One victim killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks was Muslim police officer Ahmed Merabet

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5. Should the west pass blasphemy laws?

Most of these shootings and acts of violence have to do with blasphemy laws under Islam.

Polling shows a sig amount of Islamic people favor killing somebody for insulting Muhammed. So as long as you allow satire and free speech in the west a certain segment of those people would be willing to break our laws and kill people they see as blasphemers.

We have insulted Christianity in the US for a long time, think Hustler/Falwell and Mapplethorpe and his photos, but without real violence, but certainly offensive. Yet we have more and more Muslims living here, most peaceful but who do support killing blasphemers.

So to avoid violence since killing for blasphemy which is so widely accepted by Islamic people should we pass laws for blasphemy so that people who say insult Muhammed and the Pope would be fined?

That might prevent further violent attacks.