Protest graffiti was sprayed outside the French cultural centre in Gaza before dawn Saturday following the publication of a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.But the Arabic AFP article includes one more graffitum that did not make it into the English version.
“You will go to hell, French journalists,” read one of the slogans daubed on the walls of the cultural centre compound, which has been closed since it was damaged in a fire last October.
“Anything but the prophet,” read another.
It said "God damn you, O worshipers of the cross."
Now, why would AFP choose to self-censor the most incendiary statement from its English articles? Instead of the graffiti being merely against the Charlie Hebdo magazine, it was really against Christianity altogether!
UPDATE: Bob Knot found the original AFP video footage. I think this is the relevant graffitum:
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