Magazine Firebombed for Depicting Muhammad

Published November 2, 2011 6:01pm ET



Before the latest issue of the French humor magazine Charlie Hebdo could even hit newstands, its office was firebombed. Apparently some did not find the humorists’ depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to be very funny and decided to say so by throwing a Molotov cocktail through the office windows early this morning.

The cover features a depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad (the issue’s supposed guest editor) with this tagline: “100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter.”

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