French paper reprints Mohammad cartoon after firebomb

French police Hebdo Paris face the damaged offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie, 2nd November 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Benoit Tessier

By Brian love

PARIS | Wed, November 3, 2011 11: 07 am EDT

PARIS (Reuters) - A French satirical weekly's Office firebombed was, 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, the daily order copies of the left liberation 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 kiosks, with a cover cartoon of 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.

While French Muslim criticizes Charlie Hebdo work groups, she condemned the firebomb 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."

"French Muslims have nothing to do with political Islam," he added.

After the bombing, Charlie Hebdo temporarily moved employees in 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 firebomb 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, which is put on trial.

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;) (Editing by Geert de Clercq and Peter Graff)