The Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said during European Union talks here, "The prime minister of Malaysia used gravely offensive expressions, expressions that were strongly anti-Semitic".
"While these are the views of the player, which they are free to express, Barcelona feels it necessary to clarify that it does not share these offensive expressions that have been published".
"Langit Makin Mendung" has been described as being written with crude and offensive expressions.
We encounter offensive expression all the time.
It is wrong, however, to call a disabled person, "crippled," "handicapped" or any other antiquated or offensive expression.
Schoenberg's refusal was based not on an assessment of the extent of the sketches, but on the discovery that the libretto allowed a character to use the highly offensive expression "Saujud", meaning "pig-Jew".
UK laws outlaw hate speech and criminalise grossly offensive expression, but because there have been very few court cases over artistic expression, boundaries are often controlled by non-judicial considerations such as public opinion and taste, Index notes.
Were, you see, recently posted a mock tourism poster on his website that began with an offensive expression and got worse: "We've got fucking dragons, stunning birds, hard blokes, tidy mountains, male voice choirs, lots of sheep".
"Even if the three arrested women did take part in the protest," Amnesty said on Thursday, "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities – the detention on the serious criminal charge of hooliganism – would not be a justifiable response to the peaceful – if, to many, offensive – expression of their political beliefs.
In a new book about the Barcelona forward, it is suggested that the Real Madrid player routinely refers to the Argentine with an offensive expression. .
I sent a tweet to @Twitter and @Jack Dorsey, suggesting that they remove the offensive expression from the Trending list, but received no response.
