Tag: Freedom Of Speech
‘South Park’ creators warned: Poking fun at Muhammed could invite deadly Muslim rage
Michael Sheridan April 22, 2010.
Print: NYDailyNews.com
RevolutionMuslim.com posted a warning following the 200th episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park,’ which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit.
Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book
PATRICIA COHEN August 12, 2009.
Print: New York Times
Apparently there is no freedom of speech where Islam is concerned. Yale University Press censored itself by decided not to include 12 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a book by Jytte Klauson titled “The Cartoons That Shook the World.”
Wikipedia blocks access from Church of Scientology in L.A.
Kate Linthicum June 4, 2009.
Print: Los Angeles Times
The Internet encyclopedia aims to stop pro-Scientology revisions of articles. Some critics of the religion have also been banned. The moves raise free-speech concerns.
New Archbishop gets rap from NSS for self-serving “faith school” comments
June 4, 2009.
Print: National Secular Society
New Archbishop gets rap from NSS for self-serving “faith school” comments
Apple: You Can’t Play Jesus on iPhone
Brian X. Chen May 12, 2009.
Print: Wired
Apple has rejected an iPhone app that would enable users to fashion their mugs into portraits resembling Jesus Christ.
The Right to Offend: A Speech by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali May 12, 2009.
Print: NRC Handelsblad
It is my conviction that the vulnerable enterprise called democracy cannot exist without free expression, particularly in the media. Journalists must not forgo the obligation of free speech, which people in other hemispheres are denied.
Religion and human rights: The meaning of freedom
April 1, 2009.
Economist
Why freedom of speech must include the right to “defame” religions
Christian school receptionist row: More bishops speak out in support of Jennie Cain
Martin Beckford and Caroline Gammell February 13, 2009.
Telegraph.co.uk
Christianity is not just something that happens between consenting adults behind closed doors a bishop has said as support grows for the receptionist who faces the sack in a row with her school over religion.
