Probably a minority opinion here, but what the Hell. And no, I don't think any killing on this planet is justified, so spare the rhetoric there. I have so little sympathy for any of those involved on either side. I'm so sick of people dragging satire to an elevated point that it borders on hate-crime, and serves absolutely no purpose but to antagonize. Lazy, incompetent journalism is leagues above this drivel, and it is no shock to see extremists react this way. Think of it another way; even in the most basic example of schoolyard bullying, we see otherwise rational people react in any number of ways ranging from fighting back, depression, suicide, murder, you name it. Forget the extremists for a minute; how ostracized would this publication have made tens of thousands of people feel, to be constantly shat upon for their beliefs. **** Charlie Hebdo; hate-crimes thinly veiled under the cloak of free speech is weak and deplorable. People need to stop focusing on the Muslim component here; this has to do so much more with harassment than it does free speech. This dummies just happened to pick an enemy that actually sticks to their beliefs in full, and will fight to the death for them. Kinda like bringing a knife to a gun fight IMHO