Oddly enough, no condemnation of the jihadists who slaughtered the paper’s staff.
Via The Local:
Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday condemned satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for printing a “blasphemous” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as religious groups held rallies throughout the country, including one at which the French flag was burnt.
The parliamentary resolution, which also criticized Western media for reprinting the caricatures, comes a week after the government officially condemned the murder of 12 people at the offices of the weekly on January 7 in Paris as a “brutal terror attack”.
The magazine this week published a “survivors” issue featuring an image of the Prophet Muhammad weeping, which sold out Wednesday before more copies of an eventual print run of five million hit newsstands in France.
“This house strongly condemns (the) printing and reprinting of the blasphemous caricatures… and also takes serious note of the continued trend of their reproduction in numerous other newspapers and magazines of other Western capitals,” the resolution said.
“This house genuinely believes that freedom of expression should not be misused as a means to attack or hurt public sentiments and religious beliefs,” it added.
