No more Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) comics, says Charlie Hebdo editor

Laurent Sourisseau's statement comes six months after an attack on magazine's office in Paris which left 16 dead

Six months after an attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, editor of the French satirical magazine has said he will no longer draw comics of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

"We have drawn Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to defend the principle that one can draw whatever they want. It is a bit strange though, we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to," Laurent Sourisseau said, during an interview with the Hamburg-based news magazine Stern.

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Souriseau’s statement comes six months after his magazine’s office came under a deadly attack that left 16 people dead.

However, Souriseau’s claimed that the magazine had done what it set out to do. “We’ve done our job. We have defended the right to caricature."

"We still believe that we have the right to criticise all religions," the editor said.

Further, the magazine’s editor, who owns 40 per cent of the company’s shares added, "The mistakes you could blame Islam for can be found in other religions."

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Sourisseau survived the deadly terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7 by playing dead.

Recalling the tragic event, the editor said: “When it was over, there was no sound. No complaints. No whining. That is when I understood that most were dead.”

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The deadly attack led by the militant Kouachi brothers in January left 16 dead after they raided the offices of Charlie Hebdo and took hostages at a kosher supermarket on the outskirts of Paris. The victims of the attack included the magazine’s late editor Stephane Charbonnier, nicknamed ‘Charb’.

This article originally appeared on Deutsche Welle.