“The front cover has already drawn mixed reactions from Muslims in France and overseas.
Egypt’s state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar al-Ifta, quickly denounced it as “an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims”.
Any figurative drawing is forbidden in Islam, and certainly any drawing of Mohammed, whether insulting or not, is considered blasphemy.
Nonetheless, this was Charlie Hebdo’s suck-up to Islam, even though the Muslims were too dumb to understand it. The tearful Mohammed saying (in French, obviously) “All is forgiven,” was nothing but an attempt to say “Islam is the religion of peace” in French.