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Monty Python fearlessly sent up Christianity almost three decades ago, but David Baddiel's comedy doesn't come close to doing the same for Islam. Could a film that poked fun at Islam actually get made?

There may well be a funny film to be made about Islam. The Infidel isn't it. This is not because the jokes fall flat, though some have found them to. It's because the film isn't about Islam. It's about cultures, not faiths, and aims to show only that people of different backgrounds should try to get along. To be fair to the film's makers, they claim no other ambition. All the same, a question presents itself. Could a film that did poke fun at Islam actually get made?

Some might say it's unfair to ask: a global mass medium can't be expected to mock things that many people hold sacred. Yet, if this were ever true,...