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When it comes to problems with free speech about Islam, Denmark is something of a hotspot. Islamic radicals murdered Danish film director Theo Van Gogh in 2004 in response to his short film “Submission Part I,” which juxtaposed documentary footage of husbands beating their...
Dutch illustrators are not the only ones who feel intimidated by Islamic fundamentalists. Pressured by extremists, the EU and related organizations hesitated to speak out, waiting until they had practically no choice but to intervene.
Moreover, the protesters are attacking a fundamental value of the state itself. Denmark, as a liberal democracy, holds free speech as a basic value: violence and burning flags (which contained, let it be pointed out, a cross of the Christian faith) are not paths to peace, let alone assimilation. Burning...
But Khalid M. Yasin ’07, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, said the Salient is failing to distinguish between the behavior of those who call themselves Muslims and the religion of Islam itself.
Last semester, controversy erupted over a parody published on The Salient’s back page, which featured a mock ad of a Fulla doll, a Barbie imitation doll sold in the Middle East. The ad suggested that the doll, which is sold with Islamic dress, says programmed phrases such...