An Ottawa imam, Imtiaz Ahmed, has declared his support for freedom of expression but that freedom has to be “balanced”. He will supply the balance: you can’t make fun of “religious leaders” like, oh, I don’t know, let me take a wild stab – Mohammed.

He does denounce the Paris murderers for taking the “law into [their] own hand[s]” but if drawing cartoons of the founder of his religion should be illegal, what penalty would he impose? A liberal Saudi version of sharia, 1000 lashes and ten years in jail or a by the book – sorry, Book – capital punishment? He doesn’t say.

From here:

An Ottawa imam has denounced the terrorist attack on a Paris weekly newspaper that killed 12 people, but he says satirical cartoons of religious leaders should be illegal.

Imtiaz Ahmed, an imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said it should be against the law to publish cartoons that depict religious figures in a derogatory way.

“Of course we defend freedom of speech, but it has to be balanced. There has to be a limit. There has to be a code of conduct,” Ahmed said.