In a country like France in which freedom of expression should be cherished, it is being maligned. It almost seems as if this ad was banned because it was anti-Islamophobic not because of its political and religious connotations.

Britain has no constitutional separation of church and state. The archbishop noted that “the law of the Church of England is the law of the land” there; indeed, ecclesiastical courts that once handled marriage and divorce are still integrated into the British legal system, deciding matters of church property and doctrine.