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Jan 16 2015 : Mirror (Bangalore) Charb `dragged staff to death': Mag founder PARIS   Roussel wrote to him saying `he held it against him for publishing such drawings' in 2011 A founder of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has accused its editor, who was killed by masked gunmen last Wednesday, of “dragging the team“ to death by publishing provocative cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed. Henri Roussel, 80, who contributed to the first issue in 1970 when the magazine was known as Hara-Kiri Hebdo, had written to editor Stéphane Charbonnier ­ who goes by the name “Charb“ ­ to say of the divisive drawings: “I really hold it against you.“ Referring to the editor's decision to print a drawing of Prophet Mohamed on the front cover in 2011, Roussel ­ who publishes under the pen name Delfeil de Ton ­ wrote in this week's French magazine Nouvel Obs: “What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?“, The Telegraph reported. The cover of the magazine consisted of a drawing of Prophet Mohamed, which said “100 lashes of the whip if you don't die laughing!“ under a banner saying “Charia Hebdo“ in reference to Sharia law. Soon afterwards, the magazine's offices were burned down in a firebomb attack by arsonists who have not been identified. MORE TO COME Charlie Hebdo is extending its print run to five million copies for the “survivor's issue“ from the normal number of around 60,000. The first print run sold out in hours in France while people queued in long lines to wait their turn to buy copies. Delfeil adds: “I believe that we are fools who took an unnecessary risk.That's it. We think we are invulnerable.For years, decades even, it was a provocation and then one day the provocation turns against us. “He shouldn't have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012.“ An issue a year after the firebomb attacks showed the Prophet in a wheelchair saying “You must not mock“. Another cartoon inside the magazine depicted him without clothes. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, and another man Amedy Coulibaly, were shot dead at the end of a three-day siege after they murdered a total of 17 people in Paris and they were reportedly heard shouting “we have avenged Prophet Mohamed!“ A video purportedly from al-Qaeda in Yemen said it planned the attack. However, the claims made by the magazine's founder angered Charlie Hebdo lawyer Richard Malka, who has worked for the publication for the past 22 years. He told Mathieu Pigasse, one of the owners of Nouvel Obs and Le Monde: “Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him.“ TURKISH WEEKLY REFUSES TO SOFTEN SATIRICAL BITE ISTANBUL Vilified by conservatives at home for standing by Charlie Hebdo after the Paris attacks, a Turkish satirical weekly is defiantly refusing to tone down its biting mockery of authority. Leman magazine has remained critical throughout the decade the Islamic-rooted authorities led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been in power, so there was no reason why they would keep silent in the face of the killing of 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo by Islamist gunmen. The magazine, which published a joint issue with Charlie Hebdo in 2002, is one of three leading satirical magazines in Turkey along with Penguen and Uykusuz in a surprisingly crowded market. It brought out a special edition on Monday featuring on its cover a picture of slain cartoonist Georges Wolinski drawing in the yard of Istanbul's famed Eyup Sultan Mosque wearing an Islamic cap. “Our master and big brother, a cham pion of peace and freedom, a philosopher, cartoonist Georges Wolinski...“ read the caption of the picture, which Wolinski had given to Leman cartoonists as a gift. The cover also features the pictures of four other cartoonists killed last week by the two Islamist gunmen. In a rare show of solidarity, Leman, Penguen and Uyuksuz came out on Wednesday with identical black covers with the viral slogan “Je suis Charlie“ (I am Charlie). The tributes triggered hate messages on social media threatening violence against Leman, with some users saying it should “draw a lesson“ from the attacks. Zafer Aknar, Leman's managing editor, said that several death threats were phoned into the magazine's office since the attacks, and some “madmen“ even paid them a visit to threaten the staff. “They said they would kill us, chop off our heads and hands and cut us into pieces,“ he said. The Complete Link to this REPORT in the BANGALORE MIRROR https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1658818850057850984#editor/target=post;postID=1742132401674375084 ABUSE& INSULTS" can't be condoned under an'OVERARCHING  UMBRELLA of FREEDOM of SPEECH'! By the way WHY does questioning the veracity of "HOLOCAUST" becomes a CRIME and  is not ALLOWED to be a PART of the "HOLY COW - FREEDOM of SPEECH"? Different YARDSTICKS for DIFFERENT SENSIBILITIES ? OR  a PURE and SIMPLE CASE of SICKENING DOUBLE STANDARDS of RACIST EUROPEANS?