[OrangeHoof]

I’d just like to know if their tack would be the same if some extremist Christians murdered Bill Maher. Would there be all this sympathy and understanding for the attackers? Would they say Maher “had it coming” and “provoked” the murderers?

What if a fringe group of Mormons shot up the studio where South Park is made? Would there be all this sympathy and understanding for the attackers? Would they say the South Park folks “had it coming” and “provoked” the murderers?

If not, they’re hypocrites of the first order. Muslims have no special right to murder as a response to satire and ridicule, no matter how badly they may have thought it was deserved.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Donohue didn't say the Charlie Hebdo staff "had it coming." He unequivocally condemned the murders and said such acts of violent retaliation are not to be tolerated.

He said that anger against obscenity is justified, but not carrying out massacres.

Don't do WaPo's work for them.