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Your support makes all the difference.When the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an edition "guest-edited" by the Prophet Mohamed and named it "Sharia Hebdo" last year, the publication's offices were fire-bombed. Perhaps the title isn't happy with its existing premises because now it's printed cartoons caricaturing the Prophet. The magazine's editor, "Charb", said the images would "shock those who will want to be shocked".
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