Mick Hartley

A Saudi cleric gets to grips with the tricky problem of freedom of expression:

Freedom of thought, within some constraints, is blessed. Islam calls for thinking, for interpretation, and for the use of the mind. But as for freedom of heresy, which allows anyone to criticize whatever he wants in Islam, saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn’t like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers – this is barbarism.

The barbarism, you see, is the questioning: not the punishments.