Charlie Hebdo, the French satire paper, is and ought to be free to publish cartoons as foul, puerile, and blasphemous as they want. Anyone who responds with censorship or violence is a thin-skinned, narrow-minded tyrant.

In this spirit, people around the world responded to the terrorist murders of Charlie Hebdo’s staff by declaring “Je suis Charlie.” Many newspapers and websites planted their flag in support of free expression by printing the Charlie Hebdo comics that so offended the terrorists.