A defiant Charlie Hebdo cover of a crying Prophet Muhammad above the slogan "All is Forgiven" was reproduced by media around the world on Tuesday but was seen by many Muslims as an unnecessary provocation.
"Charlie Hebdo has again insulted the Prophet," the conservative news website Tabnak asserted, next to a blurred image of the cover.Major Arab broadcasters Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera did not show the cover in their reports.
Almost none of the newspapers in Italy and in Russia carried the cover image.Many US news media showed prudence. New York Times website reported on the Muhammad cover but providing readers only with a link to the site of the French newspaper Liberation. Major television networks also did not reproduce the cover.
Wall Street Journal, though, did, and so did tabloids like New York Daily News.Times of India