[AnAmericanMother]

I get their point.

If only to show that we're not going to burn down anything or machine-gun anybody just because we find them tacky and tasteless.

Which Charlie Hebdo most assuredly is - but they're equal opportunity tacky and tasteless, so I just can't get that offended. As my dear mom used to say, "Consider the source."

[FR_addict]

I heard the Charlie Hebdo’s special edition features Mohammed with a tear running from his eye. Talk about giving in to the terrorists. So they go from making fun of Mohammed into making him a sympathetic figure. They dishonor their slain coworkers and what they stood for. Unless the cartoons inside the magazine are different, it sounds like the terrorists won.

Now you can make fun of Catholics with the Jesuit priests blessing, but not Mohammed.

[21twelve]

Exactly. Although - if they wanted to take it a bit further they could explain or clarify some of the possible images (I couldn’t get it to load).