Firebombed French Magazine Reprints Mohammed Images

Firebomb our office once, shame on you. Firebomb it twice...

Charlie Hebdo, the French satire magazine that was firebombed for printing an image of the Prophet Mohammed, has printed the same image again – as well as a handful of other caricatures of the Islamic figure despite more threats. The original magazine was "guest-edited" by Mohammed, and carried a picture of the prophet on its cover with a speech bubble saying "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!," but en francais, bien sur. The images prompted someone to throw a firebomb through the window of Charlie Hebdo's offices on Wednesday. The new issue is a four-page supplement included in today's copies of the left-wing newspaper Liberation. Among the cartoons is one of Mohammed trying to hold down his billowing robes a la Marilyn Monroe in Seven Year Itch. Depictions of Mohammed are forbidden in Islam, a tenet that led to a Danish newspaper receiving death threats for printing a handful of comics of the prophet back in 2005.