({{AFP}}) – {British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the right to speech that gives offense to others’ religious beliefs, in a rebuttal to Pope Francis who said there should be limits.}<\/p>\n
In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Cameron said the West must show that its values, like free speech, are stronger than those of Islamist extremists pursuing a “poisonous death cult narrative.”<\/p>\n
“I think in a free society, there is a right to cause offense about someone’s religion. I’m a Christian. If someone says something offensive about Jesus, I might find that offensive but in a free society I don’t have a right to wreak my vengeance upon them,” Cameron said.<\/p>\n
“We have to accept that newspapers, magazines can publish things that are offensive to some as long as it’s within the law,” he said.<\/p>\n
Cameron, who was interviewed after his meeting here Friday with US President Barack Obama, was responding to the pope’s comments suggesting that religion should be off limits.<\/p>\n
“There are limits,” the pope said in Manila Thursday, weighing in on a debate set off in the wake of a deadly attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have angered many in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n
Twelve people, including some of France’s best known cartoonists, were killed January 7 by two gunmen who stormed its office. In all, 17 people were killed in three days of related attacks in Paris.<\/p>\n
“You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people’s faith, you cannot mock it,” the pontiff said.<\/p>\n
“Freedom of speech is a right and a duty that must be displayed without offending.”<\/p>\n
Charlie Hebdo’s new editor in chief, meanwhile, defended the caricatures in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”<\/p>\n
“Every time we draw a cartoon of Mohammed, every time we draw a cartoon of prophets, every time we draw a cartoon of God, we defend the freedom of religion,” the editor Gerard Biard.<\/p>\n
“Yes, it’s also the freedom of speech, but it’s the freedom of religion. Religion should not be a political argument.”<\/p>\n
“If God becomes entangled in politics, then democracy is in danger,” Biard added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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