"Everyone" knows those guys were leftist intellectuals. That doesn't mean they weren't part of the problem, that their satire and the nature of it isn't immune to criticism. The cartoon of the girls with hijab screaming for welfare was on the fucking cover; it was what greeted people in the stores that sold the mag. If anything, the supposedly well-meaning intentions of the satire seems to have been used as an excuse, a license if you will to make cheap jokes on behalf of the muslim minority while still keeping their hands clean...