Chief editor of Charlie Hebdo: We attack religion when it becomes political

The editor-in-chief of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Gerard Biard, said that the publication does not attack religion, if religion stays away from politics. 

"We do not attack religion, but we do when it gets involved in politics. If God becomes entangled in politics, then democracy is in danger," Interfax cited him. 

Biard said that Charlie Hebdo employs staff members who practice and observe different faiths. They don't fear being mocked, because they are not publicly declaring it. 

"To be a believer is a personal choice that concerns no one else. We respect that, in the same way that we respect a person's private life as long as the individual does not inject his or her private life into the public sphere," the editor-in-chief of the magazine said.