I fail to see how the attacks have anything to do with racism. Islamophobia is not racism.
> Send me some photographs or your mother or spouse and let me modify those images. Let's see if you are able to ignore or laugh them off.
Well, I'm not sure they would consent to me sharing photos of them, but you can have mine :) Just add me as a friend on Facebook (Tom Primozic), and you'll have a collection of photos you can use! I'll gladly laugh at them, I promise (unless they're not funny or are disgusting or such, but I will evaluate them on purely objective standards, without taking any offence).
Muslims, particularly those in the US and Western Europe (i.e. we're not talking about Chechens), tend to be darker skinned on average. It may not be an entirely racist prejudice, but there's certainly often a racist element to it.
See also the term "urban", which in the US is frequently a dog-whistle term for "black people" despite there being plenty of whites in city downtowns.
And therein lies the rub: would you subsequently gun someone down because they made photos of your loved ones which you find distasteful?
Almost nobody would.
You can argue that only a tiny number of people would murder me, but then it's only a tiny minority of Muslims who consider murder when they hear of Muhummed cartoons.
Well, it's true. Don't ad-hominem them, it gives them power (because they can rationally say that you're wrong).
> we should not allow Islamophobic groups to use the Frenh murders to spew their Islamophobe material in mainstream media
I agree. But depictions of Muhammad, insulting as they might be for Muslims, aren't Islamophobic.