Charity and restraint
Christopher Bagley believes scatological satire of the prophet Muhammad is wrong
Those who claim journalistic privilege in seeking the right to satirise religion, and religious figures, may have never viewed the original cartoons that enraged some Muslims to the point of murderous madness. During the Paris massacre I was in Europe and viewed with horror and sadness certain cartoons that some journals had seen fit to reproduce in the wake of the mass fugue that ‘We are all Charlie now’.
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