New issue of Charlie Hebdo

[Cartoonist]

From International Business Times:

Isis supporters have called for lone wolf terrorists to target Franco Moroccan cartoonist Zineb el-Rhazoui, who survived the attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last month.

Thousands of supporters of the jihadist group have tweeted under the hashtag translated as #MustKillZinebElRhazouiInRetaliationForTheProphet, reports Vocativ, posting her personal details, pictures of her husband and sister, and a map showing places she had visited taken from her Facebook account, as well as pictures of Isis beheadings.

Money has also been offered in reward for information on her or her husband’s homes or places of work, reports Alyaoum24.com.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Charlie Hebdo staff ponder bittersweet new success after jihadi terror attack

From 8,000 to 200,000 subscribers. Well, then.

Charlie Hebdo staff ponder bittersweet new success after jihadi terror attack

French satirical magazine returns to newsstands with financial future secure and print run 50 times greater than before militant Islamists killed 12 people



A new issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo hits newsstands on Wednesday, with a cover depicting the far-right leader Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, a bishop, a jihadi, a banker and a TV news crew as a rampaging pack of hounds.

In recent days, Charlie Hebdo staff have admitted struggling to come to terms with their new reality after the attack on 7 January which killed 12 people, including the editor, Charb, and some of France’s best-known cartoonists. The magazine is currently operating out of a temporary space in the offices of the daily newspaper Libération, with massive round-the-clock police protection. It is unable to move into a new Paris location until the offices have been bullet-proofed and secured.

Before the attack, Charlie Hebdo had a print run of between 24,000 and 50,000 copies a week and a modest readership. But after a special commemoration edition published after the attacks sold 8m, with queues at newsstands across France, this week’s edition will have a print run of 2.5m. Charlie Hebdo now has 200,000 subscribers, compared with 8,000 before the attacks.

The magazine, which only a few months ago was struggling financially, now faces the question of how to make the most effective use of the donations that have poured in since the attacks, and how to boost its digital presence. Asked in a radio phone-in whether the magazine risked losing its soul, Riss, the new editor, who was injured in the attacks, said: “We have to hold on to the spirit we had before.”

more at: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/24/charlie-hebdo-staff-ponder-bittersweet-new-success-after-jihadi-terror-attack

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Don't be coy. Come on, you can say it out loud.

You know you want to.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Captured the "then a punch awaits him" pope rather well, I think.

[trotsky]

4. +1 n/t

[Fumesucker]

5. Here we go again!

[okasha]

6. So much for stifling a free press.

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Major fail, Al Qaeda.

[edhopper]

8. I thought it was

Al Queda Yemen?

[okasha]

9. You're right. Thanks.

[edhopper]

10. I remembered

At least one was in Yemen.

[Cartoonist]

7. I'm waiting

for some prominent Imam to say they orchestrated the attacks themselves to boost circulation. Putin will back that.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Oh, you don't have to go far from this thread to find someone insinuating just that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026133605#post1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014989137#post1

[mr blur]

12. There sure are a lot of intelligent people around these days.

I mean, if you were running a magazine with a relatively-low circulation, then obviously you'd encourage a bunch of murderous lunatics to slaughter your staff and friends just to get those figures up. It's lucky that we have these smart people around to spot these things.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. People who score really highly on some sort of pattern recognition test.

Clearly this grants them credibility, with their superior insight.