The controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is once again tackling a controversial issue as it blasted the terrorists involved in the recent Paris terror attacks, telling the perpetrators that God hates terrorists.
According to The Christian Post, the magazine already suffered from a terror attack earlier this year after it mocked Islam's prophet Mohammad with a cartoon representation of him, which is forbidden in Islam. In its latest issue, the magazine came up with illustrations admonishing the Islamic State (ISIS) and saying that if God exists, He would surely hate terror.
Cartoonist Joann Sfar shared 12 illustrations on his Instagram page (@joannsfar) over the weekend tackling the tragedy that occurred last Friday when ISIS gunmen and suicide bombers killed 129 civilians.
Sfar writes in one image that the attackers are "lovers of death" who "have already lost, on Earth as in Heaven."
In another image, Sfar writes: "Terrorism is not an enemy. Terrorism is a way of acting. Repeating 'we are at war' without finding the courage to name our enemies gets us nowhere. Our enemies are those who love death. Under various guises, they have always been there. History forgets them quickly. And Paris dies."
Charlie Hebdo has come under fire repeatedly for the way it pokes fun of religious faith, particularly Islam. When it showed a cartoon seemingly mocking ISIS destroying a Russian airliner last October, which caused the deaths of 224 people, the Russian government was infuriated.
Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov described their illustrations as "pure blasphemy," saying that "this has nothing to do with democracy, self-expression or whatever."
Even American evangelist Franklin Graham believes that the publication is pushing all the wrong buttons. "The magazine's editor said they were a secular, atheist newspaper and that 'the term blasphemy has no meaning for us,'" Graham said. "I have news for them — it means something to the rest of the world and it means something to all those whose lives have been forever changed by that tragic crash. Charlie Hebdo was wrong in mocking Islam and they're wrong now."
