New Charlie Hebdo Issue Is Reportedly Full of ‘Crude Sexual Satire’
The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine whose staffers were the target of a deadly terrorist attack last week, will be just as biting and blasphemous as normal, according to a BBC reporter.
“I’ve been into small office where mag put together,” BBC’s foreign correspondent Fergal Keane tweeted. “Copy has 16 pages. Much of it crude sexual satire.”
The magazine’s content, scheduled to hit newsstands tomorrow with a print run of 3 million copies, has a wide range of blasphemy, as is the magazine’s editorial stance. (“We tease everybody,” an editor told Keane). Keane tweeted the following descriptions:
#CharieHebdo I've been given a copy of magazine
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo it features Prophet cartoon and satire on Islamic State.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo Mag also features woman raising burka to reveal naked form.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo There is also crude sexual content on Pope
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharieHebdo Back page says: 25 years of work. terrorists 25 seconds of work
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
He also got a look at their editorial:
#CharlieHebdo 1/3 Editorial in magazine I've seen thanks millions who've shown solidarity.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo 2/2 But mag editorial attacks "pseudo intellectual insinuations" that it was Islamophobic.
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo 3/3 Mag also says that millions who said 'Je Suis Charlie' also said "I am secularist"
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag also says this week that it thanks those who genuinely defend freedom of speech "but rest can go f** themselves."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag strongly criticises those who say "we condemn terrorism but…"
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
#CharlieHebdo Mag says "what made us laugh most this week is that the bells of Notre Dame rang in our honour."
— Fergal Keane (@fergalkeane47) January 13, 2015
[h/t Gawker]
[Image via Charlie Hebdo]
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