coffee_rules Posted September 19, 2012 Posted September 19, 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/french-cartoons-inflame-prophet-film-tensions-133108191.html PARIS (AP) A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, brandishing its right to free speech amid global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. The French government ordered its embassies and French schools abroad to close on Friday, the Muslim holy day, as a precautionary measure in about 20 countries. It immediately shut down the French Embassy and the French school in Tunisia, which saw deadly film-related protests at the U.S. Embassy there last week. Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons. "Muhammad isn't sacred to me," he said in an interview at the weekly's offices on the northeast edge of Paris. "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law; I don't live under Quranic law." Charb said he had no regrets and felt no responsibility for any violence. "I'm not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs," he said. "We've had 1,000 issues and only three problems, all after front pages about radical Islam." Mohd is saying "No need to laugh". More people will die in Asia, Middle East now protesting
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