Charlie Hebdo a publié une nouvelle version de son hebdomadaire satirique avec des caricatures sur l’avion russe qui s'est écrasé en mer Noire avec 92 personnes à bord. A Moscou, ces dessins ont été accueillis avec indignation. 

La Russie, endeuillée par la tragédie en mer Noire, digère mal les caricatures de l'hebdomadaire français.

«Les défécations sur le papier de ces bipèdes parisiens ne nous touchent pas au cœur. Il ne faut pas même prêter attention à cette abomination, humiliante pour toute personne normalement constituée. Je voudrais mettre en avant juste une chose : si cette soi-disant œuvre représente les valeurs occidentales, leurs dépositaires et défenseurs sont condamnés au moins à la solitude dans le futur. Il n’est pas étonnant que nos compatriotes qui avaient posé dans les maillots Je suis Charlie se taisent», a déclaré le porte-parole du ministère de la Défense russe, Igor Konachenkov.

La vice-porte-parole du parlement russe, Irina Iarovaïa, a jugé que la caricature se trouvait «hors de la morale humaine et hors de la loi».

«C’est de l’extrémisme qui n’a aucun rapport avec le journalisme et la créativité», a-t-elle poursuivi.

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https://francais.rt.com/international/31501-abomination-moscou-indigne-p...

Translation:

Charlie Hebdo published a new version of his satirical weekly with caricatures on the Russian plane that crashed in the Black Sea with 92 people on board. In Moscow, these drawings were greeted with indignation.

Russia, bereaved by the tragedy in the Black Sea, digests badly the caricatures of the French weekly.

"The defecations on paper of these Parisian bipeds do not touch our hearts. One should not even pay attention to this abomination, humiliating to any person normally constituted. I would like to put forward just one thing: if this so-called work represents Western values, their custodians and defenders are at least condemned to loneliness in the future. It is not surprising that our compatriots who had posed in the jerseys I am Charlie are silent, "said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konachenkov.

The vice-spokesman of the Russian parliament, Irina Iarovaya, ruled that the caricature was "out of human morality and out of the law".

"It's extremism that has nothing to do with journalism and creativity," she said.

Following the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo two years ago today, the satirical paper was catapulted to global celebrity. The French state claimed Charlie as one of its own, President François Hollande equating the killings to an attack on all French. While hypocritically linking arms with tyrants and dictators, Hollande fronted “republican” marches that drew millions onto streets across France, under the Je Suis Charlie slogan. Charlie became a byword for freedom of expression. Once a thorn in the side of the French elites, it was now the incarnation of traditional republican values.

Whether Charlie liked it or not, it had also become an avatar of Western antagonism to Islam. Its writers have refuted this cooptation, insisting that they target Islamism rather than ordinary Muslims.  They further deny that their caricatures of Muhammad and other Islamic figures constitute Islamophobia (indeed they deny Islamophobia per se), simply stating that they act in their longstanding anticlerical tradition and France’s strong secular laïcité convention.

As lead cartoonist and victim Cabu himself stated not long before the attack:

I’m a republican. I’m often called an anarchist but not at all; I believe in the rule of law. We are a secular country and secularism has to be respected. That’s it.

Ironically this came in a television interview titled: “Cabu, ‘I respect nothing.’”

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/charlie-hebdo-satire-islamophobia-lai...

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Just imagine… if a plane carrying members of a famous French military choir had crashed on Christmas Day, killing everyone on board. And that shortly afterwards, a leading Russian ’satirical magazine’ had mocked the tragedy, drawing cartoons of the choir singing to 'a new audience’ on the seabed and posted a caption saying that the only ‘bad news’ about the crash was that French President Francois Hollande had not been on board. There would, I’m sure, have been plenty of 'superior’ discussion in Western media about the 'moral depravity' and the 'dark soul’ of the Russian character. But the plane that crashed was carrying Russian singers. And it was the elite-approved Charlie Hebdo magazine which poked fun at the dead.

So there was no outcry in the West. And no accusations of ‘racism.'

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https://www.rt.com/op-edge/375011-just-imagine-russian-troops-america/?u...

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The new issue of inflammatory French magazine Charlie Hebdo appears to mock the death and utter devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Harvey.

“God Exists! He Drowned All the Neo-Nazis of Texas,” the weekly mag’s cover screams.

An illustration of half-submerged swastika flags and arms giving the Nazi salute accompanies the headline.

Critics were quick to blast the mag for poking fun at the mega-disaster, which claimed at least 37 lives and displaced tens of thousands of people.

“So the idiots at Charlie Hebdo are cheering the #Houston #Harvey disaster b/c they claim it drowned neo-Nazis. WTF?!” tweeted conservative pundit Debbie Schlussel.

“Hey Charlie Hebdo F— You Scumbag! Those were all God Loving Americans that Grandfathers saved FRANCE from NAZI’s,” tweeted user @USMC_Michaels.

read more:

http://nypost.com/2017/08/30/charlie-hebdo-cover-casts-harvey-victims-as...

Charlie has always been in bad taste and this is no different. See mock cover at top created by Gus...