An Ottawa imam, Imtiaz Ahmed, has declared his support for freedom of expression but that freedom has to be \u201cbalanced\u201d. He will supply the balance: you can\u2019t make fun of \u201creligious leaders\u201d like, oh, I don\u2019t know, let me take a wild stab \u2013 Mohammed.<\/p>\n
He does denounce the Paris murderers for taking the \u201claw into [their] own hand[s]\u201d but if drawing cartoons of the founder of his religion should be illegal, what penalty would he impose? A liberal Saudi version of sharia, 1000 lashes and ten years in jail<\/a> or a by the book \u2013 sorry, Book – capital punishment?<\/a> He doesn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n An Ottawa imam has denounced the terrorist attack on a Paris weekly newspaper that killed 12 people,\u00a0but he says satirical cartoons of religious leaders should be illegal.<\/p>\n Imtiaz Ahmed, an imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said\u00a0it should be against the law to publish cartoons that depict religious figures in a derogatory way.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course we defend freedom of speech, but it has to be balanced. There has to be a limit. There has to be a code of conduct,\u201d Ahmed said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Ottawa imam, Imtiaz Ahmed, has declared his support for freedom of expression but that freedom has to be \u201cbalanced\u201d. He will supply the balance: you can\u2019t make fun of \u201creligious leaders\u201d like, oh, I don\u2019t know, let me take … Continue reading