Especially since Charlie Hebdo's goal has never been to offend "just for the purpose of offending". Their comics are for their readers. For most of their histo

Especially since Charlie Hebdo's goal has never been to offend "just for the purpose of offending". Their comics are for their readers. For most of their history (before the internet) only the few people who bought it read it and their drawings didn't make the news even if most of them would've been very offensive to some. They try to convey something insightful in an humoristic way, usually in a pretty unflattering way for the depicted. That's what satire means. If they end up making pictures about islam these days, it's because islam hits the news much more than it did in Hara Kiri's days. Their drawings and articles always followed the news. And when YOU hit the news because some people can't take a joke, you keep following the news and respond in your next issue: "please stop being so stupid" in an humoristic and unflattering way for the depicted. If you can't depict the world around you in a funny way, usually unflattering to the depicted because the depicted might be offended, then you can't do satire. At least have the guts to say it in plain words: "I'm all for free speech except when stuff I hold dear are being caricatured". Which means you don't want free speech because anyone can then claim they're offended by anything.