Yet another incident shows us how we have to be fighting back to ensure the west continues to be about free speech and not sensitivity training.
This article criticizing the recent UN Rapporteur who was in charge of guarding free speech has had his job title manipulated by Islamic countries to now look for instances of "offense being done to Islam." This article has caused rioting, and the arrest of a Indian journalist who re-published this article in India in support of free speech.
Here's the original article (UK):
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The right to criticise religion is being slowly doused in acid. Across the world, the small, incremental gains made by secularism – giving us the space to doubt and question and make up our own minds – are being beaten back by belligerent demands that we "respect" religion. A historic marker has just been passed, showing how far we have been shoved. The UN rapporteur who is supposed to be the global guardian of free speech has had his job rewritten – to put him on the side of the religious censors.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...s-1517789.html
The resulting story of the editor being arrested for the reprinting:
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The editor and publisher of a major Indian newspaper have been arrested for "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims after they reprinted an article from The Independent. Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, the editor and publisher of the Kolkata-based English daily The Statesman, appeared in court yesterday charged under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which forbids "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings".
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-1607256.html
The follow up to the original article on the rioting and the editors arrest in India by the original writer:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...e-1608059.html