Open letter
Subtitle: on blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the true enemies of free expression
By: Charb ; with a foreword by Adam Gopnik
Contributors: Gopnik, Adam, writer of foreword; Little, Brown and Company
Edition: First English language edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780316311335
Subjects: Social conditions; Muslims; Freedom of expression; Charlie hebdo; Blasphemy; Islam; Islamophobia; Blasphemy (Islam)
Work titles: Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes
Description: "On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb." Known by his pen name, Stéphane Charbonnier was editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, an outspoken critic of religious fundamentalism, and a renowned political cartoonist in his own right. In the past, he had received death threats and had even earned a place on Al Qaeda's "Most Wanted List." On January 7 it seemed that Charb's enemies had finally succeeded in silencing him. But in a twist of fate befitting Charb's defiant nature, it was soon revealed that he had finished a book just two days before his murder on the very issues at the heart of the attacks: blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the necessary courage of satirists." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: "A posthumous manifesto by the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo." -- Dust jacket

"Originally published in France as Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes, April 2015." -- Title page verso.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Islamophobia is the new racism; title: Faith is submission. To believe is, above all, to fear ; Being afraid is right ; All currents of thought may be criticized ; God is big enough to take care of himself; title: Elitism, condescension, and infantilization. Journalists promoting Islamophobia ; The Muhammad cartoons ; Politics promoting Islamophobia ; An elite who infantilizes Muslims in the name of the struggle against Islamophobia; title: Heroes in the struggle against Charlie Hebdo's so-called Islamophobia. Lawsuits and the clowns who file them ; Organizations misdirecting their indignation ; Top billing; title: Freedom of expression and the butterfly effect. Respect raised to the level of first principle ; Caution and cowardice promoting Islamophobia; title: Toward the definition of a promising concept. Jealous Catholics ; What about Judeophobia? ; There's no such thing as anti-republican blasphemy!; title: And what about atheophobia in all this?