French paper reprints Mohammad cartoon to fire bomb

Firefighters go on the damaged offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo Paris 2 November 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Benoit Tessier

By Brian love

PARIS | Wed, November 3, 2011 4: 24 pm EDT

PARIS (Reuters) - A French satirical weekly newspaper whose Office fire bombed after printing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad is the image with other cartoons in a special supplement that distributed reproduced by using one of the leading newspaper of the country.

Pro Charlie Hebdo defends 'freedom, fun", in the four page supplement, copies the left daily liberation on Thursday, a day after an arson attack headquarters in Charlie Hebdo Paris except being wound.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, the place hours before an edition of Charlie Hebdo news is available, with a cover cartoon by Mohammad and a speech bubble with the words: "100 lashes if you die not for laughing."

The weekly, known for its irreverent treatment of the political and religious figures, was entitled "Charia Hebdo," in a reference to the Muslim Sharia law, and said that the issue was guest edited by Mohammad.

The incident pits of Europe's tradition of freedom of speech and of secularism against Islam the injunction blocking all images as a mockery of the Prophet. The publication of the Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2005 sparked unrest in the Muslim world, in which at least 50 people came.

During the French Muslim group criticized work Charlie Hebdo, she condemned the fire bomb attack. The head of Paris Mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, told a press conference on Thursday: "I am extremely connected, freedom of the press, even if the press not always tender with Muslims, Islam or the Paris Mosque is."

He said "French Muslims have nothing to do with political Islam,".

Abderrahmane Dahmane, a Muslim former President Adviser for religious diversity, said he was not shocked by Charlie Hebdo front-page and jokes themselves on the matter.

"... Sometimes we have a sense of humor in the world of Islam about Islam and the Prophet, among themselves and in the presence of the imams, say, is worse than what wrote Charlie Hebdo," he quipped.

After the bombing of fire, Charlie Hebdo staff moved permanently into the offices of the liberation. The two publications together on Thursday to add, that who played Charlie Hebdo-cartoon in an article on the rear side.

A headline in the supplement said: "after their Office blaze, defended this team of ' free fun."

"We thought, had moved the lines, and that maybe it would work more respect for our satirical mocking our right." Freedom, a good laugh have just as important as freedom of expression, ", said Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier in the supplement.

Several new drawings of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists include the add-in. In one, a prophet-like figure, its billowing robes in a pose tried reminded to rein in, as designed by Charlie Hebdo newspaper under it explodes on Marilyn Monroe. Another shows an air fire bomb with a face in the flame and the caption "is so, as you can see that the prophet?"

France has Europe's largest Muslim community, about five million of a total population of 65 million. The country has a deep tradition of official secularism and approved this year, a ban on women face-covering veil wear in public.

Charbonnier of told of Reuters that another 175,000 copies of the edition quickly print his newspaper in the coming days, after the first print run of 75,000 copies sold.

Luz, cartoonist who drew the cover cartoon in the middle of the controversy, said that it was still unclear who had carried out the attack.

"Let us be careful." There is every reason to believe it is the work of fundamentalists, but it might as well the work of the two drunken, "he said in the Thursday supplement."

(Additional reporting by chine Labbe;) (Edit by Geert de Clercq and Jon line)