Pakistan says Rushdie knighthood justifies suicide bombings

Originally posted by Fatima
Freedom of speech is one thing and deliberate humiliation of cultures and religions and ethical and religious symbols of others something else in the west or north America there is no aboslute freedom ..hey remeber cancellation of art exhibition in New York city that shows a sculpture of choclat for Jesus Christ naked , beside the Jewish lobby in US and their role in changing the facts !

Is it allow in freedom of expression in Western talking about issues such as the crimes of America and Israel or an accident such as the Holocaust, or that freedom of expression that only fitted to insult sacred values of divine religions? 🙄

Of course there are limits to freedom of speech. Where to put those limits is always a tricky thing, but I can assure you when people, mostly Muslims, start threatening with acts of terrorism if something is allowed to continue then that is a damned good reason to actually allow it to take place.

Bowing down for threats or even actual violence is never the right thing to do.

Originally posted by Fatima
Freedom of speech is one thing and deliberate humiliation of cultures and religions and ethical and religious symbols of others something else in the west or north America there is no aboslute freedom ..hey remeber cancellation of art exhibition in New York city that shows a sculpture of choclat for Jesus Christ naked , beside the Jewish lobby in US and their role in changing the facts !

Is it allow in freedom of expression in Western talking about issues such as the crimes of America and Israel or an accident such as the Holocaust, or that freedom of expression that only fitted to insult sacred values of divine religions? 🙄

most "censorship" is self imposed. many museums won't hold certain shows simply because of the controversy. Serrano's Klan pictures or any Mapplethorpe show is very difficult to find, much like the chocolate jesus.

And in western nations it is fine to ***** about isreal and america. My friends and I were talking about how ****ed isreal is now and how it is evil that they are continuing to destabilize palestine at the same time as the conflict is spilling out into Lebanon. Holocaust denial is perfectly allowed.

The thing is, the ONLY people who get pissed off about free speech are the religious or family groups. Thats why religious art is often the target, it is about who is offended, which isn't right, but it does show that religious people may need a bit thicker of a skin.

I think you would be hard pressed to find expression that is just outright banned CURRENTLY in North America (Canada where I live has much stricter hate speech laws than America, so that might be one, same with owning a nazi flag...)