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Leading U.S. news outlets mostly declined to show controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on Wednesday after suspected Islamist gunmen in Paris killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Online news sources the Daily Beast and Slate published the cartoons, but major U.S. publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the Associated Press, did not. Some said their guidelines call for avoiding publishing images or other material intended at offending religious sensibilities.

“After careful consideration, Times editors decided that describing the cartoons in question would give readers sufficient information to understand today’s story,” New York Times Company spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said

Bill Marimow, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told media, “We will not under any circumstances run the cartoons. The idea of gratuitously insulting tens of millions of Muslim people rather than describing something in words is not a close call.”

Representatives at Reuters, Slate and the Daily Beast did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The Associated Press has a long-standing policy of refraining from using provocative images, spokesman Paul Colford said.

Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is well known for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders of all faiths.

The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices. During the attack, one of the assailants was captured on video outside the building shouting “We have killed Charlie Hebdo. We have avenged the prophet.”

Many Muslims believe it is blasphemous to create pictures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Jihadists online repeatedly warned that the magazine would pay for its ridicule.

The Wall Street Journal’s coverage included a handful of provocative cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, some of them poking fun at major religions including Islam, but none of them depicted Mohammad (PBUH)

“Our global news staff is dedicated to reporting and publishing the news and explaining its context and we will continue to do so, despite today’s horrific events, and in doing so we rededicate ourselves every day to the central values of press freedom,” Gerard Baker, editor in chief of the Journal, said in an emailed statement.

The Associated Press said it cropped a 2012 photo of Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, killed in the attack, to exclude a cartoon of Mohammad on a magazine he held in his hands.
U.S. news media avoid Islam cartoons linked to deadly attack in Paris | Pakistan Today
 
sensible decision.... there is no need to offend billions of Muslims around the globe just to make some people laugh or release your own frustration..
most of the time its just for getting attention and publicity.. big controversy mean big sales
Marketing 101
 
Leading U.S. news outlets mostly declined to show controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on Wednesday after suspected Islamist gunmen in Paris killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Online news sources the Daily Beast and Slate published the cartoons, but major U.S. publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the Associated Press, did not. Some said their guidelines call for avoiding publishing images or other material intended at offending religious sensibilities.

“After careful consideration, Times editors decided that describing the cartoons in question would give readers sufficient information to understand today’s story,” New York Times Company spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said

Bill Marimow, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, told media, “We will not under any circumstances run the cartoons. The idea of gratuitously insulting tens of millions of Muslim people rather than describing something in words is not a close call.”

Representatives at Reuters, Slate and the Daily Beast did not immediately return calls seeking comment. The Associated Press has a long-standing policy of refraining from using provocative images, spokesman Paul Colford said.

Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is well known for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders of all faiths.

The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices. During the attack, one of the assailants was captured on video outside the building shouting “We have killed Charlie Hebdo. We have avenged the prophet.”

Many Muslims believe it is blasphemous to create pictures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Jihadists online repeatedly warned that the magazine would pay for its ridicule.

The Wall Street Journal’s coverage included a handful of provocative cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, some of them poking fun at major religions including Islam, but none of them depicted Mohammad (PBUH)

“Our global news staff is dedicated to reporting and publishing the news and explaining its context and we will continue to do so, despite today’s horrific events, and in doing so we rededicate ourselves every day to the central values of press freedom,” Gerard Baker, editor in chief of the Journal, said in an emailed statement.

The Associated Press said it cropped a 2012 photo of Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, killed in the attack, to exclude a cartoon of Mohammad on a magazine he held in his hands.
U.S. news media avoid Islam cartoons linked to deadly attack in Paris | Pakistan Today
They did the right thing other wise they would have again pissed of 1.5 Billion Muslims west needs to understand Muslims have few red lines and biggest of them is love of RASOOL SAW and his respect and no body should cross that line @gslv and its people like you who are cowards.
 
says who! by doing so they will hurt sentiments of a large community which includes millions of Indian Muslims too. Respecting the limits and avoiding unnecessary trouble is an intelligent thing to do.
 
If you read the article it clearly states
"Some said their guidelines call for avoiding publishing images or other material intended at offending religious sensibilities."
I am not going to defend what happened in France & strongly condemn the murders, but at the same time people need to understand that how many times they have seen a Cartoon of Jesus or any other prophet being published in Muslim countries or have they seen any news paper mocking them... Everyone got the right to express their views, but We are using this freedom of expression thingy in a wrong way...their should be a limit..
RIP the dead ones
 
They did the right thing other wise they would have again pissed of 1.5 Billion Muslims west needs to understand Muslims have few red lines and biggest of them is love of RASOOL SAW and his respect and no body should cross that line @gslv and its people like you who are cowards.
I dont need to respond to @Zarvan, your own countrymen consider you a terrorist sympathizer.
 
sensible decision.... there is no need to offend billions of Muslims around the globe just to make some people laugh or release your own frustration..
most of the time its just for getting attention and publicity.. big controversy mean big sales
Marketing 101
They did the right thing other wise they would have again pissed of 1.5 Billion Muslims west needs to understand Muslims have few red lines and biggest of them is love of RASOOL SAW and his respect and no body should cross that line @gslv and its people like you who are cowards.
says who! by doing so they will hurt sentiments of a large community which includes millions of Indian Muslims too. Respecting the limits and avoiding unnecessary trouble is an intelligent thing to do.
It's O.K. to make satire against other religions but please don't make satire against Islam we are special and totally insecure.

Puh-leaze that's what you three stooges sound like, indirectly supporting the real cowards with guns that made this satire news worthy in the first place. I am sure billions of Muslims around the world would of never heard of the satire if it wasn't for those terrorists.
 
It's O.K. to make satire against other religions but please don't make satire against Islam we are special and totally insecure.

Puh-leaze that's what you three stooges sound like, indirectly supporting the real cowards with guns that made this satire news worthy in the first place. I am sure billions of Muslims around the world would of never heard of the satire if it wasn't for those terrorists.

Stop being a fool. Both are wrong. Offending people belonging to any faith or culture is wrong. Just because other faiths are ridiculed and they don't protest doesn't make it right. Killing people is wrong too. Anyone justifying either is wrong too.
 
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