US Groups Fight Bigotry Without Blasphemy Laws

Last week’s killings in Paris were carried out by militants professing to avenge the Prophet Mohammad. When they attacked the office of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store, they slaughtered iconoclastic cartoonists and Jews shopping for kosher food, shot dead a Muslim policeman in the line of duty, and unleashed an emotional debate about blasphemy, bigotry and the limits of free speech. France, like other European countries, has laws against anti-Semitism and...

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