Funny is an excuse.
It is used as a tool to belittle something that is on the list to be brought or kept down.
It's been used for forever as a wedge to start the demonization process.
Try doing that to some serious Native American symbols, or Moslem symbols or even Buddhist symbols, or, heaven forbid, gay rights.
PC police would be down your throat in a second, and if you didn't do it right, you could even been accused of hate crime.
Not on Halloween!
I've seen some incredibly offensive Muslim, Native and gay-themed Haloween costumes, and nobody was arrested for it.
PC police would be down your throat in a second
Who are the PC police, exactly? I've never enocuntered them.
and if you didn't do it right, you could even been accused of hate crime.
People can accuse you of lots of things, but nobody is charged with a crime for wearing a Halloween costume that people find offensive.
Yes indeed, cartoons depicting the Holy Prophet are a blasphemy, and the perpetrators must be punished so that no one dare again use the vile excuse of freedom of speech to mock the Holy one.
Oh wait . . .