Fellow political cartoonists react to Charlie Hebdo shooting on Twitter

The cold blooded massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices has shaken the world. The militant attack led to the death of twelve people, two of them being police officers.

The incident, where Islamic terrorist attacked the employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) for publishing comics and cartoons mocking prophet Mohammed, has aggravated issues of challenges to press freedom, and heightened concerns of Islamophobia.

However as Parisians and the entire world mourned the deaths of the victims of fundamentalism and intolerance, political cartoonists world over stood up to perpatrators of terror... using the best weapon known to them.

Dutch political cartoonist Ruben Oppenheimer likened the attack to the 9/11 terror attack.

#CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/15O4YC2KWg

— Ruben L. Oppenheimer (@RLOppenheimer) January 7, 2015

Martin Vidberg tweeted "How can I draw today? How can I not draw today?". Text of the cartoon reads "Today I am an editorial cartoonist. Today I am a journalist. Today I draw for Charlie Hebdo."

Comment dessiner aujourd'hui ? Comment ne pas dessiner aujourd'hui ? pic.twitter.com/cNtJY6e7MK

— Martin Vidberg (@Vidberg) January 7, 2015

French illustrator and Youtube personality Cyprien

C'est un drame pour la France... #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/lGfNUHfQIZ

— Cyprien (@MonsieurDream) January 7, 2015

David Pope from Canberra Times 

Can't sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/LqIMRCHPgK

— David Pope (@davpope) January 7, 2015

Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff

Please, RT! #CharlieHebdo attack has another victim! Via @MiddleEastMnt #ParisShooting pic.twitter.com/PNesB88POL

— Carlos Latuff (@LatuffCartoons) January 7, 2015

France's BFM TV

Hommage de notre dessinateur @na_dessinateur aux victimes de #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/2AgMZyc7Yq

— BFMTV (@BFMTV) January 7, 2015

Chilean political cartoonist Francisco J. Olea: "To arms, companions!"

#CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/jIBbrIShe8

— Francisco J. Olea (@oleismos) January 7, 2015

Il Matinale

La #vignetta del #Mattinale di oggi! #CharlieHebdo @forza_italia @simonebaldelli pic.twitter.com/XzxQFjC62q

— Il Mattinale (@IlMattinale) January 7, 2015

Philip DeFranco

#CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/GPCQK2EbbF

— Philip DeFranco (@PhillyD) January 7, 2015

Illustrator Tommy Dessine

#CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/GNh2ZAEArf

— Tommy dessine (@Tommydessine) January 7, 2015

James McLeod from Evansville Courier and Press

#JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/FPYIswn625

— MacLeodCartoons (@MacLtoons) January 7, 2015

Dutch cartoonist Joep Bertrams 

Charlie Hebdo. Nooit opzij. pic.twitter.com/MJwGKPQ8jU

— Joep Bertrams (@joepbertrams) January 7, 2015

dna​'s Manjul too put his pen to paper to symbolically depict the horror that took place

#CharlieHebdo #parisattack #ParisShooting My #cartoon pic.twitter.com/XJwotKRyoQ

— MANJUL (@MANJULtoons) January 7, 2015

Twitter account of Banksy

#CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/9sCF1EN5DH

— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) January 7, 2015

Christian Adams from The Daily Telegraph

Tomorrow's@Telegraph #cartoon. #CharlieHebdo #FreedomOfSpeech pic.twitter.com/xDCws3K7R9

— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) January 7, 2015

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