Free speech is not absolute

Rights per se have no value. It is in the use to which they are put; it is the restraint and responsibility with which they are exercised.

THE massacre by Muslim gunmen of a dozen employees of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan 7 was an abomination, an outrage, an atrocity and “an evil deed without a name”. It was a savagely disproportionate act of revenge.