By Arsalan Iftikhar | WashingtonPost.com
November 2, 2011
The office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris was badly damaged by a firebomb early on Wednesday after it had published a spoof issue “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad to salute the electoral victory of an Islamist party in Tunisian elections, according to a report published in the Post. The publication also said hackers had disrupted its Web site.
The French magazine had announced that a special issue for publication was called “Charia Hebdo”; which was a play on the word in French for sharia law. News reports said that a Molotov cocktail had been thrown through a window as the special edition was on its way to the newsstands, as previously scheduled.
The Associated Press quoted Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, as saying that his organization deplores “the very mocking tone of the paper toward Islam and its prophet but reaffirms with force its total opposition to all acts and all forms of violence.”
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