Paris attacks offends my sensiblity as a citizen of a western democracy

If a certain type of Muslim is offended by a cartoon then no one is forcing them to look at it and if a picture of someone crying because innocent people were slaughtered in his name, then it is the moral duty of media to publish the front page of Hebdo on its front page.

In Ireland in 2015, we have now allowed a situation where a self-appointed Muslim censor has taken it upon himself to issue threats about the consequences we will face if the media publishes cartoons. And of course there is silence from a lily livered bland political class.

Enda Kenny and Frances FitzGerald can’t even get nuns to pay for abuse and hand over files so it’s hard to imagine how they’ll deal with Muslim extremism.