It's at the very core of our culture that the most sacred things can be subjected to criticism, laughter and satire. If we stop using our journalistic right of freedom of expression within legal boundaries then we start to have a kind of appeasement mentality. |
It's not a double standard because it's the right of every culture to have its own taboos. |
This had now become a huge political story. In a secular Western society, a prime minister and a newspaper had to issue an apology for exercising their right to satire. |