Have a chat with Code Monkey (http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/2007/12/there_is_no_compulsion_in_reli.php).
The letters in the Guardian aren't exactly ringing in their defense of free expression... (one refer to Sudan having descended into zealotry - but doesn't say that the zealots have actually done anything beyond the pale. Another says that Ms. Gibbons should receive a token fine - that's like arguing that Darrow was wrong and Bryan was right...)
Further, the real issue isn't that there are a handful of reasonable people somewhere writing in English - it's the gazillion unreasonable people speaking and writing in Arabic on Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabia and the parts of the Islamic press. I'm glad to see that there are sparks of decency - but boy, there sure are buried in an avalanche of horror.
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Date: 2007-12-10 12:08 am (UTC)The letters in the Guardian aren't exactly ringing in their defense of free expression... (one refer to Sudan having descended into zealotry - but doesn't say that the zealots have actually done anything beyond the pale. Another says that Ms. Gibbons should receive a token fine - that's like arguing that Darrow was wrong and Bryan was right...)
Further, the real issue isn't that there are a handful of reasonable people somewhere writing in English - it's the gazillion unreasonable people speaking and writing in Arabic on Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabia and the parts of the Islamic press. I'm glad to see that there are sparks of decency - but boy, there sure are buried in an avalanche of horror.
c.f. MEMRI (http://www.memri.org/index.html).