Democracy in a Cartoon
By Ibn Warraq
Best-selling author and Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq argues that freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it against attacks from totalitarian societies. If the west does not stand in solidarity with the Danish, he argues, then the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest.
The great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, “Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme’; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.”
The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval mindset, or are we going to defend our most precious freedom — freedom of expression, a freedom for which thousands of people sacrificed their lives?
An article well worth the read!
What really started the Muslim anti-cartoon rampag
As reported many places over the past few days, most recently here, there is a lot more to this Muhammed cartoon row than meets the eye. When Danish Imams who originally protested the cartoons could not drum up enough of the appropriate outrage and v…
Trackback by Mark in Mexico — February 4, 2006 @ 10:13 pm