Hmmm. Not that I completely understand the views of these cartoonists, what they're actually trying to say with their cartoons and its relation to and anti-Islamic culture in France but I'm getting the impression that this article is perhaps jumping at Charlie Hebdo without really trying to understand what they're about.
I mean just a quick search about the context behind that Boko Haram cartoon (
link here) there's some interesting commentary about the nature of Charlie Hebdo, it's cartoonists, French culture in relation to American on such issues...
I'll repost one argument here:
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Adrien Lucas Ecoffet, French citizen
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I can only confirm what Jean-Baptiste Froment and Stephen Reed's answers have been saying: it's easy now for non-French observers to imagine Charlie Hebdo as a right wing, racist, anti immigrant publication because of the fact that they have only seen covers about fundamentalist Islam.
The reality is, Charlie Hebdo is a far left, pro-immigrant publication, of which many contributors have been members of anti-racist organizations.
As the other answers have mentioned, this cover is simply the combination of two news stories to make a provocative joke. This is a very common occurrence in Charlie Hebdo front pages.
Government reshuffle: Can we show these images?
The characters are the French prime minister (with a knife), and one minister whose job got... cut, in that specific reshuffle.
As I mentioned in my answer to Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo (January 2015): What should everyone know about Charlie Hebdo?, Charlie Hebdo came from a banned publication called Hara-Kiri. The front page that got Hara-Kiri banned was itself an example of news story combination:
Tragic ball in Colombey - 1 dead
This refers to president de Gaulle's death in the city of Colombey, as well as the then-recent tragic incident during a ball in another French city in which 146 people died.
Overall I don't think you should make much of this front page. Clearly people are cherry-picking Charlie Hebdo covers in an attempt to prove that it is a racist, anti-Islam publication, perhaps in some form of victim-blaming, when this assertion is absolutely preposterous to anyone who actually knows the newspaper.
Incidentally, this particular issue was preceded and followed by anti-Le Pen front pages, Le Pen being the front figure of the French anti-immigration far right.
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There's a lot more interesting comments about the nature of Charlie Hebdo, it's type of satire, and how it's possibly being misconstrued by people like Jacob. Even if any of you still disagree I think it's worth a look anyway.