France steps up security at embassies as magazine publishes Prophet Mo cartoons

[Insula Dei]

Gotta agree with the Antonio/Franzl axis on this one.  Just keep making Mohammed cartoons until the protestors get tired of protesting.  Next week, they'll be onto protesting over something else anyway.

You're right (without realizing why, perhaps), cartoons like these are only accidental to the protests they incite.

[Insula Dei]

Taking the decision not to publish a cartoon which only is meant to insult and cause mayhem may be considered adult behaviour, yeah.

At the very least it betrays some concern for the quality of the stuff you're publishing.

[Insula Dei]

At the very least the people of Charlie Hebdo aren't doing a very good job if they think that cartoon was funny.

[Insula Dei]

At the very least the people of Charlie Hebdo aren't doing a very good job if they think that cartoon was funny.

...and that's completely irrelevant to the point.

Oh it is, because it makes the difference between an empty, vapid provocation and between legitimate satire. Charlie Hebdo's job is not to jump up and down some imaginary barricades in the defense of Free Speech, but to bring actual satire. Nobody's disputing that the magazine has a right to print whatever filth it wants (and let's be honest here: there are very few other accurate descriptions of a deliberately insulting yet simultaneously meaningless and inane cartoon like this), the question is whether our little knights of the liberal table are right to do so.