Brendan O'Neill: It’s time we all stood up for the right to ridicule Islam

A man was executed for blasphemy in Europe yesterday. In the heart of the EU, which boasts to the world about its culture of tolerance, a man was shot in cold blood seemingly for the ‘crime’ of deriding the Koran. Anyone who doubts that Europe is in a dark place right now will surely have a rude awakening following this grim slaying of a man who some judged to be insufficiently godly.