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From Ibn Warraq, Muslim dissident, in Der Spiegel:
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Ibn Warraq on What's at Stake
From Ibn Warraq, Muslim dissident, in Der Spiegel:
"The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval mindset, or are we going to defend our most precious freedom --freedom of expression, a freedom for which thousands of people sacrificed their lives?...
"On the world stage, should we really apologize for Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe? Mozart, Beethoven and Bach? Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Breughel, Ter Borch? Galileo, Huygens, Copernicus, Newton and Darwin? Penicillin and computers? The Olympic Games and Football? Human rights and parliamentary democracy? The west is the source of the liberating ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, the rule of law, human rights and cultural freedom. It is the west that has raised the status of women, fought against slavery, defended freedom of enquiry, expression and conscience....
"Freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it or it will die from totalitarian attacks. It is also much needed in the Islamic world. By defending our values, we are teaching the Islamic world a valuable lesson, we are helping them by submitting their cherished traditions to Enlightenment values."
Read it all!
- A Well-dressed Thug
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: "When some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others' values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected in such a way.""My position is that freedom of expression, while it is a fundamental...
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The Al Guardian, this mouthpiece for Muslim grievances and generally any wrong, evil, or doomed cause, tells us how to be more sensitive: Turkish Urges Tolerance Toward Muslims Wednesday June 28, 2006 8:16 PM By JAN SLIVA Associated Press Writer STRASBOURG,...
- Eurabia Is Already Here: European Parliament Condemns Danish Cartoons
Via Spanish Eowyn/Blueslord, check out what the EU Parliament is up to: Regarding the Danish cartoons, MEPs and members of parliament from the 25 EU member states as well as the ten Euromed partner countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan,...
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