The French satirical magazine has once again come under fire for its provocative comic strips. The drawing by artist Pierrick Juin showed teetering buildings amid heaps of rubble with the caption: “No need to send tanks.” Social media users said the cartoon mocked the tragedy that impacted millions of people across two countries and called the drawing “disgusting”, “shameful”, “revolting” …
The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to take revenge against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that have been deemed “insulting” by Tehran, an Al Arabiya report said. “You have made a big mistake, but sooner or later Muslims will take revenge, and you may arrest the avengers, …
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Given the falling readership of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, France seems much less keen to embrace biting satirical humour than it initially appeared back in 2015. By Jonathan Ervine After the terror attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, 2015 left 12 people dead, many declared “Je suis Charlie” in solidarity. People who …
On January 19 this year, pro-AAP propaganda video blogger Dhruv Rathee had uploaded a video on his Youtube channel to explain how politicians circumvent difficult questions asked in TV debates. Politicians of all ideologies and parties use the logical fallacies like strawman argument, slippery slope, circular argument, red herring etc, but the video implied that only BJP politicians indulge in …