The recent firebombing of the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has once again revived the debate on the relation between free speech and Islam. In this case, the magazine's "crime" was to feature a caricature of Mohammed on its front cover and a "guest editor" role for the founder of Islam, as part of the publication's satirical musings on the Islamist party Ennahda's winning of a plurality of seats in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly elections.
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