I expect cartoonists everywhere to be showing solidarity with the cartoonists murdered in Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, but I’ll limit myself here to what Ted Rall had to say. One of the most politically ornery of American cartoonists, Rall reminded us on his blog that the killers were provoked. There’s not a whisper of justification in noting this; we must insist, and their coreligionists must insist in voices louder than our own, that murder completely dishonors their faith. But the cartoons on Islam published by Charlie Hebdo were drawn to offend and did.
Here’s a recent strip:
