Free Speech and Radical Islam
We need a global movement to fight blasphemy and other insult laws, and the European Union should lead the way by removing them. Europe should…
Blasphemy Is Not Racism
We’re in a clash of ideologies. The liberal western tradition of freedom of speech (however tarnished) is anathema to fundamentalist Islam.
Europe’s politics of victimology
Europe must shed the straitjacket of political correctness, which makes it impossible to criticize minorities for anything.
Blasphemy: A Victimless Crime or a Crime in Search of a Victim?
We need a serious debate about free speech in a globalized world in order to avoid ad hoc, short-term decisions to calm emotions.
Flemming Rose – From Where I Stand
The Cartoon Crisis, as it came to be known, spiraled into a violent fiasco as Muslims around the world erupted in protest of the images.
Mass Murder and Satire
What kind of civilization is this if we cannot mock those who blow up trains and planes and commit mass-murder of innocent people?
Moral and Political Secularism
The critic must be able to place himself or herself over against the religious tradition. That presupposes what may be called moral autonomy.
Words and deeds
The widely made claim that hate speech against the Jews was a primary factor of the Holocaust has no empirical support.
Is There Another Way to Discover the Truth than by Free Discussion?
Many people (including the Pope) think that if speech is left free, false views will generally be more easily adopted than true ones.
Can hate speech be eradicated?
An increasingly multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious world doesn’t call for less diversity of speech, but for more.
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