On January 14, 2015, following the "Charlie Hebdo" shooting, in a tweet which he described as satirical, Walsh called for Islamists to "behead" reporters on CNN and MSNBC and referred to them as "appeasing cowards" for not airing cartoons published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which depicts prophet Muhammad. In another tweet, Walsh stated that not showing cartoons of Muhammad would lead to more attacks.