French Magazine firebombed by Muslims in Paris

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Charlie Hebdo Offices Firebombed After It Joked About The Prophet Muhammad (Pictures) Puff Ho (hat tip Paulo)

The Paris office of the satirical French Magazine Charlie Hebdo has been firebombed and its website has been hacked. It follows the announcement that the magazine would be 'guest edited' by the Prophet Muhammad.

It has been reported that the office was gutted by fire at around 1:00am Paris time, but there were no injuries.

Patrick Pelloux, a witness to the attack, told the AFP news agency that a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window.

"Everything was destroyed," he said.

According to the Associated Press the director of the magazine said “the material damages are large”.

On Tuesday the magazine said that the Prophet Muhammad would be editing the magazine in "honour" of Islam's role in this year's uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other Islamic countries.

"In order fittingly to celebrate the Islamist Ennahda's win in Tunisia and the NTC (National Transitional Council) president's promise that sharia would be the main source of law in Libya, Charlie Hebdo asked Muhammad to be guest editor," the editorial team said in a statement.

On Wednesday morning the magazine's website had also apparently been hacked by an Islamist group.

There have been several cases in Europe of cartoonists, journalists and publishers being threatened or attacked after depicting cartoons and pictures of the religious figure.

Charlie Hebdo was taken to court in 2007 by two Muslim groups for reprinting those cartoons, but the suit was thrown out.

The craven quislings at the BBC prostrate themselves (Over at BBBC)

It's been interesting observing the BBC coverage of the overnight firebombing of the offices of French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo".

The offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, French police say. It comes a day after the publication named the Prophet Muhammad as its "editor-in-chief" for its next issue.Its cover carried a caricature of the Prophet making a facetious comment. The magazine said the move was intended to "celebrate" the victory of an Islamist party in last month's Tunisian elections. Charlie Hebdo's editor is quoted as saying: "We no longer have a newspaper. All our equipment has been destroyed."

The BBC angle seems to be that these French satirists brought it on themselves being deliberately provocative. No discussion as to who carried out the fire-bombing. Perhaps "youths" from Les Banlieus? We'l never know. The website of the magazine has also been hacked, with a message in English and Turkish, left on it. (Not French, entertainingly!). Again, no real examination as to WHO was behind this.

UPDATE: Firebombed French mag got message: "You keep abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech. Be Allah's curse upon you!" Jihadwatch

Comments

[alyn21]

I am no fan of muslims, islam or even the stupid french. But after all that has hsppened in Europe especially after the incident with the Danish cartoons, one would think that any newspaper especially in a country like France with 500,000 muslims in it would think twice before saying anything about Mohammed.
The owner of that French magazine must be an unusally obtuse individual not to have anticipated some kind of violent reaction to what he had in mind.

[Crombouke]

Turning Mohammed into a global figure of ridicule and international laughing stock is the surest way to destroy Islam.

The character of Mohammed is the cult's Achilles heel, and attacks such as this demonstrate how vulnerable Islam is on this point.

Any doubts as to the character of Mohammed can cause the whole house of Islam to sink into the quicksand of its foundations. Muslims realise this, because they fly into tantrums whenever Mohammed or the Koran is 'disrespected' . Under Sharia law any criticism or either Mohammed or the Koran is blasphemy which is punished by death.

This paranoid, hypersensitive defensiveness and outrage at criticism are not the reactions of a confident belief system, but of an information-control cult. These reactions are evidence of an attempt to protect a fatal vulnerability, an attempt to cover an Achilles heel.

We need to satirise and ridicule Mohammed until the Muslims fly into uncontrollable tantrums, then ridicule them even more for their tantrums, and repeat the process until they froth at the mouth and steam comes out of their ears.. http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-destroy-islam-non-violently.html

[jus wonderin]

WTH - it ain't even friday.... (hmm i wonder how fast JNap can start checking their twitter feed)

[jim gall]

thats what they want,to scare everyone into not even mentioning their child marrying "prophet"if they have no sense of humour i suggest they take the next lorry to libya where nato have ensured they can live in the 7th century and live under their beloved sharia,why not start deportations of any that threaten the people of whatever country they decided to invite themselves to?.islam has no place outside the middle east.horrible disgusting animals.

[Denae]

soooo Alyn21. You are basically saying that they should have kept their mouth shut and not made fun of Mohammed, right? Well this is what is wrong with our world. We have the right to say whatever we want. No one should be blown up for it. I am a Christian - and people make fun of Jesus Christ all the time - his name is used as a cussword. I don't see Christians blowing up someone's office because they make a funny cartoon about Jesus. But yet anyone says one word about the Islamic way of life or makes any kind of joke about M they get blown up or tortured or murdered - and you say "they should have known better." WOW

[armaros]

Islam claims to oppose idolatry yet they made Mo into the greatest golden bull of all time.

[Cheryl Barker]

"Golden bull" indeed. A large lump of gold plated bull sh!t is more appropriate. I agree that laughter is the best way to destroy islam. Thunderous loud guffaws and ridicule and crude drawings from every publication in the world. Even the most devout muzz can only bomb so much in a day. What to do? What to do? They'll run themselves into a frenzy and self-destruct in a huge ball of fire and smoke.

[Alyn21]

To Denae (hope I spelled your name correctly).
What I am saying is that the reality in France today is that there are 500,000 muslims living in that country most of whom support the more violent aspects of their so-called religion.
What you say about having the rights of free speech is true under normal circumstances.
But the situation in France is no longer normal. People who speak out can expect no support from the so-called authorities. Just ask any Jew who lives in France or anyone else for that matter that the muslims don't like.
If you are going to speak out in that kind of environment you better expect a violent response.
I doubt very much if the owners of Charlie Hebdo considered this otherwise they would have taken steps to protect their business in anticipation of the violent response.
I am as big a democrat as you are. I am just saying that you have to judge the situation realistically and if you are going to take a risk you have to be prepared to deal with the fallout.
Clearly the owners of the magazine paid no attention to what has been going on around them.

[Kufr Dawg]

For muslimes this constitutes freedom of speech, a right they seem to exercise all too frequently in Israel and the only solution seems a good dose of lead poisoning...

[Robin Shadowes]

The Mahound cartoon reminds me of somebody else. Namely the french comic book character Iznogoud. He's been around since the early 60's without winding up the koranimals.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yblMrrhsinc/TKdYrJ_PlKI/AAAAAAAAB5k/p3b0B6_7s8Q/s1600/Izno2.jpg

[ApolloSpeaks]

CHARLIE HEBDO'S CHARB

A profile of courage.

A hero for our time.

Deserve's the Counter-Jihadist's Medal of Honor

[karl anglin]

How long will Western civilization stand for this?

[informer]

French get what they deserve! no pity! they infested France with muslim scumbags and always were to socialisticly protective over that scum...no wonder if French do not read messages; first Sabbath,then Sunday!