Turkish Daily Braves Islamist Wrath In Republishing Charlie Cartoons

But the @nytimes, @cnn, @ap, and @nbcnews can't publish them, you see, because their lives might be in danger.

Oh, and I guess this Turkish daily hates Muslims or something.

A leading Turkish daily on Wednesday printed excerpts from the first issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo since Islamist gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on its offices, defying a growing outcry in the Islamic world.

The daily Cumhuriyet, which strongly opposes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was the sole publication in a majority Muslim country to reproduce cartoons and articles from the special Charlie Hebdo issue.

Cairo's Al-Azhar university, Sunni Islam's most prestigious centre of learning, had warned that new cartoons will only serve to "stir up hatred" while there was also an angry reaction from Iran and Islamic State (IS) jihadists.

Along with a Charlie Hebdo editorial about how it would not give into the attacks, the excerpts in Cumhuriyet included cartoons satirising Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram and IS.

Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Utku Cakirozer described the printing of the four-page pull-out as a display of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, recalling that several reporters from his paper had been murdered in the past.

Man, I can't wait to see the Sharia Compliant Media bukake each other with Courage awards.

posted by Ace at 03:06 PM

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