Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“One decade ago this week, two gunmen entered the offices of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire, killing cartoonists, journalists, and security personnel as part of coordinated terror attacks that would ultimately claim 17 lives. The attack on the magazine — which is now commemorating the 10th anniversary with a God cartoon contest — was likely due to its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. In the immediate aftermath, proverbial battle lines were drawn around the contentious magazine and the legal and social rules around what we can, without punishment or retribution, say about religious symbols, holy figures, and their believers. … amidst the shifting legal and moral boundaries since 2015, the advocates of limiting our right to religious dissent are gaining ground.” (01/06/24)
https://www.thefire.org/news/decade-after-charlie-hebdo-killings-we-are-still-failing-blasphemers