What's wrong with the following statement?

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French weekly, published a page of Mohammed cartoons today, sending France into lockdown.

What's wrong is this: The publication of the cartoons did not send France into lockdown. The publication of the cartoons simply exercised freedom of expression, which Muslims in France and everywhere else in the world contest as a violation of Islamic law. It is uncontrollable Islamic rage and aggression over the fact that Islamic law is not dominant everywhere all the time -- their signal weapon against the timidity of the West -- that drove French authorities to take security precautions -- particularly with Friday "prayers" coming around again. This is war. Islam is attempting  to dominate the West by attacking the basis of the West: freedom of speech. Charlie Hebdo, gonzo, "alternate," Leftist (probably) weekly, shows a little resistance and the authorities brace for incoming fire. Jihad.    

See the 'toons (and translated captions) below. Andrew Bostom comments here.

A word from Charlie Hebdo:

Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons.

"Muhammad isn't sacred to me," he said in an interview at the weekly's offices on the northeast edge of Paris. "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law; I don't live under Quranic law."

Charb said he had no regrets and felt no responsibility for any violence.

"I'm not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs," he said. "We've had 1,000 issues and only three problems, all after front pages about radical Islam."

Government authorities and Muslim leaders urged calm.

"This is a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation," Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Paris Mosque, told The Associated Press. "We are not Pavlov's animals to react at each insult."

A small-circulation weekly, Charlie Hebdo often draws attention for ridiculing sensitivity around the Prophet Muhammad, and an investigation into the firebombing of its offices last year is still open. The magazine posted a statement online saying its website had been hacked.

Abdallah Zekri, president of the Paris-based Anti-Islamophobia Observatory, said his group is considering filing a lawsuit against the magazine.

"People want to create trouble in France," he said. "Charlie Hebdo wants to make money on the backs of Muslims."

Charlie Hebdo was acquitted in 2008 by a Paris appeals court of "publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion" following a complaint by Muslim associations.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said organizers of a demonstration planned for Saturday against the "Innocence of Muslims" won't receive police authorization. Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into an unauthorized protest last Saturday around the U.S. Embassy that drew about 150 people and led to scores of arrests.

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The cartoonist of the French caricatures published Wednesday, who goes by the name Luz, was defiant.

"We treat the news like journalists. Some use cameras, some use computers. For us, it's a paper and pencil," he said. "A pencil is not a weapon. It's just a means of expression."

The page above includes two  Mohammeds, "naked," as the media are now underscoring,  as if that explains everything. FYI: The Jyllands-Posten Motoons wore clothes; that didn't help. The Mohammed teddy bear in Sudan was, well, a teddy bear; that didn't help; and the pope's Regensberg speech linking Islam and violence (met with violent Islamic rioting in which an elderly nun was killed) was a highbrow affair without any illustrations at all!

Here are the captions to the nine cartoons from page 14 of Charlie Hebdo (whose site is back up).

Nine Muhammmad  cartoons (from, p. 14)

1) Et mes fesses? Tu les aimes mes fesses?  (Mohammed as Brigitte Bardot!)

“And my buttocks? You like my buttocks?”

2) Un film con sur l’Islam declenche la rage des integristes
Montrez-nous un film intelligent et on declenche la 3ieme guerre mondiale

“A bs film about Islam triggers outrage on the part of fundamentalists. Show us an intelligent film and we’ll have a third world war.”

3) Le monde Arabe revolte par les images d’un film sur Mahomet
Non, ca c’est le journal de 20 heures

“The Arab world is revolting from the images of a film about Mohammad. No, it’s the evening news.”

4) Mahomet. Une étoile est neé

“Muhammad. A star is born.”

5) Arretez de deconner sur Mohammet! (Je suis Juif)

“Stop talking bs about Mohammad! (I am Jewish)”

6) Mahomet fait reculer le chomage des jeunes

“Mohammad is making the unemployment of young people go down”

7) Connerie Salafiste
Tous les pretextes sont bons!
Encore une representation insutante de notre prophet! (picture of Bugs Bunny )

“Salafist bs–all pretexts are good! Yet another insulting depiction of our prophet!”

8) Emeutes dan les pays Arabes. Apres la publication des photos de Mme Mohamet (spoofing failure of British subjects to riot on behalf of Princess Kate's topless photos)

“Uprisings in the Arab world After the publication of photos of Mrs. Mohammad”

9) Johnny tweete son retour. Ah que c’est pas facile de tweeter dans le noir (coming from coffin; note the cross)

“Johnny tweets his return. Ah but it’s not easy to tweet in the dark”