Provocation is not acceptable, nor are insults and offences against religious symbols. Nor should they be acceptable when directed at Christian symbols, but no one in Europe seems to care anymore. In that case, freedom of expression is invoked, while in other cases it is called blasphemy. Is this right? Europe seems to have lost its dignity, allowing itself to be offended and then thinking that its own offences against others are more serious. | Corriere della Sera, 21 February 2006
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