@KNOWITALL I’m not a Muslim, but I can give you my opinion on the specific issue that made fun of my country, if that’s good for you :)
First, here’s the issue
I first came across the issue in a Facebook comment on the Notre-Dame fire. The commenter said that we shouldn’t feel sorry for the burning and for the French in general because they made fun of the country during the conflict with China in the 70s, along with an image of that issue.
The words on the cover can be translated as “Go on, the yellow”, and the drawing depicts an extremely stereotyped version of Chinese and Vietnamese. The two people look like they are biting each other like some kind of animals. So now you have the skin color card, the stereotype, and the dehumanization. I didn’t learn much about the war being depicted at school, but from what I could see, that war was stupid and unnecessary, all because China wanted to fight over nothing. Well, that was from a Vietnamese’s perspective, so you can easily see how the picture’s content is “offensive” in our eyes. It is basically making fun of us for defending our country and putting us in the same group as China. The tone of the title doesn’t help either. It’s as if the picture is telling both side to go die and no one would care.
If I wasn’t familiar with the kind of humor in French comics, I would have been severely offended like that commenter. Fortunately I am and I quickly realized that this was just the aggressive humor in action again. Still it left a little bad taste in my mouth. Looking back at the comment on Facebook, it was very similar to the 2015 incident, just without the violence. Someone got offended by the newspaper’s humor and wanted to fight back. In 2015, it was physical violence, and on Facebook on that day, it was apathy to the church’s burning.
This also gave me a moment of very disturbing introspection. After the Charlie Hebdo attack, many people in my country changed their avatar to the Je Suis Charlie thing and voiced their sympathy to the tragedy. But then some time later someone saw the issue about my country, and they shifted their opinion. People are sympathetic to Charlie Hebdo until it is them that got featured in their news, despite the fact that the newspaper’s sole existence is to make fun of everything. That really made me think about the act of being offended.