The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo announced that it will refrain from drawing Mohammed cartoons going forward.
The magazine’s top editor and publisher, Laurent Sourisseau, made the announcement last week.
"We have drawn Muhammad to defend the principle that one can draw whatever they want,” Sourisseau told the German publication Stern. “It is a bit strange though: we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to.”
The editor, who goes by the penname Riss, said the decision did not have anything to do with the deadly terrorist attack on the offices that occurred six months ago. But rather because that paper had set out to do what it was supposed to.
As previously reported, two gunman stormed the Charlie Hebdo Paris offices on Jan. 7 and murdered 12 people, including five cartoonists. The attacks are believed to have been revenge for the magazine's cartoon drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The only surviving cartoonist Renald “Luz” Luzier left the publication in May saying that his job had just become “too much to bear” after the massacre.
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