The deep sense of insult over the newspaper’s depictions of the prophet went far beyond the extremists to many devout Muslims who opposed the killing.

“This act doesn’t stand for what real Islam is,” said Fadi Yassin, an antigovernment activist in northern Syria reached through Skype. “But it also comes as a result of mistakes committed by the media that have for a longtime offended Muslims by insulting their sacred figures.”

Shadi Hamid, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a book on Islamist movements, said that mainline Islamist groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood parties in Egypt and Jordan, had condemned the violence but criticized the newspaper.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/islamic-extremists-take-to-social-media-to-praise-charlie-hebdo-attack.html

Right. Those two wonderful Soldiers of God were provoked, after all. Where and why did we ever get the idea that we ought to respect religion? It's idiotic.