In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons

Defending free speech and free press rights,which typically means defending the right to disseminate the very ideas society finds most repellent, has been one of my principal passionsfor the last 20 years:previouslyas a lawyer and now as a journalist. So I consider it positive when large numbers of people loudlyinvoke this principle, as has been happening over the last 48 hours in response to the horrific attack onCharlie Hebdo in Paris.

Usually, defending free speech rights is much more of a...