French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo publishes a special edition on the eve of the anniversary of a jihadist attack that wiped out most of its staff, prompting protests from the Vatican over a cover lampooning God.
In typical Charlie Hebdo fashion, the special edition features a bloodstained, bearded God-figure in sandals with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder under the headline: “One year on: the killer is still at large.”
The Vatican criticizes the cover for failing to “acknowledge or to respect believers’ faith in God, regardless of the religion.”
“Behind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat… using God to justify hatred — is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times.”
A photo taken on January 4, 2016, at a printing house near Paris shows the cover of the latest edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, bearing a headline that translates as ‘One year on: The assassin still at large,’ in an edition to mark the first anniversary of the terror attack. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
The provocative cover is typical of the fiercely secular publication whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammed drew the fury of Muslims around the world and, according to the attackers, inspired the bloody assault on its offices on January 7 last year.
— AFP
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