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In reply to the discussion: If "Charlie Hebdo" is satire, could someone please explain to me how this cover [View all]Mass
(27,315 posts)Well, there are a lot of things I still do not understand about America even after 14 years here. So, may be you may want to look at more than ONE cover to judge a paper.
Sometimes, Charlie Hebdo is too edgy, but if this is not hate speech, except if the hate speech is against ALL RELIGIONS. You will find covers like that attacking Christian extremists or Jewish extremisms.
It is clear French people have a long tradition of disrespect concerning religion institutions and their hypocrisies and that this may rub the ultra religious US the wrong way, but this is in the perfect tradition of Voltaire attacking the Catholic Church (in Candide, for example). Just a little more graphic, but not hate speech.
BTW, the satire is against extremists, not Muslim people. The title is "Killing in Egypt" and is in fact attacking both the military government and the Muslim Brotherhood.