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FRENCH SATIRICAL WEEKLY Charlie Hebdo said today it was pressing charges after receiving fresh death threats over a cartoon of the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan who faces rape allegations.
The provocative magazine, which suffered a deadly jihadist attack in 2015 after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, depicted Ramadan with a huge erection in its edition last Wednesday, saying: “I am the sixth pillar of Islam.”
The Swiss academic, an Oxford professor and conservative Islamic intellectual in France, has been accused of rape by two women after the Harvey Weinstein scandal unleashed a wave of sexual abuse accusations worldwide.
Ramadan, 55, has furiously denied the accusations as a “campaign of lies launched by my adversaries”.
“Rape,” reads the caption on Charlie Hebdo’s cover. “The defence of Tariq Ramadan.”
Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau, the magazine’s editor, said the threats and hate mail had “never really stopped” after the January 2015 jihadist attack in which 12 people were gunned down at its offices.
“Sometimes there are peaks when we receive explicit death threats on social media — this has been the case once again,” he told Europe 1 radio.
“It’s always difficult to know if these are serious threats or not, but as a principle, we take them seriously and press charges.”
The shooting at Charlie Hebdo was claimed by Al-Qaeda, with the jihadists notably seeking to punish the staunchly atheist magazine for printing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, forbidden in Islam.
The attack was the first in a wave of jihadist attacks in France over the past two years that have left more than 240 people dead.
Charlie Hebdo has continued to court controversy since the attack, notably with cartoons after the Barcelona attack and others that made light of an Italian earthquake that killed nearly 300 people.
The five pillars of Islam are the five basic practices obligatory for believers: faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
A minority of Sunni scholars considers jihad — or holy struggle, which can have different meanings — to be the sixth pillar of Islam.
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Do these surveys not take into account the big bills? Such as gas, oil, petrol or electricity.
They are the bills that keep me in the red and they are not going down!
And mortgage bill too! Doh..
The CPI is down 0.4% for prices in November however we are still 0.8% above what prices were at this point last year. Here’s the full report.
Cheers Sean.
The cost of housing, heating, electricity and other fuels have risen.
I don’t really care if a bag of apples went down by 5cent when my gas bill is higher than I ever remember.
its not going down people are spending less because thy don’t have it. end of.
Cost of living going down WHERE
Wages going south aswell with increased prsi…
Wait until the property tax hits in!!!!…I cant believe people are moaning about a €10 a month for some kids allownace….ITS THE PROPERTY TAX WHICH IS GOING TO DO THE MOST DAMAGE TO FAMILIES….WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! AND START TO PROTEST THIS UNJUST TAX!!…you are going to get hit with more tax in water charges as well… & pretty soon they will own YOU and your FAMILY and your HOUSE if you dont do anything about it….WAKE UP!!
Nope children’s allowance is bigger for me. 3 kids means €38 per month or 450 odd a year. That’s on top of the 480 I lost last year.
Actually the prsi change is costing nearly as much as the property tax (avg figure).
The price of tobacco fell by 20% on Moore street last year
Has the Author of this article been asleep for the past six years??
Thomas these people are not asleep its called deception they keep telling you that it is raining while they p—- all over yuo
No, the author of this article has not been asleep for the last six years. (Though, on average, I’d say if you added it up I’ve been asleep for a little under two years out of the last six.)
Rubbish
I must be living in another country ! Every time I go to the shops for food there are price increases abet for only a few cents at a time . But added up on a lot of products this all adds up ! There are of course ‘special offers’ but in my experience the cut of these prices is added to different products around the store !
I don’t know what the idiots who did this survey are living on – fresh air? I wasn’t asked…no way has the cost gone down!?!?
Leave it out!!!!!!
Highest purchasing power… That means given our net tax income and cost of living we are materially better off than all of Europe excluding Luxembourg and the Netherlands… Interesting and no wonder they’re annoyed with this constant whining how we are squeezed to the limit….we must seem like a nation of hypocrites.
the cost of living has gone down and diminished to an all time low in this generations time
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