Charlie Hebdo’s next issue to feature crying Muhammad on cover
The cover of Charlie Hebdo’s next issue, due out Wednesday, will have a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad crying and holding an “I am Charlie” sign under the headline “All is forgiven.” The image was published online Monday by the French daily Liberation.
Charlie Hebdo staffers are working in Liberation’s offices after attackers entered the satirical weekly magazine’s headquarters in Paris last Wednesday and killed 12 people, including its chief editor and several prominent cartoonists. The magazine apparently was attacked because of its mocking caricatures of Islam and the prophet Muhammad, among the irreverent publication’s many targets.
“We will not give in. The spirit of ‘I am Charlie’ means the right to blaspheme,” Charlie Hebdo attorney Richard Malka told France Info radio on Monday, according to the BBC.
Since the attack, people worldwide have been using the slogan “I am Charlie” in solidarity with the victims. Massive demonstrations have used it as a rallying cry, and members of Hollywood’s elite sported it on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.
Charlie Hebdo plans to print 3 million copies of Wednesday’s issue, according to CBC News. The standard run is 60,000 copies, the BBC said.
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