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On Sunday, Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias, the First Hierarch of the MP, said that the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were “childish” compared to the dirt that it dished out to Christians. Charlie Hebdo regularly offended Muslims, Christians, and others with its irreverent cartoons. Earlier this month, gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris office of the weekly; they said that they were avenging the Prophet Mohammad, whom the magazine depicted in cartoons, defying a ban in Islam on representing its founder. Kirill stated in a sermon broadcast by Rossiya-24 TV that he opposed both terrorism and giving offence to religious feelings, saying, “The cartoons of Prophet Mohammad are childish caricatures compared to what this publication allows itself in mocking the feelings of Christians. Today, in saying ‘no’ to terrorism, killings, and violence, we also say ‘no’ to the inexplicable drive by a certain group of people to deride religious feeling”.
25 January 2015
Gabriela Baczynska
Gareth Jones
Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-orthodox-head-slams-french-weeklys-mockery-christians-162228248.html
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On Sunday, Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias, the First Hierarch of the MP, said that the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were “childish” compared to the dirt that it dished out to Christians. Charlie Hebdo regularly offended Muslims, Christians, and others with its irreverent cartoons. Earlier this month, gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris office of the weekly; they said that they were avenging the Prophet Mohammad, whom the magazine depicted in cartoons, defying a ban in Islam on representing its founder. Kirill stated in a sermon broadcast by Rossiya-24 TV that he opposed both terrorism and giving offence to religious feelings, saying, “The cartoons of Prophet Mohammad are childish caricatures compared to what this publication allows itself in mocking the feelings of Christians. Today, in saying ‘no’ to terrorism, killings, and violence, we also say ‘no’ to the inexplicable drive by a certain group of people to deride religious feeling”.
25 January 2015
Gabriela Baczynska
Gareth Jones
Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-orthodox-head-slams-french-weeklys-mockery-christians-162228248.html
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