On January 7, 2015, Islamist terrorists conducted an attack on the editorial staff of the leftist satire Magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Twelve of its members, five caricaturists among them, were assassinated. The magazine’s repeated satirical portrayal of God was stated as the reason. This bloody deed seemed to be the more contradictory as in the digital age we live in today, the picture in its widest sense is omnipresent. For approximately two decades humanity has been able to distribute any picture to any network free of charge. Obviously and technically, there is nothing that cannot be depicted. Despite this, the image prohibition of the Old Testament is still at work – even in the digital age. This article does not intend to plea for understanding the terror attack but to analyse the conflict potential of specific pictorial depictions and the prohibition of images, respectively.