The Passion of the Christ, with a Benny Hill soundtrack. Yep, this is offensive. I’m not a Christian and it offends me. (Okay, I laughed a bit at the start.)
But imagine if it had been Islam at the butt end of the joke? While the “Benny Hill Passion” is offensive, I doubt it will cause riots.
Normally, I don’t think much of Mark Steyn’s columns, but I found this one kind of fascinating. And if there’s any truth to the stories of the non-coverage of hate crimes in France, deeply frightening. It does lend credence to the hypothesis of William Bennett and Alan Dershowitz that the press is failing us, and not only because it has given the Bush Administration a pass on so much bad behaviour.