Meanwhile, the Iranian Shargh Daily tweeted a photo that included the same cover, uncensored. Shargh Daily didn’t run any of the cartoons in their print edition. They are also based in a country with no right to free speech that has special security forces dedicated to policing religious adherence and regularly detains journalist. The New York Daily News isn’t.
As you see, the photo tweeted, of one of the Charlie Hebdo staffers holding the cover, is the same one that several Western outlets cropped.
Yet this cover does not depict Mohammed, which is supposedly what offends some Muslim. It is a commentary aiming at the perceived special status Muslims, and Jews, have in France when it comes to being subjects of satire. They are “untouchable.” The Daily News, which previously published a list of legal gun owners in New York City, seems to agree.
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