We should have freedom to poke fun: Unrepentant French newspaper reprints Mohammed cartoon

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Charlie Hebdo produced a four-page supplement wrapped around copies of the left-wing daily Liberation today, a day after the arson attack on its Paris headquarters.

Following the attack, Charlie Hebdo staff moved temporarily into the offices of Liberation. The two publications jointly produced today's supplement.

'We thought the lines had moved and that maybe there would be more respect for our satiricial work, our right to mock. Freedom to have a good laugh is as important as freedom of speech,' said Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier in the supplement.

The supplement included several new drawings by Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. In one, a prophet-like figure tries to restrain his billowing robes in a pose reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe as a draft blows up from Charlie Hebdo newspapers below him.

Another shows an airborne firebomb with a face in the flames and the caption, 'So, is this how you see the prophet?'     Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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