MIDDLE EAST FORUM
by Raheem Kassam
July 17, 2015

The editor of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has declared that he will not publish any more cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, just six months after the Islamist terrorist attack on the magazine that killed 11 civilians and one police officer. Speaking to the Hamburg-based Stern, Laurent Sourisseau, the cartoonist and publishing editor who took a gunshot to the shoulder in the attacks, said, “We’ve done our job. We have defended the right to caricature.” Some may view the magazine’s new approach as a capitulation to the radical Islamist terrorists demanding censorship in fealty to their fundamentalist ideals. The fact is that images of the Prophet Mohammed have been commonplace throughout Islam’s history. READ MORE