@Cierzo: the best defense against a charge of "slander" is the truth. So respectfully, I don't know if slander would apply. The cartoon is the cartoonists' "take" on an actual situation. It's like the cartoon they drew of the Syrian refugee child, the little boy who drowned. Who could make fun of a dead child ?? But the death occurred. Chances are, people who are outraged by their work don't support them and don't buy their magazine anyway. But again, we're speaking of a different country and culture than the U.S. Do the French regularly boycott media ? Do they assume, for example, if segments of the population don't like a message, it has no right to be voiced ? As far as shutting down the magazine, this is precisely what their Muslim community had been trying to accomplish long before the January 2015 attacks on their office.