I'm not familiar with the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, so I can't really comment on them.
To me, though, humor makes the world a much better place, so I disagree adamantly with the judgment you make in the last sentence of yr thoughts above.
The real issue, I suspect, is that Islam seems lost in a time warp. Possibly because it's a newer religion than Christianity? I can't really say. Certainly the Inquisitionists took a similarly dim view of jokes made about Jesus and his Dad back in the 15th century. Are we 1400 years after the birth of Mohammad now? Maybe what we're really looking at is developmental phases in the maturing of religions.
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To me, though, humor makes the world a much better place, so I disagree adamantly with the judgment you make in the last sentence of yr thoughts above.
The real issue, I suspect, is that Islam seems lost in a time warp. Possibly because it's a newer religion than Christianity? I can't really say. Certainly the Inquisitionists took a similarly dim view of jokes made about Jesus and his Dad back in the 15th century. Are we 1400 years after the birth of Mohammad now? Maybe what we're really looking at is developmental phases in the maturing of religions.