On January 7, 2015, Al-Qaeda was held responsible for an attack on the office of a weekly french newspaper, Charlie Hebdo.  This attack was originated by Al-Qaeda due to the newpaper’s publication of a picture of Muhammad, which is not allowed in the Muslim religion.

The Charlie Brown graphic is depicted as having a very mournful expression, along with a very raggedy look which is shown by his over-worn shirt and messy shoe laces. Charlie’s face reflects grief over the massacred cartoonists.  The raggedy, broken look the character has may have been paired to this event to relate the effect the attack has had on Charlie Hebdo. This attack has hurt the company greatly putting them in a broken state.

The freedom of speech is viewed to be one of the most important rights a person has.  Charlie Hebdo had the right to publish the picture because of the freedom of speech.  Charlie Hebdo was punished by Al-Qaeda due to what they had published even though they had the right to publish it.  This in turn sparked controversy which exploded all over the media and had shown the world of this wrong-doing and tragedy.