I don't think that's the thing we should criticise right now. Religion is shit anyway and nobody should be beheaded for drawing a cartoon. Not even Ben Garrison.
However, we should be criticising the material conditions minorities endured in France for the last 100 years. There are people in France who have been lured/pressured from their colonised home countries and who are still considered less than the french. Many terror attacks were carried out by young french people who were turned towards Islam because they were never given any other chance. That hasn't changed although it would be the best prevention against future killing sprees.
Also the I think you're right about how the cartoons were published to provoke that exact reaction, so brown people could successfully be painted as savages.
like i am not defending violence i just don't think that this kinda of display helps solve the fucking problem it just adds more fuel like especially it being literally the head of state of france doing it like there is no real gain in this, and like i am an atheist my position on this like personally WHY WOULD I CARE like it such a non issue like you could just not draw muhammad because you know it is disrepectful and if you are doing it still is because you want to be disrespectful like it really does not affect anyone's life in the same way that catholics believing in saint does not change anyone's life or hindu not eating cows like why would i care about these things like i don't know believe whatever this is such a small thing our planet is going to fucking die in a dumb preventable disaster we refuse to engage and we are having to talk about this
I don't think that's the thing we should criticise right now. Religion is shit anyway and nobody should be beheaded for drawing a cartoon. Not even Ben Garrison.
However, we should be criticising the material conditions minorities endured in France for the last 100 years. There are people in France who have been lured/pressured from their colonised home countries and who are still considered less than the french. Many terror attacks were carried out by young french people who were turned towards Islam because they were never given any other chance. That hasn't changed although it would be the best prevention against future killing sprees.
Also the I think you're right about how the cartoons were published to provoke that exact reaction, so brown people could successfully be painted as savages.
like i am not defending violence i just don't think that this kinda of display helps solve the fucking problem it just adds more fuel like especially it being literally the head of state of france doing it like there is no real gain in this, and like i am an atheist my position on this like personally WHY WOULD I CARE like it such a non issue like you could just not draw muhammad because you know it is disrepectful and if you are doing it still is because you want to be disrespectful like it really does not affect anyone's life in the same way that catholics believing in saint does not change anyone's life or hindu not eating cows like why would i care about these things like i don't know believe whatever this is such a small thing our planet is going to fucking die in a dumb preventable disaster we refuse to engage and we are having to talk about this