The
Previous Week the World Waked up with
the Terror Attack on the French Cartoon Magazine “ CHARLIE HEBDO “ .
Around Twelve Staffs including the Editor
of the magazine got Killed by the Islamic Terrorists.
Charlie
Hebdo is French magazine Featuring
Cartoons , Jokes , Reports and polemics . The Magazine Describes itself as
Strongly Anti- Racist and Left Wing. The
Magazine Publishing articles on Extreme
right , Religion ( Catholicism , Judaism and Islam) , Politics and Culture.
Charlie Hebdo first appeared in 1970 as a successor to the Hara-Kiri magazine, which was banned for mocking the death of
former French President Charles de Gaulle . In 1981 publication ceased,
but the magazine was resurrected in 1992.
The Main Controversy arose During 2006 . in February 2006 the
Magazine published a cartoon of Prophet Muhammed Under the title "Mahomet
débordé par les intégristes" ("Muhammad overwhelmed by
fundamentalists"), the front page showed a cartoon of a weeping Muhammad saying "C'est dur
d'être aimé par des cons" ("it's hard being loved by jerks").
The Magazine enjoyed a great commercial success due to this cartoon. French President Jacques Chirac condemned "overt provocations" which could
inflame passions. "Anything that can hurt the convictions of someone else,
in particular religious convictions, should be avoided".
In 2007 Magazine
Published a cartoon of Prophet Muhammed with a Bomb on his Turban. The
magazine told that they are not against the Muslims they are targeting Islamic fundamentalism.
In 2011 another attack on the magazine happened due to the
Publication of renamed "Charia Hebdo" (a reference to Sharia law) and
"guest-edited" by Muhammad, depicted Muhammad saying: "100 lashes of the
whip if you don't die laughing.". the newspaper's office in the 20th
arrondissement was fire-bombed and its website hacked. The attacks
were presumed to be linked to its decision to rename a special edition "Charia Hebdo", with Muhammad listed as
the "editor-in-chief"
On 7 January 2015, two Islamist gunmen (directed by an "Al Qaeda cell in
Yemen" forced their way into and opened fire in the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve,
including staff cartoonists Charb, Cabu, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski, economistBernard Maris and two police officers, and wounding eleven, four of
them seriously
After the attack the magazine declared
they will continue the publication. After the attacks, the phrase Je suis
Charlie, French for "I am
Charlie", was adopted by supporters of free speech and freedom of expression who were
reacting to the shootings. The phrase identifies a speaker or supporter with
those who were killed at the Charlie
Hebdo shooting, and by extension,
a supporter of freedom of speech and resistance to armed threats. Some
journalists embraced the expression as a rallying cry for the freedom of
self-expression.
The slogan was first used on Twitter and spread to the Internet at large.
The Twitter account and the original "Je suis Charlie" picture
bearing the phrase in white Charlie Hebdo style font on black background were
created by French journalist and artist Joachim Roncin just after the massacre
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