It's almost like they hate us for our freedoms, or something

France is under attack because it won't adopt laws against blasphemy.

As the government of France warns its citizens that they could be at risk in the wake of the latest Mohammed-cartoons controversy - a controversy, it should be noted, which arose because a teacher was literally beheaded for showing the cartoons in a classroom discussion about freedom of expression - The Spectator’s Kunwar Khuldune Shahid notes the irony in Islamic countries savaging the French while excusing actual anti-Muslim genocide in China:

Emmanuel Macron’s staunch defense of the right to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed proved popular in France. But now the president has a big fight on his hands abroad: French products have been removed from shops in Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan — and calls for a boycott are spreading.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the latest to join in: today he urged Turks to stop buying French goods. In a televised speech, he also told world leaders to intervene ‘if there is oppression against Muslims in France’. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s leade…