WELK PRIJSKAARTJE HANGT AAN DE VRIJHEID VAN MENINGSUITING?

​Een jaar na de aanslag op het kantoor van Charlie Hebdo: hoe is het gesteld met de vrijheid van meningsuiting en welke prijs wil men daarvoor betalen? Op de website van het Ayn Rand Institute stelt jurist Steve Simpson dat 'Free thinking individuals do not submit. They question, they discuss, they debate, they use reason to pursue the evidence to wherever it leads them.' Maar wie wil de volgende Salman Ruhsdie of Theo van Gogh zijn? 

"Je Suis Charlie” No Longer: A Year After the Attacks, Is the West Betraying Free Speech? 
"One year ago today, Islamic terrorists entered the offices of the French publication Charlie Hebdo and fired sixty shots inside of three minutes. When the smoke cleared, eleven employees of the magazine and one building maintenance worker had been killed and eleven other people in the building had been injured. The “crime” for which these individuals were being punished was blasphemy. The magazine had offended Islamists by publishing images of Muhammad. It had done so often over the years, but Charlie Hebdo’s satire was not aimed exclusively at Islam. The magazine was an equal opportunity offender. It lampooned Christians, Jews, and many others with equal vigor.
No longer. Six months after the attack, Charlie Hebdo announcedthat it would stop publishing images of Muhammad. Around the same time, cartoonist Renald Luzier, who drew covers for Charlie Hebdo, announced that he, too, would stop drawing the Islamic prophet. Can we blame them?" Lees hier verder.