18 Months After Charlie Hebdo Killings, Magazine Again Gets Death Threats For Publishing Naked Muslim Cartoon

French newspaper Charlie Hebdo has a simple mission - make fun of everyone and everything. No one is spared - Catholics, Muslims, Jews, pop culture personalities and the government. ?In an attack that could be seen as the debut of modern Islamic terror in France, 12 of Charlie Hebdo members were gunned down during a weekly editorial meeting in January last year.

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Now, after they have published cartoon of naked Muslims on its cover, staff of the magazine have reportedly received threats warning of new attacks.

The new cover (10 August 2016) shows a cartoon of a bearded man and a veil covered woman on a beach with exposed genitals

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The caption reads “The reform of Islam. Muslims, loosen up” (“Musulmans de-coin-cez-vous”).

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The magazine’s staff received a single sentence threat: “You will die,” Le Parisien reported.?

Charlie Hebdo’s co-shareholder, Eric Portheault has spoken about filing a formal police complaint, adding that death threats have been ongoing since summer: “it does not stop.” The weekly has received almost 60 “chilling” messages and insults on its Facebook page. The staff today works under police protection after the January 2016 attacks, in revenge for cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

Threats on the weekly magazine had increased in frequency since they openly declared Prophet Muhammed as their editor-in-chief. Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier), the editor of the magazine till he was gunned down in the attacks, was already on the most wanted list of Al-Qaeda organisations for his anti-Islamic writings.

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