The Dutch police have arrested a man on suspicion of having published offensive cartoons. Remember this is not even criminal here in the United States. Free speech means, and must mean that people will be offended. Some progressives might argue that people are allowed to express hateful feelings such feeling will certainly dominate. However, that assumes that other people will not be critical.
That Europe has wholesale abandoned the concept of the Market Place of ideas is rather troubling. Constantly, I get Europeans telling me how free I am not but I can't think of anyone I might mock and end up in jail. Europe, look around, this looks like Germany in the 1930's.
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