Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, one of at least 12 people killed Wednesday when gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical French magazine, was a fierce defender of the magazine's right to publish material that some might find offensive, though he has also defended the right for people to be offended, NBC News reported. "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings," Stephane Charbonnier, who went by the pen name Charb, told Reuters in 2012. "I live under French law. I don't live under Quranic law." The Associated Press, citing a police union spokesperson, reported that Charbonnier was in an editorial meeting when he was shot dead. Charb, who took over the magazine in 2009 and was one of France's best-known cartoonists, was under police protection in the past. Slate reported in 2013 that he had appeared on an al-Qaida hit list.
