Category: Charlie Hebdo

Iran Shuts Down Cultural Center Over Cartoons Targeting Khamenei

January 5, 2023
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Iran shut down a French cultural center in Tehran over the publication of cartoons published by a French satirical magazine that were deemed offensive. The French Research Foundation, which includes a rich library that is used by Persian-speaking Iranian students and academics, was closed by the Islamic Republic for years, but was reopened during the…

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A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time

August 16, 2022
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Commentary About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed. Stabbed 10 times by a young Muslim living in America, Rushdie is in a hospital, where his prognosis as of this writing is partial paralysis and the loss…

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France Asks Citizens to Leave Pakistan Amid Violent Protests

April 15, 2021
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LAHORE, Pakistan—The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all of its nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country after anti-France violence erupted in the Islamic nation over the arrest of a radical leader. Saad Rizvi was arrested Monday for threatening the government with mass protests if it did not expel French envoy Marc…

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