I use your ask for providing more sources and context, on racism and other accusations (sexism, homophobia and transphobia and I also found antiziganism, antisemitism and fatphobia) as well. Please beware that lot of them can be triggering.
This cover says on top “The sexual slaves of Boko Haram are angry” and on the bottom “don’t touch our welfare benefits”.
This cover show two of the main leaders of anti-LGBT protestations in France. The title, “manif de vieilles gouines”, means “old dyke protestations”, because the best way to fight homophobia is to use lesbophobic slurs right ?
This cover shows the French president with the caption “All powerful… excepts against banks (denoucing his broken promises regarding the regulation of the banking system) and “bobonne” (a huge misogynistic slur, especially used against staying-at-home mums, an allusion to a tweet of Valérie Trierweiler, his former partner, which cause some political drama.
Translation of this cover “The pope in Paris. French people as dumb as n***ger
The imam or deeply Muslim guy is saying to the other one “Brother. Don’t pay 40€ for a trick with a prostitute when for this price you can have a spouse.
I don’t know if it is clear but the couple are two guys. The caption says “Surrogacy : two parents and a slave”.
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So back on Valérie Trierweiler, now former French president’s partner. This drawing says “which man for Valérie Trierweiler ? “Charlie Hebdo” suggests Bertrand Cantat (famous French singer who killed his partner, the actress Marie Trintignant, in a domestic “argument”).
This is DSK, which I think US and other people know because his rape of Nafissatou Diallo was all over the news. In this drawing, he is saying to the French president “I told you not to fuck a maid”.
This shows clearly Muslim guys saying “life is not only about bearded men” (in French, “the bearded” is often a way to speak both of islamic terrorists and deeply Muslim people).
This drawing starts with a pun, “decomposed family” (“recomposed family” meaning, for instance, a woman, her children from her previous marriage, and her new husband). The first “decomposed family” is “In Tchernobyl, a family is three mums and two dads”. The second one “In 93 (meaning Seine-Saint-Denis, a poor area of France with lot of Muslim and Black people) it is a mum and 36 dads (an allusion to gang bangs)” and the last one is “in Calcutta, a family is half a dad and a third of a mum”.
This is a drawing of French minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, published after the far-right newspaper Minute insulted her of being a “monkey” in one of their covers.
This is an about the wish of the actor Gérard Départieu to move in Belgium to pay less taxes. The text says “Can Belgium welcome all the cholesterol of the world ?”, which is also an allusion to the phrase “France cannot welcomes all the misery of the world” which is used by anti-immigration politics.
This is the French president. “Théorie du genre” is the way anti-LGBT people talk about LGBT rights. So if you meet a French personn believing in “théorie du genre”, it means they are against same-gender mariages and transgender rights and for very different gender roles for women and men. This cover was published around the supression of anti-homophobic and anti-sexism education at school, so by using “théorie du genre” to talk about the issue Charlie Hebdo clearly choosed their side. His talking about how to teach children how to read (another huuuge French education system debate), but with sexual puns with “anal” and “cock”.
“At least, we can say it. Hitler. SUPER NICE !”. Hitler is using a very deeply antisemit slur and saying “ça gaze ?”, a slang way to say “How are you ?”, with a pun to gas chambers. (This cover is from 1978, while all the other ones are all from the 21st century).
This cover is about Leonarda, a Rromani 13-years old girl who was taken by the police while she was at her school to be expelled from the French territory with her family. Leonarda was the only one of her family borned in France, and thus the French presidency proposed for her to come back in France, but not with her family. The text says “Leonarda : French First Lady” while the French presidents says “without her family”, at which she answers “shut up”.
And this is what Charlie Hebdo is.
Please keep in mind we are all in agreement that this garbage should not have led to their executions. But French people saying #jesuischarlie (I am Charlie) to try to support each other and come together as a country is pretty horrifying.
Je me suis pas Charlie
