Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)senior leader Shireen Mazari has condemned the hatred and Islamophobia based cartoon published by French Magazine Charlie Hebdo about earthquake in Turkey.
In a Tweet on Thursday, the PTI leader said: “Hatred & Islamophobia at its peak when a natural disaster draws this kind of reaction from Charlie Hebdo! Sickening to the core. Waiting to hear voices of condemnation from Europe.”
Hatred & Islamophobia at its peak when a natural disaster draws this kind of reaction from Charlie Hebdo! Sickening to the core. Waiting to hear voices of condemnation from Europe. pic.twitter.com/BntDPKhqOg
— Shireen Mazari (@ShireenMazari1) February 8, 2023
Charlie Hebdo in the cartoon has sketched the destruction of the earthquake and has given it the title of “earthquake in Turkey” and in the subtitle the magazine has written hatred words: “Not even need to sent tanks”.
Meanwhile, internet users voiced frustration and anger over Charlie Hebdo, billed as a satirical weekly, publishing the cartoon even as frantic search and rescue efforts continue to rescue survivors of the deadly disaster.
Referring to a 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo which killed 12 people, Alexandre Boisson, a former member of the SDLP bodyguard service to two French presidents from 2002 to 2011, said on Twitter: “My colleague Franck Brinsoloro (RIP) died to protect you. If your pen becomes murderous and leads to sacrificing other colleagues from the SDLP, you have to appear in court for incitement to hatred.”
Yigit Ongen, a French-Turkish user on Twitter, said he was in Paris when Charlie Hebdo was attacked in 2015 and took part in marches to support them.
“However, it has upset me to see you have no spirituality. Thousands of people are living and (trapped) under debris,” he added.
The Bosphorus Institute, a Paris-based independent think tank working to strengthen friendship between France and Türkiye, slammed the cartoon as “shameful, pathetic, and pitiful.”
