Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Muhammad will be back on the cover of the next edition of Charlie
Hebdo,
along with a message of forgiveness from surviving staffers at
the French satirical magazine where 12 people were killed last week by a
pair of Islamist brothers angered over the publication's penchant for
showing images of the prophet.
The decimated, but uncowed magazine upped its usual print run of
60,000 copies to 3 million for the magazine, due out Wednesday but
released to the French newspaper Liberation.
Fierce bidding on eBay had editions commanding as much as $500
following the outpouring of support for Charlie Hebdo, whose four top
cartoonists were among the dozen killed. Editor-in-chief Gérard Biard
said in a Tuesday radio interview the decision to run a cartoon if
Muhammad holding a a “Je Suis Charlie” sign with the caption "Tout est
pardonne," or "All is forgiven," and said the message was not that
Muhammad was offering forgiveness, as some initially assumed.
"It is we who forgive, not Muhammad,” he told France Info.
