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Charlie Hebdo is at it Again
by Baron Bodissey https://www.legal-project.org/4148/charlie-hebdo-is-at-it-again The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to controversy. It has got itself in trouble in the past by printing cartoons of Mohammed (including some of a naked prophet), and last year published a comic book chronicling the life of Mohammed. Its publisher was prosecuted (and acquitted) for some of those Motoons, and the magazine's editorial offices were firebombed. Charlie Hebdo's latest cover illustration takes a poke at the current mayhem in Egypt: The main text reads:
There is a further pun on the word balles (bullets), which is roughly equivalent to the British slang term "bollocks". Americans would probably use "bull***t" in the same circumstances. And all this on the first day of Ramadan! What calumny! Needless to say, massive steaming piles of opprobrium are being heaped on Charlie Hebdo by the usual suspects. According to ANSAmed:
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