Although no media outlet in the US will show you these images, they can all be found online with a simple Google search.
This cartoon criticizes racial profiling, specifically discrimination by the French police against immigrants from North Africa and people of African descent.
"No to racist identity checks." |
This cartoon depicts and quotes the racist demagogue politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of the Front National party (with the eye patch). The armed thugs in the background are racist skinheads and their ilk. The cartoon leaves little doubt as to who is afraid.
"We want to be able to go out in the evening without being afraid." |
"Move on, you blue peckerheads!" |
This cartoon criticizes the size of the military budgets across Europe. At the top, "Those clowns that suck the blood of Europe," and at bottom, "Let's put the military budgets on a diet!"
This cartoon ruthlessly criticizes the French military.
"July 14, the killers' holiday." |
This cartoon was published in 1979 in the antiwar journal L'Union pacifiste. While this specific image might not have been published in Charlie Hebdo (I don't have access to their archives), it strikingly conveys Cabu's lifelong antiwar and anticolonialist politics, which always fit right in at Charlie Hebdo (and were shared by the majority of the journalists and cartoonists there).
"France doesn't have oil, but she has an army!" |
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