The Last Sacred Cow: Why Islam Must Be Criticised

And an examination of whether Muhammad existed. Don't get mad; one can ask questions like this in a free country.

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We live at a time when one may mock Christians as credulous yokels, demonise Jews, depict Moses as a crank with a tablet fetish, laugh at Buddhist mysticism as stoned vagueness, or lampoon Hindus for their panoply of blue-skinned gods.

Yet let the satirist’s pen scratch the surface of Islam, and all of a sudden the guardians of “safety” stir, the human rights commissars sharpen their pencils, and the mob — literal or digital — prepares its noose.