Free Speech: Either We Have it, or We Don't......

Any Westerner who has read the Koran would certainly agree with Houellebecq -- the Koran is indeed incoherent. Its meanderings seem to evince that Mohammed was psychotic; but respect for literary criticism did not stop French Islamic groups from suing Houellebecq. Neither did French courts act rationally and dismiss the Islamic complaint as prima facie worthless. Houellebecq had to go to court. Even though he prevailed, the fact that adjudication was even necessary speaks to the present evisceration of free speech in the Western world.