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...more Kosher segment of the book deals with Moses, perhaps the world’s most famous stammerer. Shell notes that Moses experienced outbursts of rage common to frustrated stutterers—the breaking of the first set of commandments may have been one such incident...
Some might say that the University is not the right place for that pursuit. Others migh say it is, and maybe they’ll end up living longer and more fulfilling lives. The debate can rage, but whether it’s the children of light or the children of darkness who emerge at the end of the line, Ben-Shahar will still be lecturing to over a thousand students per week...
...prophet as a terrorist, further incensed Muslims, for whom any depiction of Mohammed is sacrilegious. Despite the odious nature of this and other similar cartoons, however, the response from the Middle East exemplifies its disrespect for such central values of democracy as free speech and press. The rage of many in the Muslim world over the printing and reprinting of these blasphemous cartoons threatens those very freedoms. Regardless of the content of a cartoon, pamphlet, drawing, or any form of expression, citizens must be at liberty to herald their deepest beliefs without fear of reproach or censorship from government...
...over the cartoons of the Prophet, you can do jail time for publicly "ridiculing or insulting" any recognized community's religious beliefs. That's the problem with free speech: the principle is fine, the application is very tricky, and never more so than in the age of cultural rage. Statutes writ in black and white transmute to a fog of grays upon contact with the passions of competing groups and the difficulties of balancing individual conscience against social cohesion. Some limits, such as libel laws, are considered legitimate to protect individuals, while other restrictions, such as those that regulate obscenity...
Hamouda and other Muslims across the Middle East point out that the eruption of rage over the cartoons coincided with the electoral success of religious parties in Egypt, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, as well as the escalating confrontation over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Those developments have emboldened forces in the region who benefit from seeing the frustration felt by Muslims about their lives channeled into hostility toward the West, forces that range from radical clerics to secular Arab autocrats. In that sense, the cartoon uproar may have a lot less to do with religion or culture than with politics...