Charlie Hebdo ‘Could Not Exist’ in Russia

A satirical publication that buffoons faith, national politics as well as society like France’s Charlie Hebdo would certainly not be able to exist in Russia, the Kremlin said Thursday after France saw its 2nd lethal fear attack in 2 weeks.

Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov called Thursday’s killing of three people in a Nice church– which followed a Chechen evacuee beheaded a French teacher Oct. 16 for showing Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to students– a “horrifying disaster.” His remarks to reporters came as video showed lots gathered outside the French Embassy in Moscow chanting “Allahu Akbar” against the display of Prophet Muhammad animes.

When asked whether Russia might release a magazine similar to Charlie Hebdo, Peskov informed Kommersant FM radio: “No, it could not.”

” Every faith stays in full respect of each various other. That’s why the presence of such a magazine is impossible here, consisting of when considering our existing legislations,” Peskov said, pointing out that Russia is residence to around 20 million Muslims.

Peskov decreased to answer whether it serves to caricaturize the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims resent at representations of the Prophet Muhammad, while France has a happy nonreligious custom dating back to the Revolution.

Peskov likewise declined to discuss Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s uncommon rebuke of his earlier comments that President Vladimir Putin and not regional governors form Russia’s foreign policy.

Kadyrov on Wednesday had actually joined various other Muslim figures in condemning French President Emmanuel Macron for maintaining France’s commitment to the right to mock religious beliefs, telling Peskov that he was speaking as a passionate Muslim as well as not as a political leader.

” I’m ready to leave my article, offer or endure up my life for this stance,” the 44-year-old leader of Russia’s Muslim-majority area created on his social networks page.

Famous French-born Russian tv reporter Vladimir Pozner told the Podyom information site that Paris ought to deport “tens of thousands” of radical Islamists adhering to the string of strikes.

Putin has sent his condolences to Macron over the “unfortunate repercussions” of the attacks.

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