Top Story on Google News: Charlie Hebdo mocks Muhammad, #JeSuisCharlie on comeback cover

[oberliner]

Goes to the story at this link:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/charlie-hebdo-mocks-muhammad-jesuischarlie-on-comeback-cover-2015-01-13

I ask - how the heck does the current Charlie Hebdo cover mock Muhammad?

That seems to be a ridiculous title for their article.

[bravenak]

1. It doesn't seem very mocking to me.

Just shows Muhammed in solidarity with the murdered. He's crying. I'm crying.

[oberliner]

2. That's what I think as well

It seems to be the opposite of mocking.

[okaawhatever]

3. It doesn't say the cover mocked Muhammad. It only says it mocked Muhammad, perhaps that

part is inside the magazine. It says #JeSuisCharlie is on the cover. Perhaps the headline is misleading (you know, click bait)

[oberliner]

4. Yes it does

Now the often-caustic publication, faced with the challenge of reconciling its new status as a cause célèbre with its reflex to mock, ridicule and offend, is putting a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover of what is likely to be their most-read issue ever.

[okaawhatever]

5. I would argue that sentence does not say the mocking ridiculing or offending is on

the cover. It seems to be two separate thoughts. One is that the publication "with its reflex to mock, ridicule and offend"=first thought.

second thought="is putting a cariacture...of Muhammad".

To me they say the publication is known to mock and ridicule, and has a caricature of Muhammad on its cover. It does not say they are mocking Muhammad on the cover (unless you assume that the caricature is mocking in and of itself.)

Seems to me like they're splitting hairs with the difference, I think they want people to believe the cover is mocking Muhammad so they will click to see the photo. Just my opinion, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I would say the headline claims they mock both Muhammad and #JeSuisCharlie, on their cover

The notable thing about the cover is not that it includes 'JeSuisCharlie'; it's that it depicts Muhammad. It's not very believable that the way that headline is intended to be parsed as "Charlie Hebdo mocks Muhammad" and "#JeSuisCharlie on comeback cover"; I think it's "Charlie Hebdo mocks Muhammad and #JeSuisCharlie on comeback cover".

I don't think it does mock Muhhamad; it depicts him.

[HereSince1628]

7. How does one know it's Muhhamad?

The iconography around depictions of Jesus can include things like a halo and/or a crown of thorns...things that in Christian tradition have clear connections.

I don't know enough about Islam to have an idea of what would serve as particularly unique identifiers of Muhhamad.

Suggestions?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The cartoonist says so:

The terrorists were once kids, they drew like us, like all kids, then one day they perhaps lost their sense of humour, perhaps their child soul able to see the world from a bit of a distance, because that’s Charlie – being able to draw the world from a small distance. So I drew saying to myself: “I am Charlie”. That was my idea but it wasn’t enough.

The only idea left was to draw Mohammed, I am Charlie. Then I looked at him, he was crying. Then above, I wrote: “All is forgiven”, and then cried. We had the front page, we had finally found this bloody front page. This was our front page.

This was not the front page the world wanted us to draw, it was our front page.

This is not the front page that the terrorists want us to draw, as there are no terrorists in it, just a man who cries: it’s Mohammed. I am sorry that we drew him again, but the Mohammed we drew is a Mohammed who is crying above all.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11343077/How-I-created-the-Charlie-Hebdo-magazine-cover-cartoonist-Luzs-statement-in-full.html

[HereSince1628]

10. Thanks...I had seen the cover days ago and there was no ID

provided there as far as I could tell.

And that made me wonder what is iconic in the depiction to make that ID.

[leftynyc]

9. I'm pretty sure

even printing a cartoon of Muhammad (any image of the prophet) is forbidden to the crazies. It doesn't even have to say anything. Just the pic is apparently insult enough.

[oberliner]

11. Interested to see the general reaction

From across the world.

[leftynyc]

15. Watching CNN early Wed morning

they're showing very long lines of people trying to get their hands on a copy. I wouldn't mind having a copy although I wont be waiting in any lines for it. I heard a rumor it's going to have an English edition - do you know anything about that?

[PeaceNikki]

12. I thought this was quite sincere

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4322086.ece

Full story at the right wing rag: http://nypost.com/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-cartoonist-says-new-cover-a-call-for-forgiveness/

[oberliner]

13. NY Post is a right-wing tabloid

Just as a heads up.

[PeaceNikki]

14. updated as to not distract.

[Albertoo]

16. It's not mocking muhamad, it's even rather nice.

It makes the assumption the inventor of islam would have cried over blasphemers.

A stretch of the imagination based on his track record in real life.

(even at his start in Medina, one of his followers killed a poet for making fun of muhamad)