A satirical French newspaper's offices have been firebombed after announcing that the next issue would feature the Prophet Mohammed as editor-in-chief

Charlie Hebdo, long known for taking an irreverent stance with regard to all religions, also featured cartoon depictions of Mohammed on the cover (he's shown saying "100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter") and inside — a practice that Islam prohibits. The Molotov cocktail destroyed all of the newspaper’s equipment. Its website has been hacked, displaying a message cursing the paper and accusing it of abusing Islam's almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using freedom of speech as an excuse. The Mohammed issue is meant to celebrate the victory of the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia, the paper said in a statement. Charlie Hebdo had already made some Muslims angry in 2007, when it reprinted the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad.