Charlie Hebdo is just tempting fate again
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Those guys at Charlie Hebdo know well what happened to Salman Rushdie in 1988 and the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005 when it published cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad, which led to violent protests around the world with more tha
Worse, Charlie Hebdo’s latest cover shows a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying, “I am Charlie.”
In France it is believed that one might face bad luck for having 13 people at a dinner table, putting a loaf of bread on a table upside down, lighting three cigarettes with one match, or stepping in dog doo-doo with your right foot (as if left foot won’t make a mess).
Just think of mocking Muhammad as one such superstition. Leave him alone!
Somsak Pola
