The slain editor of Charlie Hebdo has slammed his left-wing critics from beyond the grave for criticising publication of drawings of Mohammad. In a book Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, finished just two days before being murdered by jihadist gunmen he argued that left-leaning intellectuals who denounced the cartoons in the satirical magazine were ‘ridiculous demagogues’ for doing so. In the short book, extracts of which are to be published today in weekly magazine L'Obs, he writes: ‘The suggestion that you can laugh at everything, except certain aspects of Islam, because Muslims are much more susceptible than the rest of the population, what is that, if not discrimination?Stéphane Charbonnier finished a book just two days before he was killedThe book blames the media for helping popularise the term ‘Islamophobia’Extracts from it are being published today in weekly magazine L'Obs
Charb asks why _, which technically means ‘fear of Islam’, is being used by activists, media and politicians to denounce hatred of Muslims and wonders why ‘Muslimophobia’ is not used instead, or simply ‘racism’.