The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons.

Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims.

It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust.

It's not upholding freedom of expression (publishing the cartoons), but an insulting act of blasphemy against Muslim beliefs.

A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of freedom."

(Interview, The Hindu, 2012)

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.