I'll briefly touch on this because it isn't true. Look at drone strikes in Yemen or Pakistan, the victims are almost always innocent civilians. Or Israel bombing Gaza. In these cases, innocent Muslims are killed.
What I wanted to do most in this thread was point out hypocrisy. Today in Paris lots of people marched for freedom and to express solidarity with victims of terrorism. Included were many world leaders who are at least partly responsible for imprisonment, torture, or murder of journalists. I'm pretty sure that Netanyahu from Israel (many journalists dead in Gaza in 2014) and Abbas from Hamas (jailed journalists) both attended. I know Ali Bongo from Gabon was there (former French colony, today home to ritual killings, organ harvesting, and the persecution of journalists who report on it). Eric Holder. Friqqin' ASSAD in Syria made a statement. Various officials from the Middle East and North Africa who crack down on opposition journalists. These people are praising freedom in the march, yet they do not allow freedoms to their own citizens. I personally consider many of these high-profile attendees "passive" terrorists because they have power to prevent violence and don't - but don't think I consider them the same as "active" terrorists. And finally, the single most disappointing fact in all of this for me: during Israel's campaign in Gaza last summer, Paris banned pro-Palestinian protests. Do you see why I find this solidarity bittersweet? It's because it's so often reserved for the privileged.
I feel you, there's a lot of hypocrisy in this march, like you said some important people attended it while they don't give a shit about freedom of speech, BUT for the majority it was just all the French people showing or trying to show they are not scared, that they wont stop writing what they do, that there will still be freedom of speech, and most and foremost to grieve with what just happened in their country so it's kinda hard to say it's the entire march that's hypocrit ...