Charlie Hebdo's Brazen Defiance

 

"    The accusation that we are pouring oil on the flames in the current situation really gets on my nerves. After the publication of this absurd and grotesque film about Mohammed in the U.S., other newspapers have responded to the protests with cover stories. We are doing the same thing, but with drawings. And a drawing has never killed anyone. ...

    We publish caricatures every week, but people only describe them as declarations of war when it's about the person of the prophet or radical Islam. When you start saying that you can't create such drawings, then the same thing will soon apply to other, more harmless representations. "

read the article by  Dashiell Bennett
A History of French Satire Magazine Charlie Hebdo - The Atlantic