There simply cannot be a better day to talk about freedom of speech than on the very day we set aside to honor those who gave their lives to protect our freedom. An alarmist is not someone you want writing a weekly column, but at some point, and perhaps sooner than later, and alarm does…
Today our freedom of speech seems virtually unrestricted: from online forums to raunchy TV comedy and burgeoning media investigations, the channels for free expression are greater than ever. But controversies over how far we can take this First Amendment right are alive and well. In our region, protests over a D.C.-based play have set off…
The recent killing of Bangladeshi blogger Ananta Bijoy Das on May 12 was not the first of its kind in Bangladesh. In fact, there have been at least seven assassination attempts on secularist bloggers and activists like Das since 2013. Three of these murders have been in the past four months and the death threats…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” I am reminded about this timeless quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as hatred and violent attacks fill the airwaves. As an American and as an Ahmadi Muslim, I condemn the attack in Garland,…
We do have the freedom of free speech in America. Which means that Lonnie Bailey can say anything he wants to even if he doesn’t know what he is talking about and makes no sense at all what so ever. Adam and Eve did have free will and that is why He allowed the serpent…
Boycott Chinese Goods (as much as you can). The worst aspect of communism has always been the totalitarian control of the people. Chinese people have no freedom of speech. They have little or no say in their government. How old is the person who made your shoes? How much money is he or she paid…
Greenpeace India on Thursday invited its supporters from around the world to sign an open letter to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urging him to support free speech in India. “I am asking for thousands of people around the world to join me in standing up for Greenpeace India and speaking up for freedom,” Samit…
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has moved the Supreme Court challenging certain provisions in the IPC relating to hate speech and seeking a declaration that they are unconstitutional as they violated freedom of speech and expression. A vacation of bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and U.U. Lalit directed the matter to be listed before another bench…
Alexandra Fuller, author of Leaving Before The Rains Come, recently spoke at an event at the Seattle Public Library. In the podcast, Fuller says this book, her fourth, is the most scary to speak about because it is about her. In her first two books, Fuller wrote about her mother. Throwing her mother’s character under…
Freedom of speech is under threat today. Not only in Europe, where I come from. But also here, in America. The last time I was in the United States was less than two weeks ago. I was in Garland, Texas, where I gave the keynote speech at a contest of Muhammad cartoons. The contest was…