Flemming Rose of the now infamousJyllands-Posten argued that any offense caused by the publication of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad was the price Muslims had to pay to be included in modern society. In other words, you had better get used to being laughed at. Nazim Baksh sees things differently.While offensive humour can sometimes be a blunt instrument employed against the powerful, its use—more often than not—is indicative of deep spiritual crises defending the right of denmark’s Jyllands-Posten to publish a set of caricatures that Muslims believed denigrated the Prophet Muhammad, its culture editor, Flemming Rose, argued that “humour, even offensive humour, brings people together. Because by making fun of people we’re also including them in our society. It’s not always easy for those concerned, but that’s the price they’ve got to pay."

Rose is correct to observe that humour has an innate ability to unite people. Though the fact that a large number of people will laugh at the same jokes during an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm or a Woody Allen film for example, indicates only that humour can lure people into a false assumption that they have a lot more in common than they actually do in reality.