Muslims react to new Charlie Hebdo cover

After an initial low reaction when the cover image was revealed, several conversations have caught fire on social media as the magazine went on sale Wednesday. #WhoIsMuhammad? has been shared more than 167,000 times and the numbers are still rising. It was started by a Twitter user called @SpanishKash1.

 

“I was on the verge of tears,” he says, after he saw the image of Muhammad on the front of Charlie Hebdo’s latest edition. He’s urging supporters to change their avatar to the Prophet’s name in Arabic. While pictures of Muhammad are taboo in Islam, artistic representations of the letters making up his name are acceptable.

 

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