Muslim-majority countries need to get a grip.

First Turkey jails a 16-year-old boy for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then Mauritania sentences a journalist to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Really? In the 21st Century? We haven’t figured out the benefits of free speech?

How can a Muslim possibly believe Muhammad is harmed in any way by something someone has said or written! (Now, politicians like Erdogan…that falls under the category of “thin skinned”.)

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