Breaking News - Allegedly 10 people killed at office of satirical magazine in Paris

White,22.03 , I am not holding my breath TBH

Perhaps ANA is telling it like she sees it .

According to Charlie Hebdo columnist Zineb El Rhazoui, the drawing is a call to forgive gunmen Chérif and Saïd Kouachi — not, say, a depiction of the Muslim prophet forgiving the newspaper for its offensive cartoons.

This is from New York News and Politics so not obvious.

Gosh! You never let me down ana

'Just look at it and it's obvious' - how incredibly patronising!

Not all Muslims merlot. Forgiveness is a good place to start though, and it is also good to accept the hand that offers it. Let us hope that those who take insult are bigger than that.

Jesus was being crucified when he uttered those words and were people being murdered in his name?

Charlie Hebdo will not be winning any Muslim friends by assuming they know what Mohammed would say. They will see it as an insult.

Who said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do"? Jesus a prophet in the Christian tradition and so Mohammed another prophet in the Islam tradition is following suit. I think he is also saying "Not in my name for I am Charlie"

Who is forgiving whom, whitewave?

If it's so obvious, I mean.

I do agree that the Charlie cartoonists are in the 1968 left-wing tradition. I remember those times so well! I don't think that the cartoon is at all obscure. Just look at it and it is obvious, and clever and thoughtful and forgiving.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the cartoon confusing.

I don't believe even the maker of that cover knows what it's supposed to mean. Totally obscure.

post to thatbags.

Actually, I think I will leave that question and this thread. I dont feel right joining in your game.

I read the article. Yes, it is good writing on the whole.

I'm particularly grateful for the cartoonist's explanation of the meaning intended to be conveyed by the picture on the latest cover, although the fact that it had to be explained is worrying in itself.

thatbags. You say that your family all used to debate ad infinitum with each other.

That does not mean they should be murdered.

The cartoonists are inciting.
They are defiant and they are not going to stop.
They know what they are doing.

The Charlie Hebdo incident is certainly bringing out some good writing. Here's another excellent article. It explains some of the cartoons as well as concluding why all that is ridiculous should be ridiculed.

You may well blush girlie 20.14.

I jumped in too quick.

My machine is slow. It takes ages to load a thread this long.

Sorry!!!!

WHAT?!!!!!!! you're a Methodist and you don't know that the Wesleys wrote loads of hymns?

x post jingl!!