&gt; Charlie Hebdo&#x27;s targets ...<p>Who was it that killed who again?<p>&gt;Charlie Hebdo&#x27;s targets weren&#x27;t simply religious extremists preaching from Saudi mosques; they were a portrayal of the French Muslim population as violent extremists, the dangerous other.<p>It sounds like the author is saying that the satire cartoon invented &quot;racism&quot; against Muslims. But the cartoon &quot;targets&quot; proved the magazine absolutely, positively, bona-fided-ly correct. 
They proved Charlie Hebdo right.<p>&gt;You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. What did you expect was going to happen?<p>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?<p>I cannot fathom how the author would explain religiously motivated violence in places where a satire cartoon isn&#x27;t there to talk about it.