherans on this one. Those bloody Lutherans never could handle religious criticism. D@am them to h*ll!

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Better watch it, I'll nail 95 Theses to your door.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

If you knew ANYTHING abt Muslims you'd know it was not REAL Muslims that did this! God!!!!

Yea, real Muslims murder people and destroy property. I make it a point to do that everyday coz I don't want anyone to think I'm a fake Muslim. Better that they think I'm Catholic.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Ouchie. I mean who could have seen this coming?

[Ban Hammer 13,501]

i guess that prophet is non profit now.

[Ready to do it 101]

I assume you meant to use the word "many or most" in place of "real?" I thought you were muslim? Your post has me scratching my head. I assume it's a typo.

Yea, real Muslims murder people and destroy property.

[웃 910]

I assume you meant to use the word "many or most" in place of "real?" I thought you were muslim? Your post has me scratching my head. I assume it's a typo.

She is being sarcastic. She is a lamb-moose. I mean a moose-lamb.

Edited November 3, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[Sofiyya 1,687]

She is being sarcastic. She is a lamb-moose. I mean a moose-lamb.

And you're an athee-a$$

Edited November 3, 2011 by Sofiyya

[웃 910]

And you're an athee-a$

You are lamb-music. I mean moose-lambic

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Ok, that was funny

You are lamb-music. I mean moose-lambic

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

If you knew ANYTHING abt Muslims you'd know it was not REAL Muslims that did this! God!!!!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Obviously, Fake Muslims.