French flags torched as Charlie Hebdo protests erupt from Algiers to Zinder

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44. I am the first to stand up for free speech

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But I wonder if throwing it back in their faces was the right decision for Charlie Hebdo, with another depiction of Mohammad on their new cover.




My increasingly atheist leanings, and my disgust with violence in the name of religion makes this cover, this slap in the face, satisfying in some kind of guilty pleasure way. Like the story about the gay couple buying a house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church and painting it as a rainbow. But looking at the big picture, I think the paper could have been a little more thoughtful, at least for the first cover after.

I can't find the cartoon, but there is one editorial cartoon showing the Muslim policeman, who was shot and killed, on the side walk dead. Something based around that would have been much more powerful and helped to silence the radicals. Shoving it back in their faces only gives them an excuse to leap frog back to mindless rage.