Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
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Ten years after the Danish cartoon crisis, it’s time to discuss how freedom of religion and freedom of speech can coexist.
In the strange parallel world where free speech means causing offence and taking offence means revenge, life and death go on ad nauseam.
After the violent attacks on Charlie Hebdo – the French satirical weekly that routinely published caricatures of Muhammad – many are wondering: are depictions of Muhammad actually forbidden in Islamic…
In any terrorist attack by Muslim extremists perpetrated in the name of Islam – such as the recent Charlie Hebdo atrocity – discussions about the Prophet Muhammad, his life and his teachings come to the…
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Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies, St. Edward's University
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Associate Professor, Memory Studies, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University