Twitterati Furious as Charlie Hebdo Depicts Hijabi Woman as Monkey

France’s Interior Minister did not spare the 19-year-old either, referring to her choice of attire as a provocation.

A 19-year-old was bullied extensively after she appeared in a documentary wearing a hijab. In the documentary, Maryam Pougetoux, leader of a student union at Paris’ Sorbonne University, talked about the ongoing student protests in France, reported MSN news. However, she drew flak not for her views, but solely because she was seen in a hijab.

According to a BBC report, France’s interior minister Gerard Collomb did not spare the 19-year-old either, referring to her choice of attire as a “provocation.”

French magazine Charlie Hebdo, however, decided to go two steps further. The magazine put out a visibly anti-Muslim cartoon, depicting the 19-year-old as a monkey. The text, written in a thought bubble on the cartoon, reads: "They chose me to head the UNEF (French National Student Union)."

Twitter users, however, were having none of it. Charlie Hebdo went on to receive a lot of hate for their attack on the 19-year-old.

This disgusting racist trash vile cover from #CharlieHebdo portrays a young Muslim girl as a monkey. Why? Because she wears hijab. And they ask Muslims to rewrite the Holy Quran because it’s antisemitic? This is the typical hypocrisy of the French establishment. Islamophobia. pic.twitter.com/MfWGMl9qms

— Chimā Elbiāly (@ChimaElbialy) May 24, 2018

“Maybe Charlie Hebdo is just straight up racist, actually?” Part 34 pic.twitter.com/CeJyglVbmp

— Ahmad Nasser Al-Shathri (@Abunass3r) May 23, 2018

Charlie Hebdo cartoonists are at it again.. this time mocking and comparing French student union leader #MaryamPougetoux to a monkey for simply wearing a hijab. #disgusting pic.twitter.com/hIERieTVHN

— pāshtÅ«n (@ibnsayyed) May 23, 2018

Spot the difference :
A Charlie Hebdo cartoon of a Muslim woman : dehumanised / animal-like
A Charlie Hebdo cartoon of a non-Muslim white woman: a human being#racism #Islamophobia #ToujoursCharlie #MaryamPougetoux #SoutienAMaryam pic.twitter.com/8Vq3Wjwdhj

— Gary (@KenefeManaiche) May 23, 2018

The always racist Charlie Hebdo, awarded PEN's free speech award, decides it's edgy to parody a hijabi student (a very bright one) and reduce her to a monkey.

But of course this is ok because the rest of us just don't get French humour. pic.twitter.com/6mr9tDUUYz

— Usaid (M) Siddiqui (@UsaidMuneeb16) May 23, 2018

It’s Really Disgusting and shameful act By Charlie Hebdo magazine On Maryam issue. We #SupportToMaryam And We are With her in This Situation .. #StopRacsim #FrenchRacist

— Razmak Sardar (@SardarRazmak) May 26, 2018

Shame on Charlie Hebdo for such blatant Islamophobia on the cover of its magazine. I saw this on the streets of Paris two days ago and I’ve been turning around the magazines in the stalls since then pic.twitter.com/CwmpB62jmK

— Joshua P. Cayetano (@JoshPCayetano) May 26, 2018

Ah satire doing its job.

The weak, maligned, voiceless, #CharlieHebdo, recipient of over $33million cash in sales & donations in 2016, taking on the powerful, unaccountable, unreachable, 19 year old student, Maryam Pougetoux, with #racist, #Islamophobic, bile. pic.twitter.com/h4x2ju84fr

— Tamim Mobayed (@tammob88) May 24, 2018

Indie comics world: you don't have to defend Charlie Hebdo. They suck.

— Octavius Rex (@xfootwinnerx) May 26, 2018

The Anti Islam magazine Charlie Hebdo has published French Muslim student union leader Maryam Pougetoux as a monkey wearing the Hijab because she gave an interview in a documentary wearing the Hijab. Grown French ministers & others couldn't handle it 💔 pic.twitter.com/kEk015omMC

— Dekhlo (@DekhloTv) May 24, 2018