Epigraph:
Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149)
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom & no such thing as publick liberty without freedom of speech: Benjamin Franklin, 1722. For TMT collection on free speech, click here
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What Pamela Geller Advocates Is Not Free Speech
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid is an attorney, author of EXTREMIST, and national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. There’s an important history behind America’s free speech laws to which…
Rabbi Marc Schneier: On Public Transport: Support Free Speech, Not Hate Speech
Source: Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier; President, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding I am a strong supporter of the right to free speech guaranteed in the First Amendment to the…
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Germany: Ex-Pegida Frontwoman Kathrin Oertel Apologizes for Anti-Islam Statements
HuffPost Germany | By Susanne Klaiber Posted: 05/06/2015 8:27 pm EDT Updated: 05/06/2015 8:59 pm EDT The speech is touching, in a way. Sometimes, it’s even astonishing. But in the…
Myths about Terrorism and Islam in Western Europe
Religion is rarely the cause of terrorism but the portrayal of Islam suggests otherwise. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, Islamist terrorism has remained in the focus…
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United States free speech exceptions
European Convention of Human Rights
I think many of the exceptions for freedom of speech are tackled in the Article 10 of European Convention of Human Rights.
This Article provides the right to freedom of expression, subject to certain restrictions that are “in accordance with law” and “necessary in a democratic society”. This right includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to receive and impart information and ideas, but allows restrictions for:
We would certainly need the best legal minds humanity can offer to give concrete and legalistic details of the above exceptions that may be acceptable to people of all faiths, ethnicities and nationalities.
If the Supreme Court Justices do not come to our rescue, may be a good and an accomplished writer can help out with a best selling book. But, the key is to at least, win the moderates, in all the established religions of the world and among the agnostics and atheists.