Charlie Hebdo Attack: Satirical French Magazine Done With Prophet Mohammed Cartoons

The editor of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo said that the publication would no longer draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Laurent Sourisseau said in an interview with German newsweekly Stern that the magazine had done its job. "We've done our job. We have defended the right to caricature," he said, according to DW.

"We have drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever they want. It is a bit strange though: we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to," Sourisseau said.

"The mistakes you could blame Islam for can be found in other religions," he said while rejecting claims that Charlie Hebdo is "possessed" with the Islam religion, according to The Washington Post.

Sourisseau, known by the cartoonist nickname "Riss," is also the magazine's publisher and has a 40 percent stakes in the parent company. He managed to survive by playing dead with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.

"When it was over, there was no sound. No complaints. No whining. That is when I understood that most were dead," he said while recounting the tragic event, according to DW.

His remarks come six months after a terror attack on Charlie Hebdo, according to Telegraph. The magazine lost 12 journalists and cartoonists when two Islamic extremists stormed into its Paris offices on Jan. 7.

A Yemeni affiliate of Al-Qaeda later claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was revenge for Hebdo's satirical depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.

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