FAO Newspaper Editors
Ibn Warraq in Der Spiegel:
Also Munira Mirza at Spiked Online:
A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend. It is a freedom sorely lacking in the Islamic world, and without it Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. Without this fundamental freedom, Islam will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth.Read it all (via Art & Letters Daily).
Also Munira Mirza at Spiked Online:
Censorship in the West bolsters the moral authority of leaders in the Middle East to censor their own citizens.
posted by DFH at 11:53 am
3 Comments:
we need more dissidents like ibn warraq to speak out. lots more.
We need more people in Britain to read his stuff.
get a load of this Daily Telegraph article:
Democracy has a gun to its head
"All such debate is now being carried out in the shadow of murderous intimidation."
looks like the Telegraph seriously weighed up the options - death threats versus not running the cartoons.
If i were a newspaper proprietor , i would not like to have my journalists suddenly have to have 24x7 bodyguard security. i can understand why the Telegraph didnt run the cartoons. but they do make it clear that it was because of the potential of a violent reaction - and thus , as such, prove the original point of the Danish newspaper.
in other words - we truely do NOT have a free press in the UK.
but they do make a dig at Man of Straw.
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