[gayprogrammer]

> Charlie Hebdo's targets ...

Who was it that killed who again?

>Charlie Hebdo's targets weren't simply religious extremists preaching from Saudi mosques; they were a portrayal of the French Muslim population as violent extremists, the dangerous other.

It sounds like the author is saying that the satire cartoon invented "racism" against Muslims. But the cartoon "targets" proved the magazine absolutely, positively, bona-fided-ly correct. They proved Charlie Hebdo right.

>You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. What did you expect was going to happen?

So the author actually blames religious attacks on the act of people talking about it happening. In some circular way, the cartoon magazine created religious violence?

I cannot fathom how the author would explain religiously motivated violence in places where a satire cartoon isn't there to talk about it.