Charlie Hebdo :-
- It is a french satirical weekly magazine featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication describes itself as strongly anti-racist.
- Charlie Hebdo(Charlie Weekly) is renowned for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders and has published numerous cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad
- It was started in 1969 with the name HARA KIRI by Francois Cavanna .
- It was banned in 1970 because of an article published for natural disaster.
- Hara kiri changed its name from Hara Kiri to Charlie Hebdo to prevent ban, but its publication was again banned in 1981 and then magazine was closed for next 10 years .
- In 1992 , after first gulf war, magazine revived and start publishing again, that time its weekly magazine sales was around 1 lakh magazine in France.
- Controversy arose over the publication's edition of 9 February 2006 and it came under attack from muslims all over the world .
- 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 newspaper reprinted the twelve cartoons of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and added some of their own. Compared to a regular circulation of 100,000 sold copies, this edition enjoyed great commercial success. 160,000 copies were sold and another 150,000 were in print later that day.
- French President Jacques Chirac also condemned "overt provocations" which could inflame passions. "Anything that can hurt the convictions of someone else, in particular religious convictions, should be avoided", Chirac said. The Grand Mosque, the Muslim World League and the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) sued, claiming the cartoon edition included racist cartoons. A later edition contained a statement by a group of twelve writers warning against Islamism
- Controversy again came in 2011 and magazine came under attack ( in 2011 its website was hacked and its office was firebombed ) because of its controversial 3 November 2011 issue, 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
- In September 2012, the newspaper published a series of satirical cartoons of Muhammad, some of which featured nude caricatures of him. Given that this issue came days after a series of attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East, purportedly in response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, the French government decided to increase security at certain French embassies, as well as to close the French embassies, consulates, cultural centers, and international schools in about 20 Muslim countries.In addition, riot police surrounded the offices of the magazine to protect it against possible attacks.Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius criticised the magazine's decision, saying, "In France, there is a principle of freedom of expression, which should not be undermined.
- 2015 Attack :- on 7 january 2015 ,the attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ was France’s deadliest terror attack in at least two decades. It resulted in the death of newspaper’s Chief Editor Charb (real name Stephane Charbonnier) and 3 cartoonists along with 9 others. The dead included newspaper’s journalists and 2 security personnel. The two gunmen, suspected to be Islamist fundamentalists, were however successful in escaping the site. The last tweet on its account mocked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State, which has taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
- A German newspaper (.Hamburger Morgenpost, a newspaper based in the German city of Hamburg) was pelted with rocks and an incendiary device Sunday, according to published reports, just days after taking the controversial step to reprint multiple cartoons from Charlie Hebdomagazine that depicted the prophet Mohammed
- In response to Charlie Hebdo 's attack , A Unity March has been organised in Paris on 12 january ( More than three million people have taken part in unity marches across France after 17 people died during three days of deadly attacks in Paris.Up to 1.6million are estimated to have taken to the streets of the French capital.More than 40 world leaders joined the start of the Paris march, linking arms in an act of solidarity.)
- A yemen based Al-Qaeda branch claimed responsibility of Charlie Hebdo Attack .
Some of The controversial Cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo :-
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