Charlie Hedbo Cartoons of the Prophet

Brandon Fisher

Humanities 2:00 MWF

October 30, 2016

Assignment 3  

Charlie Hedbo cartoons of the Prophet

        As my topic of interest, I choose Charlie Hedbo cartoons of the Prophet.  Charlie Hedbo was a French weekly magazines featuring cartoons, reports and jokes about terrorist attacks. It was targeted as a whole from two terrorist attacks. The magazine on the situation first appeared in 1970 and was originally banned, because it was a image of the former French president. The magazine was often looked at as a major threat to the social media because, the prophet are forbidden in Islam. Throughout different stages of the publications Charlie had major history of publishing provocative images. It was said to target the Muslim and Islamic extremist after the pictures where released to the prophet Muhammad. Charlie often tried to argue that his work was not provocation, but he French laws blamed him, which emerged social media.  

        The first series of cartoons was published in two-thousand five with the prophet Muhammad’s a terrorist with a bomb. Charlie Hedbo developed a general persona about his joking magazines in two-thousand six for the portrayal of a sobbing Muhammad, under the headline. This is where Charlie became a major terrorist target because of his work published. This resulted in twelve left shot dead from his central office.  The cartoon was then overlooked by the French council and sued the cartoon. With all this confusion, this positioned Charlie Hedbo as a target for terrorist attacks. These cartoons continued to merge out into the world, throughout two-thousand fifteen reaching up to three million copies of the new edition showing Je Siu’s Charlie Sign. I choose the work because it was eye catching to me and there was a lot of action taken place throughout his pictures. These cartoons can considered very helpful to Muslim and French history concerning the terrorist attacks faced in their country.  

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References

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11341599/Prophet-Muhammad-cartoons-controversy-timeline.html 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/17/charlie-hebdo-editor-says-the-paper-is-done-with-prophet-muhammad-cartoons/