Offensiveness Explored

Theodore Dalrymple examines the recent uproar over the play by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti which was hurled from the stage in Birmingham by an outraged Sikh community (or at least, activists proclaiming themselves to represent same):

For some of our intelligentsia, there could be no more reassuring proof of theater’s continuing importance in our society than a riot occasioned by a play. Recently in Birmingham, a mob attacked the local Repertory Theatre, forcing the closure of a play and the evacuation of the audience.