The Memorial Edition Of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Will Include Cartoons Of Muhammad

This coming Wednesday, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo will release a special memorial edition that remembers and pays tribute to the ten staff members of the magazine, and the two police officers, who lost their lives in the heinous attack on their offices by armed, rogue gunmen on January 7th – as well as the four hostages who were murdered by gunmen in subsequent police raids.

Naturally, the best way to respond to an attack such as this is to simply get on with your work as normally as you possibly can. For Charlie Hebdo, that means attempting to ruffle as many feathers as humanly possible.
The memorial issue – which will have one million copies printed and be translated into sixteen languages – will include cartoons of and jokes about the Islamic prophet Muhammad; the source of most of the controversy that’s come the magazine’s way over the past decade.
RIchard Malka, a lawyer for the magazine, confirmed that Muhammad will “naturally” appear, alongside jokes about other religions.
We will not give in otherwise all this won’t have meant anything.
The front cover for the magazine has also been revealed, and will include a cartoon of Muhammad prominently featured, along with the phrase “Tout est pardonné” or “All is forgiven.”

Meanwhile Luz, a cartoonist at Charlie, stated that the magazine’s surviving staff is doing the best they can, trying to put together the memorial edition.

We’re getting by. We are having fewer nightmares. We are trying to put a magazine together and find some calm and inspiration, it’s not easy. We are down to a skeleton staff since last Wednesday as you might have noticed but we’ll try our best.

The memorial edition of Charlie Hebdo is scheduled for release this Wednesday.
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