Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Photos: Read the new issue of #CharlieHebdo in English: This new edition sells out today

I don't know if I am making any sense but I wish Charlie Hebdo, France and the world at large would just  move on and desist from the mockery of Prophet Muhammed, Islam and all.
Our prayer now should be for peace to reign in our land (this world) and for God to rest the souls of the departed. # JustMyOneCent.
Back to the matter......
No one is safe from France’s cartoonists: An Islamic cleric worries Charlie Hebdo's cartoonist martyrs will steal his virgins and the pope calls women ‘cocksuckers.’
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Before dawn in Paris today (Wednesday morning), and all over France, newsstands were overwhelmed with demand for the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the survivors’ issue. It sold out within minutes. The presses are still whirring as the magazine tries to produce five million copies for delivery, up from the normal print run of 60,000, but there’s no need to wait, The Daily Beast has snagged a copy for you.

Under extraordinary circumstances, the surviving staff of Charlie Hebdo has produced an issue that is perfectly true to type: defiant, uncompromising, funny, sometimes bittersweet, but with nary a hint of the melodramatic. None of the murdered staffers are left out and, just as they would have liked, no target for ridicule is spared.
The cover:
The cartoonist Luz has reprised the Muhammad caricature that made the satirical publication the target of the terrorists in the first place. But the resulting prophet is compassionate, not crude. He is tearful, holding up the same “Je suis Charlie” sign that has become a global clarion call for free expression this week. Above his head, is a banner declaring: “All is forgiven.”
Luz told reporters Tuesday that he cried after drawing it. “It wasn’t the cover the world wanted us to do. It wasn’t the cover the terrorists wanted us to do. But it’s ours. We drew Muhammad again. I’m sorry. But the Muhammad we drew is above all a fellow who is crying,” he said. Editor in Chief GĂ©rard Biard added thatCharlie’s Muhammad here is a far kinder character than the one evoked by the terrorists who gunned down his staff.
Jean Paul Bierlein reads the new Charlie Hebdo outside a newsstand in Nice
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A sign which translates as 'Charlie Hebdo - Sold Out'  is displayed at a newsagents in Bordeaux
People wait outside a newsagents in Dunkirk on January 14, 2015 as the latest edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo goes on sale.
Members of the public queue at a newspaper kiosk, where copies of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo magazine are sold
A man buys a copy of Charlie Hebdo newspaper at a newsstand in Rennes, western France
A queue of people wait outside a kiosk to get a copy of Charlie Hebdo in Saint Germain en Laye
People wait outside a newsagents in Paris
A paper that reads: 'No more Charlie Hebdo' is posted after all copies of the satirical newspaper were sold out at a newsstand in Paris

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