That said, someone explain to me how mocking people's beliefs brings positive change in this world.
I don't get the point of satire. It just makes people who already agree pat themselves on the back and the people you are mocking will double down to spite you. It's not intellectually clever, it is just bullying in another form.
You want people to change without war, then you need dialog. Satire is not dialog, it is a one-way street.
Some people are swayed by emotional argument and some are not.
Some people are swayed by satire and some are not.
Satire, it general, is not intended for the people being satirized, it's intended to enlighten the audience about the true nature of those being satirized.
This satire, in particular, was meant to illustrate to the French audience that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. Islam already knows that it is not.
Just because you, personally, seem confused by satire to the point of bewilderment and anger doesn't mean satire is not an effective tool in convincing others on important topics and issues.
I have to believe that is the best way to make the world work eventually, or at least get people to stop killing each other.
If I was to then start calling you names or mocking what you hold dear, the outcome is guaranteed to end badly.
Now if you are saying satire is the way give the non-deep thinking third-parties cartoons like people read the funny-pages, I still do not see how that solves anything. If the cartoon is what it takes to make them grasp something then you are not dealing with something rational.
Nothing is sacred,that's the positive change to the world. Everybody will have, sooner or later, to acknowledge the fact that religions are no different from fairy tails.
But inciting people and/or depicting people as terrorist only ends up bad and nothing's good ever comes out of it .