So if you draw a picture of a middle-aged Arab man in traditional clothes, and caption it: “Mohammed, a child rapist,” is that mocking, or a fact statement with an illustration?
Whether it is moral or not may depend on the intent. And I am not cardboard; I have prejudices that might make me quite fallible in deciding morality. That’s why they didn’t make me Gd.
Filtered through my humble prejudiced moral sense, I see the cartoons Charlie Hebdo printed as not immoral because they were taking a political stand and mocking everyone with no shame. They were equal opportunity insulters of the three big religions. It doesn’t trip my morality-dar.
Deliberately trying to insult and provoke should be and is legal here, but I find making a contest solely to insult and provoke, though legal, not a great moral choice. As I feel about the Book of Mormon musical even while recognizing the talent. And as I feel about the purely for scatalogical shock Piss Christ.
I see my example as a purely political provocation. It doesn’t say anything about the Moslem religion or its adherents. You could even caption my generic Arab male figure as “Mohammed, 570-632 A.D.”
How is that mocking religion?