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Are the Charlie Hebdo cartoons needlessly provocative?

Are new cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo needlessly provocative? The editor is quoted as saying the caricatures will "shock those who want to be shocked".

Are new cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo needlessly provocative? The editor is quoted as saying the caricatures - several of which depict Muhammad naked - will "shock those who want to be shocked". The French Foreign Minister has criticised them as a provocation, following a week of global protests against an anti-Muslim film. What do you think of the decision to publish them?

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Wed 19 Sep 2012 11:05GMT
主播大秀 World Service Online

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