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...same time, Western democracies?? support for freedom of thought and expression mean that radical theocratic attitudes like the one held by Hamas’ Jamila Al Shany—“no one can say a bad word about our prophet”— cannot be upheld. The media should continue to have the right to publish cartoons and images even if certain groups may find them offensive, as long as those images do not justify or demand violence. Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons did neither of these things. Furthermore, they were cartoons...
...said that he plans to study “the education of children in post-colonial states and emerging democracies?? at Cambridge University...
...appropriate place to express his condemnation of Mahathir’s insidious words. That begs the question, then, of what an “appropriate” venue to denounce racism would be. Surely one would have thought that a meeting of the world’s great liberal democracies??nations committed to the ideals of freedom, and pluralism—would be the ideal pulpit from which to take a strong stand against racism. What better place to face down the ugly visage of anti-Semitism than the meeting of an organization born out of the ashes...
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