Slide Show: A collection of past covers from Charlie Hebdo
Aux Chiottes Toutes Les Religions
Piss Christ, a religiously controversial 1987 photograph by Andres Serrano, was vandalized while on display in Avignon, The event prompted Charlie Hebdo to declare that “After the Piss Christ Scandal of Avignon, all religion’s gone down the toilet.”
Islamaphobie
The December, 2010 edition of Charlie Hebdo, commenting on France’s increasingly Islamophobic climate. The caption above the nativity scene reads: “Should we be afraid of little Jesus?” France has passed has controversial laws—such as banning religious symbols, i.e. veils, from schools—in the interest of avoiding religious conflict and preserving the state’s secularism.
Sarko Akbar!
Nicolas Sarkozy declares that the Muslim who worships him is the good Muslim. The French president has passed anti-immigrant--particularly anti-Muslim—legislation, impacting the religious and civil rights of Muslims in France.
Sarko Parano
French president Sarkozy faced national pressure in September 2011 when his administration spied on an investigative journalist from the newspaper Le Monde. Charlie Hebdo’s September cover depicted Sarkozy listening in on his unborn son, who is calling the newspaper.
DSK Président!
The magazine printed this cover when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, was indicted for sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York. Strauss-Kahn had sought the Socialist nomination in the 2007 French presidential primaries.
Évêques Pédophiles
In March 2010 the magazine mocked the Catholic Church sex scandals. Pope Benedict XVI advises a “pedophile bishop” to “go into movies, like Polanski.”
Ben Laden Est Vivant!
The May, 2011 edition of Charlie Hebdo, caption reads “Ben Laden is alive!”
Charlie Hebdo, a weekly French satirical magazine, had its offices damaged by a firebomb the morning of November 2, just before a special edition “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad appeared on newsstands. The edition was renamed “Charia Hebdo,” a play on the French word for Shariah law, and was inspired by an Islamist party’s victory in Tunisian elections. No one was injured in the bombing, but the paper’s offices were destroyed. Hackers also infiltrated the magazine’s web site and the magazine’s editors were blocked from their Facebook page after thousands posted angry comments and reported the page as offensive.
Charlie Hebdo has ridiculed everyone from bin Laden to the Pope to French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
Since the bombing Charlie Hebdo’s editors have started a blog, and will continue to publish the magazine. Employees are currently operating from the offices of the French daily Liberation.
The special edition, for which the magazine was bombed, appeared on schedule and sold out on newsstands. On November 4, Charlie Hebdo released more print copies of the edition.The new re-release included a four page supplement reproducing the Muhammad cartoon under the headline, “After their office blaze, this team defends the ‘freedom to poke fun.’”
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