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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]arthritisR_US
(7,283 posts)is humour used to criticize something/someone or group and it has to have the element of truth to it.
For many non Muslims the Koran is shit. They know nothing of its teachings and so when they hear that it says non believers should be killed, women must be covered from head to toe and subjugated to the whims of men and the never ending jihad, well I can understand their feelings.
More Muslims are dying from the bullets and and beheadings done by fundamentalist Muslims. So far their Koran hasn't stopped this or protected them.
So this magazine is poking fun at the above and they have elements of truth on their side. However, I'm not certain the humour is there but for some it may be.
No matter how much something or someone offends another that does not give them the right to violently lash out. Protest the magazine, boycott them but to go in and committ mass murder may have just proved the point, to some, the cartoons were making