Tribune South Asia
Student of the Year: Alia Bhatt See page 18
Year 2
Issue 10
Thursday, 20.09.12
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Islamophobia reached its peak?
Now French mag publishes more caricatures of Prophet Mohammed(pbuh) Offices of magazine guarded by riot police French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s publisher, known only as Charb, presents to journalists, on September 19, 2012 in Paris.
late Tuesday.
Free speech or incitement?
After a week of deadly, international protests against an anti-Islam film, a French satirical magazine is fueling the debate between freedom of expression and offensive provocation. The magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons featuring a figure resembling the Prophet Mohammed in an issue that hit newsstands Wednesday. The cartoons are already drawing strong condemnation by the French Muslim community. Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of Muslim Faith, described a feeling of “indignation against this new Islamophobic act” to BFM-TV.
He said the cartoons are “insulting for the prophet of Islam,” and described their publication as a “new provocation.”
French authorities have already taken precautionary measures, with police vehicles parked outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo
France announced it would close embassies and schools in around 20 countries, fearing violence. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published the caricatures on Wednesday, saying the illustrations would “shock those who will want to be shocked.” Nude illustrations of Mohammed were included among the various caricatures in the release. Meanwhile, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Parisian kiosks sold out all copies of the magazine almost as soon as it hit the shelves. Charlie Hebdo’s website went down soon after the issue was published. Security was beefed up and riot police deployed at the Magazine’s offices in anticipation of retaliatory protests. Paris also announced that it would be closing its Continued on page 31 >>
First Robin Cook revealed the Falsehood Of Al Qaeda & Now
Al-Qaeda a ‘creation of the US and Britain’: MP George Galloway Late British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook who revealed the Falsehood Of Al Qaeda A Month Before his mysterious death . Robin Cook died suddenly, of a convenient heart attack while on a country stroll with his wife. He was whisked away to hospital by helicopter without his wife, who was not permitted to accompany him, although he was still alive. Robin Cook wrote in the Guardian, published on July 8: Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental
miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, Continued on page 31 >>