Tag: Free Speech
Danish Cartoonist Calls Home Attack ‘Really Close’
By JOHN F. BURNS January 1, 2010.
Print: New York Times
Somali Muslim tried to kill the Danish cartoonist who drew cartoon of Mohammed, but was shot by the police in the attempt. The Somali Islamist insurgent group Shabab applauded his efforts.
Sued for Criticizing Creationism
Tommi Avicolli-Mecca May 10, 2009.
Print: Beyond Chron
In a ruling against James Corbett, a Capistrano Valley, California high school teacher, a U.S. district court has found that the instructor’s statement on creationism constituted a government employee exhibiting hostility towards religion.
The Free World Bars Free Speech
Jonathan Turley April 12, 2009.
The Washington Post
For years, the Western world has listened aghast to stories out of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations of citizens being imprisoned or executed for questioning or offending Islam. But now an equally troubling trend is developing in the West.
Supreme Court rules that town should not have to erect monument to bizarre sect
Tom Leonard February 25, 2009.
Telegraph.co.uk
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a Utah town should not be forced to erect a monument to a sect which mummifies pets.
