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Satirical website remains offline after death threats
The website of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which published a controversial Arab Spring issue this week with the prophet Mohammed as guest "editor", was offline Thursday due to death threats against its Belgian hosting company.
AFP - The website of the French satirical weekly that was firebombed after publishing images of the Prophet Mohammed was offline Thursday because of death threats against the Belgian company hosting it.
Host Bluevision took Charlie Hebdo's site offline after it was the victim of a cyberattack following Wednesday's issue featuring Mohammed as "guest editor" and has remained offline after the company received death threats.
Bluevision "doesn't want to put it back online (because) they received death threats," charliehebdo.fr's editor Valerie Manteau told AFP.
"Either the police reassure them and we manage to convinced them to put it back online, or we change host."
Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices were firebombed early Wednesday after it published a special Arab Spring edition with Mohammed on the cover as "guest editor" saying: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!"
The newspaper's website was also hacked, with its regular home page replaced with a photo of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a message reading: "No god but Allah".
French news site nouvelobs.com said the cyberattack was carried out by Turkish hacker group Akincilar, which said it took the action to "fight against a publication that attacks beliefs and moral values."
Manteau said that Charlie Hedbo's Facebook page would soon be closed to outside comments after thousands vented their anger over the weekly's "Sharia Hebdo" edition, including by making death threats.
"Police are collecting the data of those who have posted death threats," said Manteau. "As soon as they've finished, we will close the comments page."
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Comments (9)
Reason and free speech must prevail
I am glad to hear that the staff of Charlie Hebdo will not allow the hatred and violence to stop them. Unfortunately, there are many verses in the Koran preaching violence against infidels, as in verse 5:33 - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive to spread corruption on earth, that they be killed or crucified, or have cut their hands and feet opposite or are expelled. That is their disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter, there will be a great punishment for them"
I'm backing Charlie Hebdo
It is actions like this and the many in the past which helps to ignite the distrust of Muslims and leads to questions on what they are going to do next in the world. Instead of uniting people around the world these people are doing the exact opposite. It is a pity that these lunatics don't stand up for their own people in Iran.
satire...
If ever a group invited satire it just has to be Islam.
The unbelievable degree to which it's adherents are indoctrinated, so that they dare not even say or do anything that can be thought of as a slight to the religion, it's rule book or it's founder, is so ridiculous as to defy any sort of intellect in their minds, or logic, when viewed by those who are not of the cult.
What the Muslims do not comprehend is, their whole concept is a pantomime, their literature fundamentally poisonous, and their revered founder the biggest joke ever created.
The whole thing is nothing but a total fabrication, and if not as stupidly funny as it is, would be simply sad.
It is so damned bad in fact they have a lot of misplaced, certainly unwelcome to the rest of us, insularity, not to say insolence in their construct.
The more the responsible media publishes in the same vein as the burnt out magazine, the sooner Islam will be placed where it should be located, just another failed enterprise on the mental health of the world's peoples.
Mohammed was nothing but a womanising wife beating , paedophile, with nothing but desert sand between his eras and toes.
Omar Khayam had it right.
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
More than enough philosophy for any person, INCLUDING any Muslim
THE CURSE OF ISLAM
What do we expect from unreasonable creatures of the Dark Ages. Communism under Stalin and Nazism under Hitler pale into insignificance by comparison. Sad!
satire and mohammed
It does not say much for the maturity of the muslim militants that they can't tolerate a little fun poked at their illustrious leader,blessed be his name.
I beleive it to be rude to
I beleive it to be rude to mock another religion, when the followers of that religion dont appreciate mockery BUT at the same time those followers have no right to threatenthe publishers with violence of any kind in a civlized society.
I am an atheist by the way,so I favour no religion.
Hurray for Charlie Hebdo!
Thank God that there are those willing to stand up to the lunatic Islamic fundamentalists that would do such an insane thing as firebomb a newspaper office for printing a cartoon.
THIS is why the world must stand up against religious fundamentalists of ANY stripe.
Here is the truth:
Imam Quote:
"If I'm not Muslim, I would have also fear of Islam."
Satirical website remains offline after death threats
Yet another knee jerk reaction from the Islamic extremists. Whatever happened to reason, dialogue and a sense of humour? Why is it that their religion is all encompassing, excluding everything else that makes life exciting, rewarding and well, fun? Must be a very lonely and empty existence.
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