`` It does n't have a huge readership , but it has always had a very controversial approach to the news , '' Dickey told CNN . `` To see it silenced this way , especially after it survived a firebombing of its headquarters three years ago , is really reprehensible . '' Gunmen attacked satirical magazine 's offices in Paris , officials said . Charlie Hebdo has courted controversy before with satirical articles on religious extremism . It 's offices were burned down in 2011 after it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad .
Gunmen attacked satirical magazine 's offices in Paris , officials said . Charlie Hebdo has courted controversy before with satirical articles on religious extremism . It 's offices were burned down in 2011 after it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad .