I am too lazy to recreate all the links here, but I have posted a Diary on Kos that links to various examples of earlier comics published in France dealing with Christian and Jewish issues, if only to illustrate that this is not a Muslim-only issue.

Kos Diary.

Some of this was mentioned earlier by Jerome and myself, but did not elicit specific comments.

The facts of the matter are that iconoclastic cartoons have a history, were previously targetting Christianity or Judaism, and were dealt appropriately by the various legal instances in each country.