Granted the cartoons were low-effort and stupid but freaking out about it just proved their point
21st Century History
(thelemmy.club)
That's charlie hebdo, it happened in france. The post is about the Jyllands-Posten, from 10 years earlier, from denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy
It feels a bit more recent as similar things happened multiple times