Sebuah debat di televisi antara penerbit Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val, dan rektor Masjid Agung Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, juga menunjukkan perbedaan mendalam antara kedua pihak, terutama menyangkut pembatasan kebebasan berbicara, Islamonline.net melaporkan.
Boubakeur said the offensive cartoons showing Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with a bomb in his turban was not simply satire, but an insult against all Muslims by suggesting they were all terrorists.