‘Disgusting’: Charlie Hebdo, mocking earthquake victims, sparks fury
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French satirical magazine scoffs at the trouble of Turkey and Syria
A new scandal erupted over an inappropriate cartoon in Charlie Hebdo magazine about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. The French satirical publication has once again come under fire for its provocative comics.
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo sparked outrage on social media after it published a cartoon mocking the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed thousands in Turkey and Syria.
A drawing by the artist Pierric Jouin depicted rickety buildings amidst rubble, with the caption: “Don’t send tanks.”
According to Al Jazeera, social media users said that the cartoon mocked the tragedy that affected millions of people in the two countries, and called the drawing “disgusting”, “shameful”, “disgusting” and akin to “hate speech”.
A woman named Sarah Assaf reacted to the cartoon by saying that she was ending her support for the magazine. “Je ne suis plus Charlie” (I am not Charlie anymore), she wrote, referring to the “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) slogan that became popular after the Charlie Hebdo Paris office attack on January 7, 2015. On that day, two brothers who claimed to be members of al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) opened fire on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical weekly, killing 12 people in retaliation for caricatures of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad.
The bloody terrorist attack on the magazine then prompted a general display of solidarity with France, as well as a debate about what constitutes freedom of speech.
“We were with you during your pain. What we are now experiencing is a disaster for humanity!” one netizen reacts to a new earthquake cartoon before concluding, “No, this is not humor.”
The American Muslim scholar Omar Suleiman stressed: “The mockery of the deaths of thousands of Muslims is the pinnacle of how France has dehumanized us in every way.”
Some users pointed out how Turks staged support marches after the 2015 attack, rallying around the “Je suis Charlie” campaign, only to receive what many today see as contempt in response.
Political analyst Oznur Küçüker Siren addressed the magazine on Twitter. “Even the Turks were in Charlie Hebdo to share your grief, and today you dare to mock the suffering of an entire nation. It really takes a little bit of courage to do this while there are still children under the rubble waiting to be rescued,” she said.
One user claims that the cartoon showed the “true spirit” of Charlie Hebdo, while another believes that “Islamophobia is the paper’s only source of income.”
The cartoon even prompted a response from Ibrahim Kalin, the press secretary of the Turkish president. “Modern barbarians! he tweeted. “Suffocate in your hatred and resentment.”
Some Charlie Hebdo supporters have tried to defend the caricature, calling it “satire” and arguing that it should be taken in its “context”.
Newspaper headline:
The smell of death is everywhere
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