Is The New Charlie Hebdo Edition Offensive?

Mal Fletcher on BBC Radio


French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has just published its first edition after the tragic attacks in Paris.

The cover features another drawing of the Muslim Prophet Muhammed. Is this inflammatory? Should other media and press outlets republish the cover? What is the balance between freedom of expression and exercising restraint in the immediate wake of a tragedy?

Mal Fletcher answers these questions and more in this interview with BBC Radio's Mike Parr.


(To listen to Mal's other BBC interviews on this subject, click here and here.)