Woody Allen can make politically incorrect jokes about Jews, or so it is accepted. He is Jewish and a permanent object of study for psychoanalysis (he makes politically incorrect jokes about women as well, as a matter of fact). Well, it seems then that Ahmed Aboutaleb can make jokes about Muslims.

Last year, the re-elected mayor of Rotterdam, who is Moroccan-born, told Muslim immigrants who do not adapt that they can ‘fuck off’. Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, who arrived in the Netherlands when he was ...