The protests against controversial film “Innocence of the Muslims” follow a pattern familiar since the days of the Satanic Verses fatwa, says James Kirchick. And so do the reactions of many western liberals
Response: Myriam Francois-Cerrah | Film protests about much more than religion
The smoke had barely cleared from the burned-out office of Charlie Hebdo magazine – firebombed for publishing cartoons of Mohammed – when TIME magazine’s Bruce Crumley chose to criticise the satirists before the terrorist. James Kirchick denounces a too-familiar tendancy
Plus: Sara Yasin and Myriam Francois-Cerrah on France, Charlie Hebdo and the meaning of Mohammed