Charlie Hebdo cover shows a new cartoon of Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday. The surviving staff of the French publication published a defiant issue a week after several jihadists killed off 12 people inside the satirical weekly's headquarters in Paris.
Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister of France, declared a "war against terrorism" on Tuesday. Plus, apart from a global outpouring of emotion, a packed parliament also sang a touching rendition of the national "Marseillaise" anthem, a first since the end of World War I.
The now-famous Paris publication has just unveiled their new Charlie Hebdo cover that showed Prophet Mohammed who was crying while holding up a sign that said, "Je Suis Charlie" under the banner that said "All is Forgiven."
This new Charlie Hebdo cover has also already been reproduced countless times by various papers that are situated around the world ahead of Wednesday's publication.
Renald Luzier, or Luz, a cartoonist, said, "Our Mohammed is above all just a guy who is crying." Luzier managed to escape the attackers' bullets since he was late for work on the day of the massacre. A meeting was ongoing that very day when the jihadists burst into the office and mowed down the publication's top staff.
Luzier then added, referring to the Prophet Mohammed they depicted in their recent Charlie Hebdo cover, "He is much nicer than the one followed by the gunmen."
Sunni Islam's most prestigious center of learning, Al-Azhar, however, insists that further printing of such cartoons will only serve to "stir up hatred." They said in a statement that the caricatures "do not serve the peaceful coexistence between people and hinders the integration of Muslims into European and Western societies."
Egypt's state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar Al-Ifta, said earlier on Tuesday that the latest Charlie Hebdo cover was "an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims."
It said, "This edition will result in a new wave of hatred in French and Western society. What the magazine is doing does not serve coexistence and the cultural dialogue Muslims aspire to."
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