French editor fired over Muhammad cartoon

timesonline: The head of a French newspaper has been sacked less than 24 hours after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad on his front page.

Jacques Lefranc, was the managing editor of France Soir - a once successful Paris daily now struggling to survive - which splashed over his front page a cartoon depicting Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb.

Under the headline "Yes, we have the right to caricature God", the cartoon also showed Buddha, the Christian and Jewish deities and the Prophet all sitting on a cloud. The Christian God says: "Don't complain Muhammad, all of us have been caricatured."

... Shortly after France Soir appeared on newsstands M Lefranc was sacked. Raymond Lakah, the paper's Egyptian owner, issued a public apology: "We express our regrets to the Muslim community and all people who were shocked by the publication of the cartoons," he said Read more