{"id":8416,"date":"2015-01-13T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/a-controversial-cover\/"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:50:19","slug":"a-controversial-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/a-controversial-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"A Controversial Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlie Hebdo Magazine to Show Islamic Prophet on Cover Again, but to Forgive.<\/h3>\n

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\nThe French satirical magazine that was subject to a deadly shooting last week has decided to publish their latest cover depicting a cartoon of the Islamic prophet once again. The cover shows the prophet with a tear in his eye and holding up a sign reading \u201cJe suis Charlie\u201d in remembrance of the dead journalists. The headline reads \u201cAll is forgiven\u201d.<\/p>\n


\nZineb El Rhazoui, one of the remaining journalists who contributed to the cover, said the cover was an act of forgiveness towards the shooters Ch\u00e9rif and Sa\u00efd Kouachi. She also urged Muslims to accept humour, \u201cWe don\u2019t feel any hate to them. We know that the struggle is not with them as people, but the struggle is with an ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nA week after the attacks the remaining devastated journalists claimed the publication would run as usual. A massive 3 million copies are to be printed, in 16 languages, after the massacre triggered a global debate on free speech and brought more than 4 million people on to the streets of France in a unity march.<\/p>\n


\nAsked to explain the magazine\u2019s front cover, which features a cartoon of a crying Muhammad wearing a \u201cJe suis Charlie\u201d badge under the heading \u201cAll is forgiven\u201d, Rhazoui said, \u201cWe feel that we have to forgive what happened. I think those who have been killed, if they would have been able to have a coffee today with the terrorists and just talk to ask them why have they done this \u2026 We feel at the Charlie Hebdo team that we need to forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe added, \u201cThe two terrorists who killed our colleagues, we cannot feel any hate \u2026 The mobilisation that happened in France after this horrible crime must open the door to forgiveness. Everyone must think about this forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMany however have opposed this decision, Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain said the situation likened to the Danish cartoon publication in 2005. He argued that at the time the cartoons depicting the prophet went into a \u201ccycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance\u201d. He states it only caused more offence. <\/p>\n


\nPrince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan echoed this view claiming the decision just added more salt to the wound, \u201cIf the cartoon had read \u2018Je suis Ahmed\u2019, given that many were carrying that badge after the police Ahmed Merabet who was killed, might not have put more salt to the wound but taken it to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nRhazoui however stands by their right to publish, \u201cI would tell them it is a drawing and they are not obliged to buy this edition of Charlie Hebdo if they don\u2019t appreciate our work. We are only doing our job, we don\u2019t violate the law.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe added, \u201cOur friends died because of small drawings, because of a joke, but what happen to us was not a joke. Muslims must understand that we in Charlie Hebdo just consider Islam as a normal religion just like any other religion in France. Islam must accept to be treated like all the other religions in this country. And they must accept humour also.\u201d \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Hebdo Magazine to Show Islamic Prophet on Cover Again, but to Forgive. The French satirical magazine that was subject to a deadly shooting last week has decided to publish their latest cover depicting a cartoon of the Islamic prophet once again. The cover shows the prophet with a tear in his eye and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}