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November 7th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Russia has slammed the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for cartoons depicting the Sinai air crash in which 224 people died.
The magazine published two cartoons and a joke about the A321 air crash, which has provoked outrage in Russia. The Kremlin called the images ‘pure blasphemy’.
Huffington Post reports:
The Russian plane, travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh to Moscow, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all onboard. The cause remains unknown, though Western governments suspect a bomb planted by members of the Islamic State before takeoff.
In one cartoon, a bearded man is shown looking at pieces of debris, while more rains down on him. The caption states: “The Islamic State: Russian Aviation Intensifies Its Bombardments.”
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A second cartoon depicts a skull, body parts and a burning plane, with the caption reading: “The Dangers of Russian Low-Cost Airlines.” Below the skull says: “I should’ve flown Air Cocaine.”
Russian leaders were quick to condemn the drawings, with Russian Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov denouncing the drawings as “pure blasphemy,” adding: “This has nothing to do with democracy or self-expression.”
“My colleagues and I tried to find caricatures of the Charlie Hebdo journalists in the magazine, who were shot by terrorists,” he continued. “We were unable to find them. But if they were published, then it would also be blasphemy, well at least in our country,” he added.
Konstantin Kosachyov, the head of the Russian Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee, was equally critical. On his Facebook he accused the magazine of profiteering from death. “The cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are nothing but another example of systematic immorality in self-advertising and shameless money-making on other people’s misfortunes and tragedies,” he wrote.
Igor Morozov, a member of the Federation Council, said: “I believe it is blasphemy and ridicules the memory of those who lost their lives as a result of this catastrophe.“
Russia slams Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Egypt crash, calls it ‘sacrilege’ https://t.co/eyzUU5ZEKA pic.twitter.com/BW6jD0xQjn
— Deccan Chronicle (@DeccanChronicle) November 6, 2015
Source Article from http://yournewswire.com/russia-outraged-by-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-ridiculing-a321-crash/
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