Hmm ... this is interesting
Terrorists depend on publicity to spread fear.
"Lone gunman"-types sometimes do it specifically to become famous.
Shock art sometimes shocks purely as "click bait".
In all these cases, displaying the shocking thing may be giving someone exactly what they want. I wouldn't want our media to be so easily manipulated. See "Black Mirror - The National Anthem" for a perfect example of where that leads.
In this case I would still have run the picture, because the story was about the violent reaction. I would not have run the picture if the story were, "Here is a magazine trying to offend Muslims."
"Lone gunman"-types sometimes do it specifically to become famous.
Shock art sometimes shocks purely as "click bait".
In all these cases, displaying the shocking thing may be giving someone exactly what they want. I wouldn't want our media to be so easily manipulated. See "Black Mirror - The National Anthem" for a perfect example of where that leads.
In this case I would still have run the picture, because the story was about the violent reaction. I would not have run the picture if the story were, "Here is a magazine trying to offend Muslims."