Paris attacks: unless we overcome fear, self-censorship will spread

We take on the powerful - and ask you to admire our bravery - only if they are not a paramilitary force that may kill us We have a blasphemy law. No electorate has approved it. No parliament has passed it. No judge supervises its application and no jury determines guilt beyond reasonable doubt. There's no right of appeal. And the penalty is death. It is enforced not by a police bound by codes of conduct, but by a fear that dare not speak its name; a cowardice so total it lacks the courage to adm...