The “Innocence of Muslims” case marked the first time in the United States in nearly a century that a man was imprisoned over the hostile reaction to his speech. The precedent for that had already been set with the Koran burnings and the Mohammed cartoons, but for the first time the United States acted on the concept that the outcome of speech determines its protected nature.
A panel of scholars sheds light on “Freedom of Speech vs. Blasphemy in Islam.”
Accept that we are part of a global society and that a billion Muslims get a vote on what we can and cannot say. Laws can no longer be adapted to individual nations, but must reflect global concerns and a global consensus. Freedom of speech may be an American approach, but it is no longer feasible in a global connected society.
Orwellian mischief from the European Union and United Nations.
Three courageous anti-Putin feminist punk musicians await their fate in a Moscow court.
