The most recent cover of French magazine Charlie Hebdo mocks victims of Hurricane Harvey with art of neo-Nazis drowning and text that translates to, “God Exists! He Drowned All the Neo-Nazis of Texas.”
The cover features an image of swastika flags and arms in the Nazi salute being submerged in rainwater. The hurricane and massive flooding in the Houston area has killed at least 31 people and left thousands stranded.
The typically controversial satire magazine was the victim of a terror attack in 2015 when a gunman opened fire on the staff for mocking Prophet Mohammed. The terrorists with Al-Qaeda tied killed 12 of the magazine’s staffers.
An evil, despicable cover. Also, the losers at Charlie Hebdo have a God-given right to publish it, & no one has the right to shoot them pic.twitter.com/isOVjkXPR0
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) August 30, 2017
The cover is presumably poking fun at the tragic events in Charlottesville earlier this month when violence erupted at a White Supremacy rally, killing three people. Users quickly rushed to Twitter to criticize the cover, with many people noting that the magazine has the right to print whatever it wants.
“Free speech is wonderful isn’t it, Charlie Hebdo? You have every right to publish this, and I have every right to call you a piece of s–t,” one user wrote.
Another person tweeted, “You know why I love this picture of Charlie Hebdo? Because nobody will murder them over it. That is why western culture is superior to Islam”
Check out some of the reactions:
French rag Charlie Hebdo mocks Harvey victims as Neo Nazis
Charlie Hebdo makes fun of everyone but Muslims. Cowards https://t.co/VUnXuN1ARy
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/polNewsInfinity/status/903063579896709124
France's Charlie Hebdo mocking Houston flood victims as Nazis. Remember when we mocked their dead? Me neither. pic.twitter.com/0Sn7J73FiD
— Bearzus (@bearzus) August 31, 2017
#CharlieHebdo makes fun of everything. What a shame. It's disheartening
— Yusuf Mohammed (@Yusufwrites) August 31, 2017
This is such a trash response to everything going on in the USA. Je ne suis pas #charliehebdo . https://t.co/Pk27wsj7vD
— value extractor (@tsesque) August 31, 2017
Of course this is safe for them. Charlie Hebdo knows a team of evangelical Texans will never storm their offices shouting "Praise God"
— Just Joan (@6thgentexan) August 31, 2017
@dagenmcdowell Charlie Hebdo should recall how many Texans died kicking Nazis out of France
— Fierce Terrier (@mpav) August 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/John_W_Marshall/status/903227661987794946
https://twitter.com/99Zeus99/status/903227358123098112
Can anyone explain to me by the way why the latest Charlie Hebdo cover is DEFINITELY mocking Harvey victims?
— ☕ Mighty Sleepy ☕ (@dicrowmatic) August 31, 2017
https://twitter.com/johnpiccianojr/status/903226941561597958