italian earthquake Charlie Hebdo’s latest cartoon depicts Italian earthquake victims as pasta dishes

[WALLONN7]

PARIS — For a moment in time, Charlie Hebdo was a synonym for the universal cause of liberty — specifically, the freedom of the press.

In the aftermath of the January 2015 attacks on the satirical newspaper’s Paris offices — when 12 of its journalists were murdered by two radicalized brothers, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi — the worldwide slogan was “Je Suis Charlie” (“I Am Charlie”). It soon became an empathetic, global movement — with hashtags, profile pictures and banners in the street.

 

[#JeSuisCharlie: Cartoonists react to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris]

 

If the weekly was always provocative and even, to many, offensive — notably publishing images that ridiculed the prophet Muhammad, an absolute taboo in Islam — public opinion from Paris to Palo Alto insisted that the paper had a right to publish whatever it pleased.

But just 18 months after the attack that, in a sense, martyred Charlie Hebdo as an international symbol of press freedom, the newspaper has once again begun to test the faith of those who once defended it.

At issue is a cartoon in the paper’s current issue, about the devastating 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck central Italy last week, a natural disaster that killed nearly 300 people and reduced parts of ancient towns to piles of rubble that are unlikely to be rebuilt anytime soon, if at all.

 

[Italian towns take stock of losses to the region’s cultural heritage]

 

The town hit the hardest, Amatrice, was the home of a famous pasta dish that bears its name: pasta topped with a special sauce made of tomatoes and guanciale ham. Consequently, restaurants in Italy and around the world have been donating proceeds from their sales of bowls of spaghetti all’amatriciana to the earthquake relief effort.

Charlie Hebdo is no stranger to social media. Which is why, for many, seeing the paper's name trend globally on Twitter Friday morning was unsurprising. People quickly pounced on the trend, asking the question "what has happened this time?" "Earthquake Italian style" was the response.

This is not satire anymore, this is pure disrespect for those who lost their lives, I'm disgusted #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/m12Y0ODO42

— alexandra (@alyciaxuality) September 2, 2016

 

In the Charlie Hebdo sketch, under the banner of “Italian Earthquake,” two people — a man and a woman — stand next to a pile of rubble, out of which people's feet are visible. Each is splattered in red — blood, one would think. But then there are the captions.

In a clear allusion to the all’amatriciana connection, each victim represents a different pasta dish: the man, bloody and bandaged, is “tomato sauce penne,” the woman, crusty and burned, is “penne gratin,” and, perhaps worst of all to the critics, the victims in the pile of rubble — under thin layers of stone and blood — are “lasagna.” The blood is in fact tomato sauce, just as the human suffering is in fact spectacle.

Online, hundreds expressed shock and outrage at the cartoon, branding the illustration "disgusting" and "offensive."

Wow #CharlieHebdo, your cartoon on the #earthquake in Central Italy manages to be both disgusting and outrageous. Shame on you, shame on you

— Domenica Pate (@domenica_pate) September 2, 2016

 

#CharlieHebdo They hide themselves behind "satire". Leave your office, come here and stand in front of those people who've lost EVERYTHING.

— Bianca. (@_letmehugharry) September 2, 2016

 

Disrespecting hundreds of people who lost their lives in a disaster is not satire, or funny but it is purely disgusting. #CharlieHebdo

— Mehmet Akduman (@mehmetakduman) September 2, 2016

 

It appears those who were once so proudly "Je Suis Charlie" may have just changed their minds.

 

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My personal quote:

Bunch of idiots!!!

 

 

[SnakeMasteR]

Embarrassing but it still has something good, they don't seem to have changed a bit. ?

[flitox]

this is called black humour so sure it is often of bad taste.

[pc71520]

When Jihadists attacked on Charlie Hebdo,

the rest of the world should have make fun of it?

 

How could they released such a Picture?

Spoiler

 

[flitox]

how could they?? i gave you already the answer.

 

and they made it fun of it themselve after the attack....

[RejZoR]

So many words and I still can't see what is the offensive cartoon...

[WALLONN7]

8 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

So many words and I still can't see what is the offensive cartoon...

 

Pepper in other's eyes is refreshment...

 

[Sylence]

a bunch of people with mental illness, they can't do anything to make a difference, instead they decided to cause anger and laugh at people and be careless. and they always target people who can't defend themselves or if they raise their voice they will be guilty only because they can't stand a moronic society with such people...yeah democracy doesn't allow them to make fun about serious stuff.

[Pequi]

On segunda-feira, 5 de setembro de 2016 at 10:59 AM, saeed_dc said:

democracy doesn't allow them to make fun about serious stuff.

Democracy ? Dictatorships don't allow it either.

"Common decency" or "a minimum of empathy" would be better terms.

[DKT27]

Humanity > Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, personal belief, religious belief and everything as such.

[Sylence]

29 minutes ago, Pequi said:

Democracy ? Dictatorships don't allow it either.

"Common decency" or "a minimum of empathy" would be better terms.

 

you didnt get my point. that bullshit they are laughing at wasn't my point. they don't dare to question something like Holocaust, or hundreds of other things. i don't see your point about talking about dictatorship. you are having dictatorship there? 

[DKT27]

Do not think that these guys are targeting only some specific people. These people are targeting everyone, literally everyone. Just because some things have come forward does not mean that is all they are doing.

 

Otherwise, my comment above pretty much stays here.

[flitox]

but since they don't force you to watch their offending drawings, it's not a fucking problem.

to see them you have to pay for it;

don't like it??

don't buy it! easy!!!

 

and yep if you say you don't like it, they won't come over your house and try to kill you, like plenty of idiots are doing every fucking day.

 

and if you think it's about making fun of people, you missed their point. they only draw what happen during the week, and if an islamist crazyman is doing something crazy, they'll draw a crazy hallah.

and in case you don't know the law of islam only concern muslims, not the fucking world.

 

no drawings about the holocaust?? shit you are wrong

 

or this