This Is What's in the New Charlie Hebdo Issue
BBC Foreign Correspondent Fergal Keane was given an advanced copy of this week's Charlie Hebdo. Judging from Keane's description of the issue, the magazine contains about what you'd expect: crude caricatures of Muhammad, a woman lifting her burka to show her naked body, sexual images of the pope, cartoons about ISIS, and more. Keane's tweets about the issue are embedded below:
#CharieHebdo I've been given a copy of magazine
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo it features Prophet cartoon and satire on Islamic State.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo Mag also features woman raising burka to reveal naked form.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo There is also crude sexual content on Pope
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo Back page says: 25 years of work. terrorists 25 seconds of work
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo 1/3 Editorial in magazine I've seen thanks millions who've shown solidarity.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo 2/2 But mag editorial attacks "pseudo intellectual insinuations" that it was Islamophobic.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo 3/3 Mag also says that millions who said 'Je Suis Charlie' also said "I am secularist"
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo I've been into small office where mag put together.Copy has 16 pages.Much of it crude sexual satire.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Spoke to Editor who defended magazine's record of causing offence. "We tease everybody."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Emotional scene inside small office where mag put together as editor hugged cartoonist "Luz" who drew the latest image.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag also says this week that it thanks those who genuinely defend freedom of speech "but rest can go f** themselves."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag strongly criticises those who say "we condemn terrorism but..."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag says "what made us laugh most this week is that the bells of Notre Dame rang in our honour."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
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