Words Worth Noting - August 14, 2025

“The killing of Salwan Momika is an outrage. He seems to have been executed for criticising Islam, for daring to desecrate the Koran. It is medieval savagery to kill a man for mocking a religion. We must defend the right to blaspheme, says Brendan O’Neill”

A classic Terrible Middle Ages attribution of a 21st-century act based on a 7th-century religion for no reason except Medieval is the worst word they can think of, in the teaser to an article on Spiked [which to be fair did not contain this tortured analogy] on X Jan. 30, 2025