Many people disagreed with the pope who said that freedom of speech has its limits. While he says killing in the name of religion is wrong, it is also wrong to insult other people's religion. I would not equate insulting with killing of course. But the Pope gives an example that if someone calls his mother a bad name, he would have punched him. I would agree with the Pope on this: human beings can be provoked into doing something violent. The Pope would be wrong to punch the guy but it would be an action that was not surprising. In the case of the Paris terrorism, there is no question of the heinous crime. The cartoonists had the right to write what they want, but what purpose did it served? Everyone has the right to walk in the worst areas of the city at 3 am, but why would you?
To paraphrase Tina Fey at the Golden Globe award: thanks to North Korea, we are forced to watch a bad movie. Same with the Charlie magazine which is selling like hot cakes. People who thought that making fun of Muhammad for the action of extreme Muslims is like making fun of Jesus for Christian criminals, are now buying Charlie. So it goes to show you, when you go extreme against something, it usually make that thing more popular. Whenever the Catholics protest a movie, it would help increase its box office. This is something to keep in mind when we try to solve problems with blinding force without thinking it through.
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