Absolutely. It feels especially jarring to hear this from a paper based in the UK, with its notoriously muzzling libel laws. Then again, libel laws tend to defe

Absolutely. It feels especially jarring to hear this from a paper based in the UK, with its notoriously muzzling libel laws. Then again, libel laws tend to defend the rich and powerful, who are much more a part of the Economist's readership than the typically poor immigrant Muslim communities who are endangered by hate speech calls for violence.