Muslims and free speech
The estimable Sunny Hundal has a good article on CiF today explaining why the religious in general – and Muslims in particular – should embrace the principles of free speech, even if it sometimes hurts.
Freedom of speech and expression has allowed minorities in the UK to dress in the ways they want to, live how they want to and practice their own beliefs within the law.
And,
While Jews and Christians have become more politically astute in realising that creating a stink only backfires in their faces, most Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims are woefully immature in this regard. Free speech is especially important for minority groups because when there is a crackdown through legislation on “unpopular” thoughts, it usually affects them disproportionately. It’s about time they realised this.
Go read it all.
LOL! Yeah. They’ll probably put a fat wanker on him for having the temerity to say that.
nice to see some sense in the grauniad for a change!
pity about a lot of the comments, though… 🙂
Oh, and marc, yeh, wonder what the “community leaders” might have to say about it?
Found an area on Facebook (which is being remarkably restrained right now) which has an entry Fuck Islam. It also has Fuck All Religion – where one well spoken atheist has an exchange with a rather dumb theist. It’s really rather funny.
O well go on. Here it is! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2247335588