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)
These two pictures capture the two extremes of the debate on free speech
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The Muslim Times Collecting Every Thing Useful about Free Speech
Epigraph: The Quranic challenge and freedom: And if you are in doubt as to what We have sent down to Our servant, then produce a Chapter like it, and call…
Bangladesh blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death
Source: BBC A secular blogger in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since the start of the year, police say. Ananta…
Speech Should Inspire Peace–not Hate
Source: Patheos By Saima Sheikh Recently, American Freedom Defense Initiative or AFDI, which is co founded by Pamela Geller, hosted a cartoon drawing contest of Prophet Muhammad of Islam in Garland,…
The Muslim Times Building its Portfolio on Free Speech and its Limitations
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) …
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Source; New York Times By The Editorial Board There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the…
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…
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…
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…
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