Six months after an attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, editor of the French satirical magazine has said he will no longer draw comics of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

“We have drawn Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to defend the principle that one can draw whatever they want. It is a bit strange though, we are expected to exercise a freedom of expression that no one dares to,” Laurent Sourisseau said, during an interview with the Hamburg-based news magazine Stern.

Souriseau’s statement comes six months after his magazine’s office came under a deadly attack that left 16 people dead.

However, Souriseau’s claimed that the magazine had done what it set out to do. “We’ve done our job. We have defended the right to caricature.”

“We still believe that we have the right to criticise all religions,” the editor said.

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