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Thousands of Jamat-e-Islami (JI) supporters gathered in Peshawar on Sunday to protest against Charlie Hebdo.
The French satirical magazine had republished the controversial cartoons from 2015, poking fun at the Prophet Muhammad, which led to the horrific attacks on the magazine’s office and a kosher supermarket and the deaths of 17 people.
The crowds were at a ‘Finality of Prophethood’ rally where JI leader Siraj ul Haq addressed protesters.
‘We must find the reason why the honor of our kind prophet and his companions is being attacked,’ he said.
The cartoons were reprinted to mark the start of the trial of 14 suspects believed to be behind the attacks, three of whom – who either fled or are presumed dead – are being tried in absentia.
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In This Story: Charlie Hebdo
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30am CET local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Charlie Hebdo is a publication that courted controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders. It published cartoons of Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were also firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a caricature of Muhammad on its cover.
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