This is idiotic. The magazine has published far many more gross cartoons about the Catholic Church, and even about the Trinity (!), but I don’t think the Financial Times would feel Catholics were justified in setting out to kill the magazine’s staff because they were feeling “provoked.”
It’s a silly, juvenile magazine and I wouldn’t buy it if I lived in France...but it certainly has as much of a right to attack Islam as it has to attack the Catholic Church.
I agree on silly and juvenile. Also very secular as in disdain for religion which has a long tradition in France called Anti-Clericalism.
Lefties too is my guess. But they had the cojones to include Islam in their satires. They were smart and courageous enough to name Islam as the threat to their secular ideals. Not Catholicism or Christianity. Bill Mahar is getting like this too with his anti-Islam statements.