A French satirical magazine published nude cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed Wednesday, a move that could further inflame tensions after violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film.
The cover of Charlie Hebdo shows a Muslim in a wheelchair being pushed by an Orthodox Jew under the title "Intouchables 2", referring to an award-winning French film about a poor black man who helps an aristocratic quadriplegic.
Another cartoon on the back page of the weekly magazine show a naked turbaned Mohammed exposing his posterior to a film director, a scene inspired by a 1963 film starring French film star Brigitte Bardot.
Presumably the message contained in the Charlie Hebdo cover cartoon is that satirists should have the right to abuse Jews as well as Muslims. I suppose this does at least have the merit of avoiding the hypocritical argument that Islamophobia is more acceptable than antisemitism.
Update: See "Muslims decry French Mohammad cartoons as new insult", Reuters, 19 September 2012
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