Pope’s Imam Demands Global Blasphemy Law Nice jihad: Bishops mum on Islam's teaching on mocking Muhammad NICE, France (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis' Muslim dialogue partner Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb has demanded an international law banning criticizing or insulting Islam — a day before three Catholics were slaughtered in Nice's Notre-Dame Basilica. Brazilian-born Simone Barreto Silva, killed in Notre-Dame Al-Tayyeb, who signed the Abu Dhabi Human Fraternity pact with Pope Francis, said the republication of Muhammad cartoons by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in early September were "an explicit act of hostility" against Islam and its prophet. "Cartoons insulting our great prophet, which are...