The French magazine “Charlie Hebdo” is at it once again, its people told the press yesterday that they plan to take out the weekly edition with caricatures of the prophet Mohammed and go another round with the local French muslims, who by the way burned the offices of Charlie Hebdo last time the magazine published offensive… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Free Speech
The West Battered Person Syndrome
This “Battered person syndrome” which is actually and originally called battered wife syndrome is exactly how Islamic anger is met through out the Western world, here is what it means (form the Wiki page) – Additionally, repeated cycles of violence and reconciliation can result in the following beliefs and attitudes: ▪ The abused thinks that the… Continue Reading
The Ignorance of Middle East Muslims
Things are heating up, as they always do following the believers of Islam going wild over one insult or another. The news can been seen as trivial and banal, same old anger over the same old topics, some can see it as intended aggravation of a group of people known for being easily angered over… Continue Reading
Who Made the Muhammed Movie – and Why?
Its appears that a man named Sam Bacile is the writer-producer-director of the film that set Egypt and Libya on fire yesterday, even though the film’s teaser was uploaded to YouTube 2 months ago – took them so long to find out? or was it just a certain day was preferred for the “protests”? Anyway,… Continue Reading
Anonymous Ideas Are Not Always Great
Yesterday news told one story about the hacker group “Anonymous” wanting to shut down internet traffic, or at least make it very slow, on the end of March this year. We have, in the past, covered some of the actions of this group with admiration, because many times they stand up against systems and ideas… Continue Reading
Murder Is Never Out of Style (In Some Minds)
As you can probably guess this blog stands firmly for the right of anyone to express himself, and the right of anyone else to be offended by it, and that’s just as much words we need to waste on this obvious issue. So it was somewhat of a surprise to see the name Lars Vilks… Continue Reading
A Proud French Tradition
Free speech.… Continue Reading
Israel Got Issues With Free Speech
Israel’s parliament has spent time and energy passing a law which is, amazingly enough, anti democratic and anti free speech, and all of this is because it seems that Israel’s prime minister and foreign minister are determined to show the world and their own voters that they will go to great lengths to protect the… Continue Reading
Europe Is Still Free
Europe still supports the freedom of speech and expression, the Netherlands has freed Geert Wilders and cleared his name. Well done Holland. Here is the full news item, from “The Telegraph”… Continue Reading
How to Know When Free Speech Is Real
This one is going to be easy, you know free speech when it hits you, when you hear something you really do not like hearing, when the person in front of you has an opinion that is contradictory, even to the degree of offensive to yours. Free speech is not out there for all of… Continue Reading