Satire Mag Burned For Muhammad Cartoon

American Voices

Satire Mag Burned For Muhammad Cartoon

November 4, 2011 | ISSUE 47•44

Hours before publishing a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo had its offices firebombed. What do you think?

Maybe if cartoonists depicted Muhammad as a little better-looking, Muslims would stop being so outraged.

Meagan Vicks
Chief Forager
I’ll have to reserve judgment until I read the actual article.

Stanley Meadows
Threat
Can't Carla Bruni’s beauty step in to arbitrate?

Jill Hargreaves
Equity Taster

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