FRENCH magazine Charlie Hebdo has reprinted the blasphemous cartoons, and the French government is silent because it considers these caricatures ‘freedom of expression’, although it is an open ridicule of another religion, in this case, Islam.

While the Christian community in Europe allows and tolerates those who make blasphemous images or jokes about their prophets, this is not the case with the Muslim world as this is a sensitive issue for them.

Owing to migration and a high birth rate in Muslim families, the Muslim population is growing in Europe. For this reason the French government should be sensitive about cartoon that hurt the sentiments of a large section of France’s population.

Name withheld on request
Islamabad

Published in Dawn, September 10th, 2020