BEIRUT: Hezbollah on Wednesday denounced French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over a new cartoon depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad on the cover page of its first issue published since last week's attack on its Paris office.
“Hezbollah condemns the new dangerous insult in Charlie Hebdo magazine’s issue released Wednesday morning,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
“The cartoons insult the Prophet Mohammad ..., Islam, [other] religious and all human sanctities in general.”
The party last week also condemned the deadly attacks in Paris when Islamists gunned down several cartoonists at the paper for publishing cartoons insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
On Friday Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the extremists and fundamentalists insult Islam more than the drawings themselves.
The attack, carried out by two French brothers of Algerian origin, led to the deaths of 12 people including the publisher and editor in chief of the paper, and a policeman.
However, the "survival" issue that the magazine printed Wednesday received wide opposition from Islamic authorities, after it showed a cartoon of the prophet holding a sign saying “Je suis Charlie,” or "I am Charlie," after the solidarity slogan that went viral in response to the attack.
“This act ... cannot be justified under any circumstances that the perpetrators of this despicable act hide behind,” Hezbollah said in its Wednesday statement.
The party said publishing the cartoons again aimed to “provoke the feelings of more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world,” adding that such moves directly contribute to supporting terrorism and extremism.
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