Solidarity 350, 21 January 2015

Cameron versus the Pope

The Pope’s repsonse to the murderous attack on the journalists and workers at Charlie Hebdo was essentially “the wife beater’s defence”. “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal... You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.” David Cameron made an uncharacteristically robust and perhaps slightly controversial response to the Pope. In a widely reported interview he said: “I think in a free society, there is a right to cause offence about someone's religion. “I’m a Christian...

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