Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?