Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Freedom of Expression

"On September 11, 2012, U.S. diplomatic missions in Cairo, Egypt, and Benghazi, Libya, were attacked by protestors, beginning a series of violent and non-violent protests outside U.S. and other Western diplomatic missions in Muslim communities across the world."

So reads the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article, 2012 diplomatic missions attacks. These attacks were primarily a backlash of a movie made in the United States by a few degenerates mocking the primary figure and religion of more than 1.5 billion people.

As ugly as the film and the violence that succeeded it are, it brought the subject of the freedom of expression and speech back on the discussion tables, especially the accusations of double standards in the limitations of freedom of expression.