And the news media, especially Arabic-language satellite channels, are brimming with blatantly offensive sectarian sentiments and contributing to an atmosphere of crisis and impending disaster — prompted in no small measure by the nefarious work of bigoted and ignorant clerics, often inspired by the intolerant ideology of Wahhabist Islam.
A man who wore a homemade T-shirt containing an offensive anti-police sentiment in the immediate aftermath of the deaths of PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes has been jailed for a total of eight months.
(A much less offensive one and a sentiment I can really get behind; I detest that ubiquitous herb).
The chanted slogans on the streets have been banned (for the duration of the Olympics), Jew-baiting, bellicose sentiments, everything offensive has disappeared from the papers until August 16, and the swastika flags are hanging everywhere day and night until then too.
The Indian Constitution offers its citizens only a qualified right to free speech and allows the government to restrict speech if it deems it offensive or unacceptable to community sentiments.
Now the American author can add a new accolade to her collection: the trilogy of books were some of the most complained-about titles in the US last year, with readers upset at the violence, offensive language and "anti-family" sentiments portrayed in the novels.
Lovensheimer states that a postwar American audience would have found such onstage sentiments to be offensive.
Nonetheless, he said, bringing up the BP controversy, "I think the current anti-Brit sentiment is a little offensive".
Center Nick Mangold characterized the Patriots' wobbling as misleading, saying that their statistics did not correspond with what the Jets had watched on videotape, a sentiment echoed by the offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer.
Many Chinese bloggers and commentators feel the debate is offensive, and rooted in deeper anti-China sentiments.
